Agreements with Artists and Advisors

My practice also includes the representation of talent in all areas of the entertainment industry, as well as advisors, managers, and other professionals who work with talent, in negotiating a variety of personal agreements and arrangements central to the talent’s career. These services include a wide array of matters, such as:

Arrangements between the artist and various professionals who will assist the artist in his or her career

The general representation of managers and talent agencies or artists

Arrangements between artists to collaborate with one another on projects or in performances

Artists performance engagements

Marketing and branding of an artist, including merchandising and advertising proposals

Compliance with applicable guild and union requirements applicable to the artist

Entity structuring for artists, including loan out companies

Employment arrangements of artists in all areas of the entertainment industry applicable to them.

Issues involving the employment and representations of minors.

This representation includes, among other things, preparing and negotiating:

Management agreements between managers and artists

Talent agent agreements

Agreements between artists and other providers of professional services to artists

Band agreements between musical artists, including entity formation and governance documents, as well as splits between members

Agreements between artists and content providers in the applicable areas of the entertainment industry (music, film, television, literature, theater, internet/digital media, etc.)

Collaboration agreements between artists for various types of entertainment related projects

Multiple rights deals

Merchandise agreements

Network agreements/YouTube (artists)

Artist loan out company formation

Celebrity endorsement and advertising agreements

Artist infomercial agreement

Work for hire agreements

I also have represented artists who perform primarily in social media settings and who rely primarily on social media advertising sharing arrangements, branding deals and networking arrangements.