Entertainment Law
Music
Film
Television
Entertainment Finance & Investing
Intellectual Property
Theater
Print Media
Fashion
At Boddie & Associates we ensure that our clients are provided for on all fronts and situations. We help our clients navigate through the industry with confidence. We have the experience with large and complex major record labels and distribution companies. This allows us to assist in creating and negotiating all areas. We also have the knowledge of the independent record industry to make services including: signing dual-release agreements with major labels, drafting licensing deals, and negotiating distribution arrangements effortless.
We help to shape and maintain the careers of recording artists, producers, record and publishing company executives, managers, production companies, publishers and songwriters in the music sector. Our experienced attorneys draft and negotiate record, publishing, producer, management, distribution, touring, merchandising, corporate sponsorship, license and Internet agreements. We consult with artists and record publishing companies regarding their entertainment and Internet strategies and the protection of their intellectual property rights.
Our services include:
- Intra-Group Agreements
- Agency and Management Representation Agreements
- Music and Sampling Clearances;
- Advertising and Promotions
- Employment Agreements
- Live Engagement and Touring Agreement
- Management Agreements
- Producer and Production Agreements
- Royalty and Participation Audits
- Talent Agreements
- Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Boddie & Associates helps our clients along their career paths helping to formulate goals, while simultaneously helping to achieve them. Our legal experience and understanding of our clients' businesses and objectives enables us to give practical advice for prudent decision making. We have years of experience in the industry, marked by our close relationships with a multitude of actors, producers, directors, and other prominent members of major studios. These relationships aids us in creating the right production structure, acquiring rights, engaging talent, and negotiations of options, development and sequels. We specialize in Film Financing, Production and Distribution, including box office releases, acquisition of licenses, DVD sales, and royalty payments. By counseling on contract negotiations, employment agreements, copyright and trademark matters, we offer a multi-faceted approach to maintaining the careers of our clients.
Our services include:
* Book-to-film deals
* Protecting privacy and publicity rights for clients and their heirs
* Distribution Agreements
* Employment Agreements
* Management and Merchandising Agreements
* New Media and Communications
* Partnership, Producer and Production Agreements
* Royalty and Participation Audits
* Talent Agreements
* Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Boddie & Associates provides personal, flexible service to our clients and collaborate with our clients' agents and managers to help maximize results. We understand that every transaction and deal consists of multiple layers, and we take them all into consideration. We help clients plan out their careers, their wealth to ensure that all of their endeavors and investments are met with success. Our legal experience and understanding of our clients' businesses and objectives enables us to give practical advice for wise decision making. Our experience has helped us create and foster close relationships with a multitude of actors, producers, directors, and other prominent members of the field. We specialize in the newest trends in the television industry, including reality programming. We counsel on everything from incorporating to choosing the right production company to negotiating the distribution contracts. Our services include:
• Broadcast/Cable Network Television License Agreements
• Guild Arbitration Representation
• Protecting privacy and publicity rights for clients and their heirs
• Distribution Agreements
• Employment Agreements
• Management and Merchandising Agreements
• New Media and Communications
• Partnership, Producer and Production Agreements
• Royalty and Participation Audits
• Talent Agreements
• Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Entertainment Finance & Investing
Boddie & Associates represents individuals and businesses in the area of music, film, and fashion. We provide an exceptional entertainment practice to its clients in the areas of contract review, drafting, and negotiations; copyright and trademark applications and business planning. We represent many of the industries top achievers; from GRAMMY Award winning artist and producers, ACADEMY Award winning actors, and some of fashion’s top companies. In the past our entertainment law section has provided the utmost in personal service to all of our 200+ clients.
Boddie & Associates helps to shape and maintain the careers of recording artists, producers, record and publishing company executives, managers, production companies, publishers and songwriters in the music sector. Our experienced attorneys draft and negotiate record, publishing, producer, management, distribution, touring, merchandising, corporate sponsorship, license and Internet agreements. We consult with artists and record publishing companies regarding their entertainment and Internet strategies and the protection of their intellectual property rights.
We offer our clients our collective expertise and experience to help them learn, grow, and realize their goals.
KEY SERVICES INCLUDE:
•Artist management and representation
•Artist recording agreements and producer agreements
•Book Publishing Negotiation and Agreements
•Broadway - Live Stage Productions
•Celebrity Endorsements and Sponsorship Agreements
•Charitable fund raising events
•Employment Agreements
•Entertainment facility development and financing
•Film Financing, Production and Distribution
•Internet-based Entertainment Ventures
•Investment and Financing Agreements
•Joint-venture, P&D and Distribution Agreements
•Live Engagement and Touring Agreements
•Management and Merchandising Agreements
•Music Publishing and Administration Agreements
•New Media and Communications
•Partnership, Producer and Production Agreements
•Recording Agreements
•Royalty and Participation Audits
•Talent Agreements
•Television Financing, Production and Syndication
•Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
The intellectual property field is constantly being redefined, and Boddie & Associates stays at the forefront of the issues, so we can continue to counsel and litigate cases involving the latest in technological developments.
Litigation is one of many options available to clients as part of their offensive and defensive strategies. Our litigation sector includes state law litigation over trade secrets, false advertising and other unfair competition and business practices as well as proceedings before the Patent Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Intellectual property litigation is about individual rights and the protection of those rights. We represent and protect the rights of clients involved in film, music, television, theater, and publishing. For years, we have been involved in the entertainment industry. We take that experience, and use it as a foundation for our litigation skills. We utilize both our experience in the industry along with our extensive knowledge of the law to provide clients the best service on the issues of:
• Copyright
• Trademark
• Patent
• Theft of Idea
• Rights of privacy/publicity
• Unfair competition
• Trade Secrets
Our attorneys represent producers, playwrights, directors, designers, theatre owners, motion picture studios, licensing organizations, theatrical agents, not-for-profit theatres, and investors with respect to Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and touring productions. We provide all of the legal services necessary in relation to theatrical productions, including negotiations for agreements for stage rights, service, and investment.
•Book to Film Deals
•Joint-venture, P&D and Distribution Agreements
•Employment Agreements
•Management and Merchandising Agreements
•New Media and Communications
•Partnership Agreements
•Royalty and Participation Audits
•Talent Agreements
•Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Print Media
In the face of emerging technologies and media, print media is an industry full of opportunities and growth. Along with those opportunities, comes the need for legal advice and representation. Boddie & Associates offers services in the growing internet industry as well as other forms of printed media. We deal with publishing matters, advertising, licensing, acquisition of rights, First Amendment matters, unauthorized use of images and other protected material, online commercial ventures, web design, rights of personality/privacy/publicity issues, and all aspects of website formation such as incorporation and registering URLs.
* Book to Film Deals
* Joint-venture, P&D and Distribution Agreements
* Employment Agreements
* Management and Merchandising Agreements
* New Media and Communications
* Partnership Agreements
* Royalty and Participation Audits
* Talent Agreements
* Trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution and litigation
Because we have offices in the country’s most fashionable cities, we can offer clients access to our resources. We have the ability to connect with our contacts from coast to coast, north to south, giving us the chance to track business trends impacting owners and investors in this dynamic and fast-paced sector. We understand the life spans of the newest and most innovative business aspects. Our goal is to help our clients be responsible for setting those trends. We offer counsel and advice on the interrelated sectors of fashion, entertainment, media and finance, such as:
•Licensing, endorsement and co-branding transactions
•Intellectual property protection and enforcement
•International and domestic sourcing and distribution arrangements
•Corporate finance deals
•Showroom and sales representative transactions
•Litigation and regulatory actions
•Advertising and promotional matters
•Foreign trade
•Labor and employment
•Real estate and retail leasing transactions
•Asset valuation and leveraging
•Joint ventures
•Structured finance
•Mergers and acquisitions
•IPOs
•Leveraged buyouts
•Restructuring