Legal Mash-Ups: Three workshops on the legal business of in the film and television industry.
CLE Credit
10:15 am | Content Acquisition & Rights: It’s my story – no it’s mine and you can’t film it!
This panel will give an overview o the various ways producers and production companies get the rights to the stories they make into films and television programs. Topics include: copyrights, option contracts, work for hire and commission projects, bio-pic trends, life story rights, and more.
12:30 pm | Distribution Legalities: You need me to give you what to distribute my film?
This session will give an overview of the legal side of distribution – complying with a distribution memo, the three different deliverable categories and what each one consists of, some best practices to make the process easier, and more.
2:00 pm | Setting up Your Film Production Company as a Business