Entertainment

Rosen Feig & Golland LLP represents a wide variety of writers, actors, directors, producers, production companies, distributors, sales agents, financiers, animators, authors, and journalists in film, television, publishing, Internet, and theater. We have extensive experience representing talent and other entertainment clients (on a percentage, flat fee or hourly basis). Our work encompasses both film and television, as well as other entertainment/digital media areas including Internet and wireless exploitation.

We perform a wide variety of entertainment legal services for our clients, including providing development and production legal services, structuring, negotiating, documenting, film and television financing transactions, and acquisitions and distribution legal services.

Rosen Feig & Golland works to strategically improve their clients position and standing in the entertainment industry, leveraging resources and relationships to assist clients in growing their assets and achieving their strategic goals. We offer entertainment business consulting to clients in many instances much before the legal work begins.

We also work with entertainment businesses, including management companies and agencies, negotiating and drafting documentation to protect a company's or an individual's position in any entertainment related transaction. Our attorneys help artists, writers, and producers protect screenplays, teleplays, novels, works of art, and other creations. Finally, Rosen Feig & Golland LLP services the non-entertainment legal requirements of their clients in conjunction with co-counsel in all business and litigation areas.

Intellectual Property

Rosen Feig & Golland LLP, works with clients to protect their intellectual property assets. These assets may be logos, marketing materials, business plans, or methods of operating. We help artists and writers protect works of art, screenplays, novels and other original creations.

We have extensive experience navigating the state and federal intellectual property laws and can advise clients on the filing of appropriate documents to protect valuable assets, and assist clients in the development of Intellectual Property Protection Plans.

An Intellectual Property Protection Plan might include policies and procedures for:

• Trade Secret protection for customer lists, formulas, patterns, techniques or processes;
• Copyright Registration and maintenance for written, graphic, or other artistic works;
• Trademark Registration and maintenance for distinctive business names, product names, logos, tag-lines or company phrases; and
• Domain Name registration and maintenance.

An Intellectual Property Protection Plan may also include the development and implementation of entry and exit strategies for employees, including use of confidentiality and non-competition agreements, and guidelines for a company's presentation to outside groups. In doing so, we work closely with employment lawyers and other professionals to ensure our clients are protected.

The firm assesses a client's licensing needs; negotiates, drafts and maintains documents such as licensing agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and non-complete agreements; and provides advice in evaluating the manner in which licensees may use a client's intellectual property. In the event that intellectual property infringements occur, we draft cease and desist communications, advise clients as to their litigation options, and consult with litigation counsel. Finally, we work with clients to evaluate and protect the intellectual property issues in all areas of practice (please see Entertainment, and Publishing headings in this web site).

Business, Corporate, and Securities

With an effective combination of business judgment and legal skill, we help companies of all sizes with corporate formation, acquisitions, divestitures, investments and strategic planning. We bring sound business judgment to our counsel on issues from capital markets to corporate governance. We often serve as general counsel for many clients, advising them on legal issues encountered in everyday business operations as well as securities compliance.

Rosen Feig & Golland LLP works with a wide range of business, many of which are creative and art-related, to choose the appropriate business entity, form the entity, and draft business documents and marketing plans. In doing so, we work closely with top tax advisors, CPAs, and business managers to ensure our clients are getting the best overall advice for their specific business and corporate needs.

We emphasize efficient and economical solutions for small business clients, and maintain long-term relationships as we help them to build and grow effectively.

Rosen Feig & Golland  LLP works closely with established companies to:

• Set up, maintain or modify corporate structures;
• Develop intellectual property protection programs;
• Add new owners or acquire other businesses;
• Sell ownership interests or assets; and
• Handle a wide range of internal management/employer-employee issues including preparing employment agreements and employee manuals and policy handbooks.

We also work with clients to create or modify internal business practices, communications policies or documentation to protect a company's or an individual's position in any transaction. Such documentation might include:

• Non-disclosure, non-complete and/or non-solicitation agreements;
• Independent contractor and employment agreements;
• Technology development and licensing agreements; and
• Master service agreements.

We have experience in contract negotiations, drafting and management for business relationships with suppliers, customers, agents, and strategic alliances.

Finally, the implementation of business solutions may include the use of top outside consultants in areas such as technology, human resources, graphic design, marketing, insurance, tax and financial planning and/or banking issues. Rosen Feig & Golland LLP, maintains relationships with these professionals and can assist clients in these areas.

 Publishing

Rosen Feig & Golland LLP assists writers and publishers in the achievement of successful print and publishing projects. We have extensive experience representing established authors, academics, journalists, freelance writers, art directors and others. We work with our clients to negotiate publishing agreements, work for hire agreements, and other contracts for book, magazine, or literary publishing.

We advise on terms and royalty structures, and also assist in registering copyright to protect literary and artistic work. The attorneys also advise publishers and work with literary agents to structure business relationships. The firm's entertainment law practice represents screenwriters, book authors, and others in the entertainment and media fields (see Entertainment heading in the Rosen Feig & Golland LLP, web site).

We are often invited to lecture and publish on issues of fair use, involving the quotation or citation of copyrighted or trademarked images, words, or other material. We can advise writers or publishers in these areas, as well as assist in the resolution of disputes involving fair use of copyrighted works.

The firm will arrange to review documents on a flat-fee, percentage, or hourly basis, depending on the nature of the transaction.

 Digital Media

Digital media, such as the internet and mobile technology, is the future of how the public views entertainment content. Rosen Feig & Golland LLP counsels clients who are working on the cutting edge of digital media, internet, and mobile distribution and exploitation of entertainment products. In this new frontier the standard clearance, rights acquisition, and rights management issues do not apply. The boundaries of digital media are expanding daily and our attorneys are at the forefront of this expansion with experience in the fields of wireless media, digital interactive media, and high-tech start-ups. This experience in digital media, coupled with the firm's extensive experience in intellectual property (see Intellectual Property heading of the Rosen, Feig & Golland LLP website) allows the firm to work with our clients to defend their rights and expand their opportunities in a constantly changing legal and technological landscape.

Rosen, Feig & Golland LLP works with clients to develop;

Rights acquisition, licensing, and protection plans that are exclusively for digital media distribution, or incorporate digital media distribution into an existing rights exploitation business plan

Business planning and strategy for digital media exploitation and licensing of original content

Business planning for digital media companies from formation, strategic planning, licensing, and obtaining financing.

The firm has experience handling international matters as well as U.S. digital media issues.