Media and Entertainment
Squire Sanders’ communications lawyers work closely with our colleagues in media and entertainment law to assist clients with the revolutionary convergence of new technologies and delivery systems for multimedia content. What were formerly distinct and separate media – motion pictures, television, radio, cable, satellite, wireless, Internet, video and music – now fuse into multimedia, requiring creative and aggressive counsel in the areas of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation and intellectual property protection.
In such an innovative business climate, clients in mass media and entertainment demand lawyers with experience and creativity to help them meet and exceed their business objectives. Our communications, media and entertainment lawyers combine those assets to advise industry representatives on a wide array of issues. We draft and negotiate contracts for nearly all aspects of the entertainment and media industry, resolve conflicts and establish strategies for the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, and aid companies seeking to achieve regulatory compliance.
Our lawyers also help clients meet the increasing demands that today’s content and communications markets are making on all parts of the industry:
- Forming international co-productions
- Negotiating international sales and distribution of products
- Fulfilling bond insurance
- Negotiating format acquisition
- Selling remake rights
- Contracting with foreign artists
- Establishing joint ventures for the production and distribution of themed channels
Additionally, in conjunction with our converging technologies and communications practice groups, we have developed innovative international financing of audiovisual production projects and corporate structures to minimize royalty withholdings.