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Introduction

DWT's entertainment practice provides solution oriented legal services to our clients dealing with the wide breadth of complex and rapidly changing issues facing the entertainment, sports and media industries. We also advise clients in related areas including copyright, trademark, licensing, defamation and other First Amendment issues. With a significant presence in both New York City and Los Angeles, as well as San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest, DWT is well positioned to provide services in both the entertainment and technology centers of the country.

Our firm has long represented many prominent entertainment and media companies of all sizes as well as individual entertainers, artists and athletes. In an entertainment world that increasingly values cross-media knowledge, our experience in virtually all areas of this industry, from motion pictures to Broadway productions to computer games, allows us to provide valuable and prompt advice to our clients. In fact, many of our attorneys are published authors, musicians, former professional athletes, actors, writers, screenwriters, and artists.

 

Our attorneys represent a broad range of issues, including:
  • Attainment of rights acquisitions for entertainment productions in all media

  • Motion picture, television, home video/DVD and related financing, production and distribution

  • Production and financing for live theatrical productions on Broadway and beyond, including representation of a number of prominent producers, writers and composers

  • Streaming and download of music on the Internet

  • Music publishing issues

  • Licensing of famous fictional characters and trademarks in connection with a wide variety of goods and services including video games, toys and apparel

  • Trademark counseling, registration practice and dispute resolution

  • Copyright counseling, including joint authorship issues, termination of licenses, and work-for-hire issues

  • Athlete publicity campaigns

  • Radio station talent agreements

  • Print, on-line, radio and television syndication agreements

  • Sale of artwork and other matters affecting the visual arts

  • Development, distribution, licensing and marketing video games and board games

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Events and Meetings

Gamer Technology Law Conference
March 27-28, 2008 Beverly Hills, CA
Speaker: Kraig Baker

Masterpieces of Communications Law

Articles & Bulletins


FCC Orders Modify Approach to Televised Indecency and Profanity Omnibus Order Addresses Nearly 50 Programs; Others Propose Record $3.6 Million Fine for “Without a Trace” and Finalize $550,000 Fine for Janet Jackson Exposure [March 2006] read bulletin



Department Members


Anchorage
Jane Eckels

Los Angeles
Robyn Aronson
Jill R. Cohen
Camilo Echavarria
Jeff Glasser
Kelly S. Logue
Joshua Radis
Liam R. Roth
Henry J. Tashman
Kevin L. Vick
Alonzo Wickers IV

New York
R. A. Boose
M. Graham Coleman
Deirdre Davis
Edward J. Davis
Robert J. Driscoll
Maya Menendez
Alexandra Nicholson
Monica Pa
Bryan M. Tallevi

Portland
James F. Ambrose
Duane A. Bosworth
Ken Mitchell-Phillips

Seattle
Kraig L. Baker
Jane Eckels
Catherine Maxson
Marshall J. Nelson

Washington, D.C.
Maurita K. Coley
Liz Drogula
Rory Eastburg
Brian Nixon
David M. Silverman


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