Much Shelist: client focused, forward thinking.
Full-service legal counsel, seven practice groups.

Entertainment Law

At Much Shelist, a number of our attorneys have developed significant experience in the legal issues facing individual artists and businesses involved in the motion picture, theater, television, animation, new media, and music publishing and recording industries. On behalf of these clients, we provide counseling in business development, collaborations, financing, intellectual property, production and distribution.

We advise clients with respect to:

  • acquisition of rights and properties
  • clearance of literary material
  • employment, recording and other contracts
  • license and merchandising agreements
  • litigation and dispute resolution
  • publishing agreements
  • risk assessments, including potential libel, copyright infringement, invasion of privacy and other claims
  • securing and enforcing trademark and copyright protection
  • strategic alliances