The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law: Dealmaking
Jay Shanker, Kirk Schroder, Paul Supnik, Jonathan Reichman
Hardcover
(Juris Publishing, Inc., July 1, 2018)
The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law (EGEL): The two-volume set, comprised of both the Dealmaking and Intellectual Property volumes, is the go-to desk-side resource for legal practitioners and other professionals involved in entertainment industry transactions. Executives, investors, financial advisors as well as entrepreneurs seeking to enter the entertainment industry will find these handbooks equally useful. Created by a dream team of practitioners who work in the industry in leading law firms and entertainment companies, this set now offers readers the unprecedented opportunity to benefit from the business acumen and expertise of top lawyers from all sectors of the entertainment industry. The Guides offer a broad survey of the key business and legal principles at the core of the entertainment industry transactions. The first volume, EG2EL: Dealmaking, addresses the issues that typically arise in the practice of entertainment law contracting, and discusses the practical and ethical roles of the lawyer and other talent representatives in industry dealmaking. Most importantly, it provides inside information on practical aspects of how to make projects happen. Eighty-four contract forms and sample documents, provided free with the purchase of the dealmaking volume, acquaint readers with major agreements used in the field. The authors analyze the key features of these agreements, discuss the most effective negotiating strategies to employ, cover the most important provisions of the contracts and unlock the logic behind them. The second volume, EG2EL: Intellectual Property, provides a broad survey overview of Copyright, Trademark and Publicity and Privacy Law, illuminating the key intellectual property rights concerns that are the cornerstones of virtually every transaction in the entertainment industry. Detailed but accessible, EG2EL: Intellectual Property, helps you navigate fundamental intellectual property rights issues in the key fields of entertainment. Written not only for lawyers in the industry, but to help their clients (and prospective clients) supplement an actual consultation with a seasoned professional, these essential Guides will quickly prove to readers there is no better one-stop resource to be found in the marketplace.