Orange County Entertainment Lawyers provide a wealth of services to clients at the Law Firm of Sebastian Gibson. Entertainment attorneys are asked primarily to review contracts that an Orange County lawyer might review, but with the expertise of an entertainment attorney.

Even if you don’t live in a town with a professional football team like the area of Orange County, it is likely you still have other sport teams nearby and at the very least, amateur sports teams in your town, high school sports teams and that you and the players on those teams are probably sports fanatics. You may also have a legal issue in many of the sub-areas of sports law without even knowing it.

Few firms in the U.S. today in Orange County practice in the field of Sports and Entertainment Business Law. It requires a knowledge of entertainment law, intellectual property, sports brand development, professional regulations, advertising, marketing, anti-trust, broadcast and media law, sports sponsorship, corporate finance, labor law contract law, merchandising, employment law, contracts, copyright, trademark, licensing, estate planning, international law, anti-trust law and litigation, as we have in Orange County. 

In addition to having knowledge in those fields, it helps for an Orange County Sports and Entertainment Lawyer to have a strong background in international law, if not English law as well. Without this type of varied experience, a sports lawyer is limited in the service he or she can provide to the clients.

Clients at a sports and entertainment law firm serving Orange County such as ours are sports team owners, cities, athletes, stadium management companies, entertainers and sponsors. You will be dealing with clients such as product manufacturers, the media, banks, the USPTO, sports organizations, arbitrators and the courts.

If you are a true sports aficionado in Orange County or elsewhere, you will wish the business of sport had less to do with the law, but with each passing year it seems to have more rather than less.

The rules referees must now live by often makes it useful if they are lawyers in their spare time. As society becomes more and more concerned with fairness, we see greater use of replays, and less discretion given to the officials to call the game or to correct a mistaken call on their own.

Sports teams and their lawyers must constantly be vigilant to protect their trademarks and branding and spend as much time promoting their team and their sport as running the day to day operation.

Fortunately, in the end, the time and cost of sports business law attorneys are worth it, with the value of most sport teams rising year after year.

The opportunities in Orange County to get into sports business law are limited. Many more law students take courses in sports law than will ever have the chance to practice the little they learn in law school. But if the aspiring sports lawyer strives hard enough, they may break into this exciting area of law.

The attorneys with the Orange County entertainment law firm of Attorney Sebastian Gibson represents creative people as their entertainment attorney and must travel on a moment's notice.  Musicians, performers, published fiction and non-fiction authors, publishers, music composers and lyricists, television stations, producers, screenwriters, models and other talent in the entertainment field, call our southern California entertainment law firm from all over the U.S. for attorney and lawyer Sebastian Gibson to assist them in the drafting, negotiation, and review of entertainment contracts throughout the U.S.

The Sebastian Gibson Orange County California entertainment law firm and the entertainment attorneys and lawyers retained from time to time for each individual case, do not act as music, film or talent agents and do not arrange meetings for you with industry executives nor do they act in a managerial manner for your entertainment projects.

As an entertainment law firm, however, our entertainment law firm and the Orange County entertainment lawyers and attorneys with whom we work, represent clients and entertainment artists only as their entertainment attorneys and lawyers, concerning their various legal matters and with regard to contract drafting and negotiations.

At the Orange County California entertainment law offices of Sebastian Gibson, we know it's difficult to find trusted entertainment lawyers, respected entertainment attorneys or knowledgeable entertainment law firms who also have a knowledge of advertising, media and broadcast law. Having represented or contracted with numerous television stations throughout the state and in other states, and having dealt with advertising issues for over 25 years, Orange County entertainment lawyer Sebastian Gibson is ready to assist you in your creative endeavors.

At our Orange County entertainment law firm we understand the creative process. In addition to being an entertainment, publishing and advertising lawyer, Sebastian Gibson is also an accomplished musician and a literary agent in the U.S. and internationally.

Orange County California entertainment attorney Sebastian Gibson aggressively protects clients' interests to ensure that they receive their proper royalties and that their copyrights and trademarks are protected against infringement.

San Diego entertainment lawyer Sebastian Gibson has also dealt with First Amendment issues, protections and defenses raised by newspapers and their writers. As an entertainment attorney in Orange County, Sebastian Gibson has both prosecuted claims of and defended clients accused of defamation, libel and slander.

Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson also provides advice to hotel and restaurant owners, provides defense to amusement parks and assists and advises the creators and producers of video games and computer gaming clients in their intellectual property matters and acquisitions. Entertainment attorney and lawyer Sebastian Gibson has represented models and other artists in their publicity and privacy rights matters, contracts and in other intellectual property matters.

In terms of sports law, Orange County California entertainment lawyer Sebastian Gibson can advise you with respect to sponsorship and management agreements, multi-media, sportswear merchandising, sporting events and event management, advertising agreements, promotional agreements, branding, television production and broadcast agreements and joint entertainment ventures. Sebastian Gibson is also active in the area of law known as publicity and privacy rights and with the misappropriation of celebrity images in advertising.

As can be seen by the areas of law and the expertise of Orange County entertainment lawyer Sebastian Gibson discusses on other pages of this website, Sebastian Gibson also has considerable experience in the areas of copyright, trademark and service mark protection, intellectual property, business litigation and international law.

If you have an entertainment matter that needs the expertise of Orange County Entertainment Lawyers or of respected Entertainment Attorneys in Orange County, call Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson today for a consultation and let us help you in your sports and entertainment ventures and career.