Media & Entertainment

Our attorneys advise creators, brands, producers, studios, platforms, and investors operating at the forefront of culture, technology, and commerce. We work with clients across creative markets, from film, television, streaming, and live events to interactive and digital media, helping them finance, develop, protect, distribute, and monetize content in a rapidly evolving legal and technological landscape.

As entertainment continues to converge with technology, social platforms, and data‑driven business models, our team provides clear, business‑oriented counsel grounded in deep industry experience. We understand how content is created today, often at digital speed, and how legal risk, intellectual property, and brand value must be managed in real time.

Built for Creative Markets and Emerging Technology

Our practice is designed for modern entertainment businesses, including creators whose studios may be laptops, livestreams, or festival stages, as well as established companies operating across multiple platforms. We advise investors, creators, distributors and brands throughout the lifecycle of content financing, development, production, distribution and monetization.

By pairing traditional entertainment law principles with a sophisticated understanding of emerging technology, we help clients turn creative ideas into scalable, sustainable businesses, without losing sight of artistic vision or speed to market.

Representative Content & Industries

Our Media & Entertainment Law team assist clients with:

• Interactive and Experiential Media: Video games, AR/VR and immersive experiences, websites and applications, digital art, user-generated content, interactive entertainment, and experiential activations.
• Traditional and New Media Audiovisual Productions: Scripted and unscripted productions, including film, television, documentaries, reality and competition programming, animation, podcasts, streaming content, digital media, and creator-driven content.
• Advertising, Promotions & Sponsorships: Advertising compliance, influencer programs and one-off engagements, sponsorships, endorsements, promotions and contests, branded content, appearances, and digital replicas
• Live and Virtual Events: Event finance, production, venue and vendor agreements, ticketing, sponsorships, and risk management for events, festivals, esports, and performances
• Publishing and Art: Book and magazine publishing, art sales and consignment, art rentals, galleries, online marketplace, and museums

Representative Services

Our Media & Entertainment Law team advise on:

• Financing: Representing investors, producers, studios, production companies, and other media and entertainment businesses in single-project and multi-project financings.
• Development and Production: All manner of transactions with respect to securing underlying rights, attaching talent, shopping projects, pre-production, production, post-production, and legal delivery
• Exhibition, Distribution, Acquisition, and Sale: All manner of transactions involving the exhibition, publication, distribution, dissemination, acquisition, sale, licensing and other monetization of content
• Intellectual Property & Brand Protection: Copyright and trademark registration; patent procurement services; trade secret protection; chain-of-title analysis; portfolio management; IP strategy, dispute resolution, and rights enforcement 
• Media & Content Risk: From early stage advising through prepublication review of content, our attorneys help clients avoid defamation, violations of the right of publicity and privacy, and intellectual property infringement, among other risks
• Data Privacy & Community Governance: Advising creators, platforms, publishers, and brands on data privacy compliance, consumer protection requirements, online community management, platform terms and policies, user-generated content issues, moderation practices, digital marketing compliance, and the collection, use, and protection of consumer data
• Employment: Counseling production companies, studios, agencies, creators, and brands on talent and independent contractor relationships, employment agreements, workplace policies, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, workplace investigations, and labor issues arising in creative and production environments
• Litigation: Representing clients in disputes arising throughout the media and entertainment lifecycle, including intellectual property, contract, licensing, royalty, and ownership disputes; business tort claims; rights of publicity and privacy matters; defamation claims; and other commercial litigation

Connected to Sports and Beyond

Our Media & Entertainment practice works closely with the firm’s Sports capabilities, reflecting the increasing overlap among sports, media rights, live events, sponsorships, influencer/brand ambassador programs, gaming, and digital content. This integrated approach allows us to support clients whose work spans entertainment, technology, and experiential media in an increasingly connected marketplace.