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The pocket lawyer for filmmakers [electronic book] : a legal toolkit for independent producers / Thomas A. Crowell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Burlington, MA : Focal Press, 2011.Edition: 2nd edISBN:
  • 0240813189 (pbk.)
  • 9780240813189 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Getting Started; Development; Getting the Rights; Financing; Preproduction; PRODUCTION; The Production Office; Legal Issues on the Set; Shooting Permits; Child Actors; Intellectual Property; Shooting Schedules; Location Damage; Personal Injury; Transportation and Accomodations; Overtime and Overages; POSTPRODUCTION; Editing; Music Licensing; Reshoots and Doubling; Looping and ADR; Animation, Titles, and Special Effects; Laboratory Agreements; DISTRIBUTION; Distributors; Chain of Title and Deliverables; Net Profits; Royalties, Accounting, and Audits; Marketing and Promotion; Ancillary Rights; Assignment of Rights; LEGAL TAILOR; Appendix A, Contracts; Appendix B, Intellectual Property Law, Appendix C, Business Entities; Legal Resources; Index .
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

* How can you use a state's film tax credits to fund your film? SEE PAGE 63.

* You have an idea you want to pitch to a production company; how do you safeguard your concept? SEE PAGE 77.

* How can you fund your production with product placement? SEE PAGE 157.

* How do you get a script to popular Hollywood actors and deal with their agents? SEE PAGE 222.

Find quick answers to these and hundreds of other questions in this new edition of The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers. This no-nonsense reference provides fast answers in plain English-no law degree required! Arm yourself with the practical advice of author Thomas Crowell, a TV-producer-turned-entertainment-lawyer.

This new edition features:

* New sections on product placement, film tax credits and production incentive financing, Letters of Intent, and DIY distribution (four-walling, YouTube, Download-to-own, Amazon.com, iTunes, and Netflix)

* Updated case law

* Even more charts and graphics to help you find the information you need even more quickly.

This book is the next best thing to having an entertainment attorney on retainer!

DIY distribution (four-walling, YouTube, Download-to-own, Amazon.com, iTunes, and Netflix)

* Updated case law

* Even more charts and graphics to help you find the information you need even more quickly.

This book is the next best thing to having an entertainment attorney on retainer!

Machine generated contents note: Getting Started; Development; Getting the Rights; Financing; Preproduction; PRODUCTION; The Production Office; Legal Issues on the Set; Shooting Permits; Child Actors; Intellectual Property; Shooting Schedules; Location Damage; Personal Injury; Transportation and Accomodations; Overtime and Overages; POSTPRODUCTION; Editing; Music Licensing; Reshoots and Doubling; Looping and ADR; Animation, Titles, and Special Effects; Laboratory Agreements; DISTRIBUTION; Distributors; Chain of Title and Deliverables; Net Profits; Royalties, Accounting, and Audits; Marketing and Promotion; Ancillary Rights; Assignment of Rights; LEGAL TAILOR; Appendix A, Contracts; Appendix B, Intellectual Property Law, Appendix C, Business Entities; Legal Resources; Index .

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Getting Started
  • Development
  • Getting the Rights
  • Financing
  • Preproduction
  • Production
  • The Production Office
  • Legal Issues on the Set
  • Shooting Permits
  • Child Actors
  • Intellectual Property
  • Shooting Schedules
  • Location Damage
  • Personal Injury
  • Transportation and Accomodations
  • Overtime and Overages
  • Postproduction
  • Editing
  • Music Licensing
  • Reshoots and Doubling
  • Looping and ADR
  • Animation, Titles, and Special Effects
  • Laboratory Agreements
  • Distribution
  • Distributors
  • Chain of Title and Deliverables
  • Net Profits
  • Royalties, Accounting, and Audits
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Ancillary Rights
  • Assignment of Rights
  • Legal Tailor
  • Appendix A Contracts
  • Appendix B Intellectual Property Law
  • Appendix C Business Entities
  • Legal Resources
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Former reporters for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos have been writing about Virginia for more than fifty years. Rex Bowman has written for Time, the Washington Times, and New York Times Upfront. Carlos Santos has covered stories for the New York Times and People Magazine as well as for the Associated Press.

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