The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law: Dealmaking

The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law: Dealmaking, is the go-to desk-side resource for legal practitioners involved in entertainment industry transactions. Executives, investors, financial advisors as well as entrepreneurs seeking to enter the entertainment industry will find this handbook equally useful. Created by a dream team of practitioners who work in leading industry law firms and companies, this volume offers readers an unprecedented opportunity to benefit from the business acumen and expertise of top lawyers in the many industry sectors covered by this volume.

The EG2EL: Dealmaking volume offers a broad survey of the key business and legal transactions at the core of entertainment law dealmaking, while also providing detailed information. From Book Publishing through to Motion Pictures to Music and Television through all the key industry fields The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law: Dealmaking addresses the issues that typically arise in the practice of entertainment law and the practical and ethical roles of the lawyer involved in industry dealmaking. Most importantly, the Guide provides inside information on the practical aspects of how to make projects happen. Eighty-four contract forms and sample documents acquaint readers with the major agreements used in the field, and are provided free with the purchase of the EG2EL: Dealmaking volume. The authors analyze their key features, discuss the most effective negotiating strategies to employ, cover the most important provisions of the contracts and unlock the logic behind them. Written to take the place of an actual consult with a seasoned professional, the Guide will quickly prove to readers there is no better one-stop resource to be found in the marketplace.

In addition, the companion second volume, The Essential Guide to Entertainment Law: Intellectual Property, may be purchased with the Dealmaking volume as a set at the featured discounted price. The EG2EL: IP volume examines the fundamental intellectual property law principles and issues of copyright, trademark, unfair competition and rights of publicity, which are the foundation for a substantial part of the industry's functioning. EG2EL: IP provides a concise but comprehensive road map to the intellectual property law landscape most relevant to entertainment industry transactions to establish the parameters of those underlying rights essential to secure most industry project financing.

To paraphrase renowned industry attorney Peter Dekom from his introduction to these volumes, the entertainment industry offers huge rewards to the successful, but perhaps has never been more perilous a business for the uninitiated. The information available in these volumes can help serious creatives, entrepreneurs, executives, and legal professionals survive and successfully navigate these industry landscapes. Rich in information, broad in scope, focused on what you need to know, the volumes will repay the purchaser many times over giving you the information and resources you need throughout the course of your professional practice or entertainment careers.