Sports, Media & Entertainment Services

As the realm of entertainment and media evolves, Nichole Badger counsels her clients on how to develop and protect their businesses, ideas, and brand. Each client presents a unique and exciting opportunity to create legal and business strategies to meet your specific needs. Nichole Badger provides advice on industry specific matters, including content development, talent representation, media production and distribution, financings and corporate transactions.

Services provided include the following areas:

General Representation:

·         personal management

·         contract negotiation & review 

·         business formation & business plans

·         intellectual property (trademarks/copyrights)

·         brand and co-brand development

·         advertising & endorsements

·         marketing & special event planning 

Motion Pictures/Television/Theatre

·         representing producers, writers, actors, directors, and crafts-persons

·         production , finance and distribution agreements

·         structuring production and financing entities

·         investor financing arrangements

·         option agreements

·         life story rights agreements

·         rights clearance

·         title searches and interpretation

·         privacy, publicity and defamation issues

·         e&o reviews

·         union and guild matters

Literary/Magazine & Book Publishing

·         copyright & trademark

·         electronic rights and the Internet

·         fair use, work-for-hire, permissions, and public domain

·         co-author, publishing and agency contracts

 
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Music

·         representing record labels, music publishers, producers, recording artists and songwriters

·         negotiating and drafting music licenses, recording and producing agreements

·         touring-related agreements

·         songwriting and publishing agreements

·         distribution agreements

·         producer and management agreements

·         synchronization licenses

·         master use licenses

Interactive Media/Internet

·         represent web service providers, ISP’s, and content providers.

·         licensing and delivery of digital information, music, and interactive entertainment

·         contract & compliance services for web site operators

·         content licensing agreements

·         site development and production agreements

·         privacy, publicity and defamation issues