Law and Video Podcast - new episode
By Gordon Firemark | March 25, 2008
The latest episode of The Law and Video Podcast is now available at http://www.lawandvideo.com.
This week we discussed:
News: Industry pushes for Copyright Prevention Law tied to college loan funding
- Live Call: Can I do anything with some old film footage I bought at a garage sale?
Email questions:
- How do I start an independent record label?
- How do I find and hire an entertainment lawyer?
- What can I show and what can’t I show when making a “Cops” style local TV show.
- Can an adult-video producer require participants to sign a confidentiality agreement? Can it be enforced?
- Blu-Ray licenses required for authoring discs? DRM and the DMCA.
The Law and Video podcast is a weekly live call-in question-and-answer audio programwhere I answer questions about legal and business issues facing video- and film-makers.
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The role of the attorney in an artist’s career.
By Gordon Firemark | December 22, 2007
Dante Marshall is an entertainment lawyer in Columbus, Ohio. This week, I read his blog post about the role of the attorney in an Artist’s career. I think it’s worthwhile reading for aspiring artists. What an attorney does and does not do.
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Writers on Strike
By Gordon Firemark | November 5, 2007
For the first time in nearly 20 years, members of the writers’ union, Writer’s Guild of America are on strike. The last strike, in May of 1988, lasted five months, costing the industry more than half a billion dollars.
Some shows, such as NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, which are written as events happen will have to shut down immediately, but most major TV series producers have a stockpile of scripts that will allow them to keep producing episodes until early next year.
Meanwhile, feature film producers will continue working through their own stockpiles of material.
Talks broke down last week, and attempts to reach a resolution resumed unsuccessfully over the weekend. But as of Monday morning, picket lines are replacing punchlines, as with strikers in red t-shirts carry signs reading “Writers Guild of America on Strike” outside all of the major production facilities, both in LA and New York, where shows like “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” are produced.
Stay tuned…
Topics: Entertainment law
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