About Us
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
- Why It’s So Hard to Win a “Hollywood-Stole-My-Idea” CaseIt is one of Hollywood’s most persistent lawsuits: an aspiring writer claims to have sent a screenplay, treatment, or pitch to a studio, only to see a suspiciously similar movie appear a few years later. The similarities can sometimes sound striking. Yet these cases are extraordinarily difficult to win, as a recent federal court decision in Ryder v. C...Read more
Media News
- No Fault10/12 - Including a plaintiff's response to allegedly defamatory statements in an article has led to an early dismissal for failure to plead negligence in a recent defamation case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against the firm's client, The Independent. In Heritage Ministries v. Independent Digital News & Media, ...Read more