Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP's (Liner) entertainment and media litigators are experienced in the entire spectrum of litigation issues that arise in the film, television, music and multimedia industries, including:
- Talent contracts
- Actor series renegotiation
- Relationships between or among talent agencies, managers and artists
- Oral contract formation and interpretation
- Executive disengagements
- Contingent compensation and vertical integration
- Rights ownership and licensing
- Cutting rights and other creative rights
- Screen credits
- Motion picture financing and distribution
- Name and likeness usage
- Copyright and state law idea and authorship
- Injunction practice regarding exclusive property rights and services
- File-sharing, domain name and other Internet and multimedia disputes
- Talent guild residual compensation, creative rights and credit arbitration
- Writers Guild of America credit determination process
- Recording industry royalties
- Entertainment industry employment
- Representation of advertisers, agencies and brand managers in matters concerning the legal consequences of advertising and marketing campaigns
The Entertainment and Media Group has successfully represented individual and institutional clients engaged in a wide range of activities in the entertainment industry, including writers, directors, producers, actors, recording artists, on-camera talent agencies and managers, and independent production and distribution companies. Our clients' cases have taken us before state and federal courts and the arbitral panels of the Writers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, American Arbitration Association, American Film Market Association, and the California Labor Commissioner.