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We are a boutique media and entertainment law firm, with over one hundred years of combined experience litigating cases, negotiating deals, and advising clients. We handle defamation, privacy, copyright, and trademark matters; provide newsgathering, copyright and trademark counseling; conduct pre-publication, pre-broadcast, and title clearance; prepare fair use and E&O opinion letters; negotiate production, development, access and participant agreements; draft appearance, materials and location releases; and advise influencers and endorsers. Our clients include the country’s leading news and information providers, producers and content developers, celebrity and entertainment publications, filmmakers, artists, writers, and many other creative individuals and entities.
Media Matters Newsletter
- When Courts Punish Journalists, the Public SuffersThe First Amendment gives every member of the public the right to access court records and proceedings. As the Supreme Court has held, journalists play a critical role in exercising that right to inform the public – even if they’ve received material from someone who broke the law by doing so (remember the "Pentagon Papers” case?). So, when a fe...Read more
Media News
- Chatbots and free speech5/29 - A Florida federal judge has allowed a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI, but has rejected the defendants’ argument that their chatbots are protected under the First Amendment—at least for now. The suit alleges that a Character.AI chatbot engaged in emotionally and sexually abusiv...Read more