Entertainers, broadcasters and professional athletes face unique legal and business issues for which Rhoads & Sinon LLP has an experienced practice group dedicated to guiding such talent through these complex and highly specialized matters.
We represent a diverse group of both companies and individual clients in the entertainment and sports industries, including national recording artists, screenwriters, independent filmmakers, authors, television and radio personalities, and individual professional athletes in the sports of football, baseball and hockey. We advise and counsel clients on contract drafting, negotiation and enforcement; corporate and transactional matters; licensing and marketing opportunities; protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights; Internet and new media rights; privacy and defamation matters; and litigation and labor and employment matters.
Among the recent projects we have handled include the formation of corporate entities for engaging in the entertainment and sports fields; acquisition, licensing and protection of intellectual property rights for entities in the film industry; negotiation and enforcement of employment agreements for musicians and radio and television personalities; negotiation and enforcement of individual player contracts in the National Football League; and litigation to protect and recover Internet domain names for media entities.
Recently, on behalf of our clients in the recording industry, we have negotiated, drafted, and provided advice in the following areas:
- Band Operating Agreements;
- A&R Agreements;
- Label-Shopping Contracts;
- Performance Agreements;
- Management Contracts;
- Artwork Agreements;
- Musician Release Agreements;
- Record Label Contracts;
- Merchandising Agreements; and
- Publishing Deals.
For more information please visit the Rhoads & Sinon LLP Entertainment & Sports Law Group
website.
Our representative clients include multi-platinum artists LIVE, Tantric, Brett Scallions (Fuel, Riders on the Storm, Circus Diablo), and Kevin Miller (Fuel, Fosterchild, Tantric), as well as Bret Alexander (Top 10 Billboard artists The Badlees and The Cellarbirds), multi Grammy award-winning New Orleans musician and major motion picture actor Chris Thomas King, and critically acclaimed artists Simone (daughter of legendary jazz singer Nina Simone), Fosterchild, Pan.a.ce.a, and The Niki Barr Band.
