California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer
CALIFORNIA ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING LAWYER SEBASTIAN GIBSON
Making the Right Choice in California Entertainment Licensing Attorneys
The licensing of an artist’s or creative person’s work whether they be in the publishing field, can be the key that unlocks untold fortune for that individual, their business and for future endeavors. And California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can assist you with all of your licensing issues.
Not that they didn’t become rich and famous anyway, but think what The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, or Elvis could have done if the world that exists now in terms of marketing and licensing (as seen with products connected to Star Wars and Harry Potter) had existed then.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson specializes in entertainment licensing which comprises granting third parties the right to use names, likenesses, and images, of models, celebrities, and entertainers in the creation, sale and endorsement of products and services. With a history of representing celebrities and models for decades, if you’re looking for the best entertainment attorney for you, consider California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named one of the Top Lawyers of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 by Palm Springs Life Magazine. He’s been called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.” If you want a top entertainment lawyer on your side, call Sebastian Gibson. Call us today at (760) 776-1810.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
Whether you’re an aspiring artist or an established member within the entertainment industry, finding the right entertainment attorney to guide and develop your career is the best way not only to protect your interests but also to attain the recognition you deserve for your talents.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson offers artists in the area with over 40 years of representing entertainment clients and is ready to assist you in all of your entertainment licensing aspects. We can also help whether you need protection against those who would profit from the unauthorized use of your name or image in advertising or need copyright or trademark protection.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can scrutinize an endorsement deal, songwriter agreement, assist a filmmaker with film music licensing, seek damages for violations of your privacy and publicity rights, and prosecute those who would use your image without your authority in advertising to obtain profits that rightfully belong to you. We can review and negotiate a modeling agency contract, or draft any type of film production agreement that’s needed in the industry. We can draft artist management contracts, represent you in litigation, or simply provide advice in regards to your aspect of the entertainment industry. We stand ready to assist you in all of your endeavors.
In working with California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, you’re working with a entertainment attorney who has law degrees both in California and in Great Britain, who was a former musician who performed on the stage internationally and on national TV, the creator of a stage musical recorded in London, a published book author and a writer for California’s top two legal newspapers. He understands the unique difficulties creative people face today and the many ways talented people are taken advantage of.
With law degrees in both the U.S. and the U.K. and decades of practice in both the U.S. and internationally representing entertainment clients internationally and in California, Sebastian Gibson is the entertainment lawyer to call throughout California.
Today, California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is frequently asked to be interviewed on radio and TV for his expertise, his wit and humor. The author of thousands of articles on the internet, Sebastian Gibson has also written for the Los Angeles Daily Journal newspaper and the San Francisco Daily Journal and is the author of book published in 2012.
Now is when you need a California entertainment licensing lawyer most. Our goal is to protect you from commercial exploitation while ensuring you the maximum return on the selective licensing of your name, image and likeness to commercial products, services and activities.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson utilizes precise licensing agreements to limit the use of your copyrighted, trademarked or patented designs, creations and inventions, your creative expressions and works in limited geographical areas or markets for specific uses and restricted terms of duration in order to ensure that your image, likeness, name or creative works are not over marketed and maintain their exclusive appeal.
Where advantageous, we seek long term lasting and profitable licensing arrangements with increases in the rates of payment to you over time.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can assist you with all your licensing needs for film or TV in the U.S. and internationally.
If requested by our clients, we can maintain a close watch over the use of our client’s image, name or likeness and when necessary file litigation to protect their rights from over-zealous licensees or those who would misappropriate our client’s image or creative works.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
With over 40 years of experience both in London and in California as an entertainment attorney, California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to British Film and TV producers and how streaming services and platforms are affecting the UK film and industry and has written on this subject. There is currently nowhere that the changes brought about by streaming is having a bigger effect on a country’s film industry than Britain and the UK’s talent and producers, known for their excellence, have never been in more demand.
We can protect your film and television concepts and submissions with copyright and trademark protection, registrations with the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, with contracts and agreements, and with submissions by an experienced California entertainment attorney. Importantly, we also know what to look for in analyzing submission releases so a producer or writer does not waive important rights.
With the experience of California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson in the entertainment industry both as a writer and musician, we’re very familiar with all of the various ways in which film and TV projects are conceived and developed and we can assist a producer in the early creative stage as well. With experience in advertising as well, we can assist a producer later in writing the perfect pitch and preparing submission materials including show bibles and film lookbooks of the professional quality that’s expected today in the entertainment industry.
The submission process today is becoming more and more competitive with literally tens of thousands of producers competing to get their concept for a television series, limited episode TV series or reality show made and their film project financed. As a result, submission materials must be of the highest professional quality.
We’re also closely following the developments of the WGA lawsuit against four major talent agencies, their new Code of Conduct, the firing by WGA members of their talent agencies and the counter lawsuits by talent agencies against the WGA. We can advise producers with respect to packaging fees charged by talent agencies and how the lawsuit and firing of talent agencies by WGA members currently affects the talent agency packaging system currently still in place by most talent agencies.
In the creative stage of development, we can draft collaboration agreements, work for hire agreements, copyright assignments and other contractual agreements to ensure that a producer is the sole owner of all the underlying rights to their project and to ensure that when an E&O insurance legal opinion is requested by an insurer, they will be able to confirm the proper legal contracts have been signed with every participant in the creation and development of the project.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can assist a film or television producer to obtain development money and to structure a development money deal, film investments and we can review and negotiate a producer’s pre-sales and negative pick-up domestic and foreign distribution agreements.
We’ve reviewed and negotiated book and script options, life story agreements, shopping agreements and with our expertise in copyrights, trademarks and licensing, we can assist a producer in securing the rights to any of the underlying rights to their project.
With securing investor money so crucial to a producer, we can advise producers when it’s necessary to have an experienced securities lawyer prepare a private placement memorandum known as an offering to passive investors, the requirements for qualifying for an exemption from registration, and when an offering is not required when obtaining investments from accredited investors. We’re also familiar with California securities laws, venture capital investment and debt financing,
With decades of experience in corporate law and formations, California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson will explain the advantages and disadvantages of sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, limited and general partnerships and LLCs. We can also handcraft an LLC operating agreement to fit the structure and plans of a producer’s team for their umbrella LLC and create individual LLCs for each project which becomes ready for development.
We’ll help a producer develop a plan for submitting their film to the right film festivals for the producer’s film and for being prepared with an experienced festival team including sales agents, a website for the film, a Facebook page, trailers, a movie poster, and other materials in order to hit the ground running with a cohesive advertising and publicity campaign formulated in advance.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can also assist a producer to develop the most appropriate marketing plan for distribution for all of the various platforms and markets and advise them when it’s best to fragment distribution and retain certain areas of distribution for themselves. If a negative pick-up, pre-sales deal or minimum guarantee is not available or in a producer’s interest, we’ll advise a producer accordingly.
Having written on the changes streaming is having in the entertainment industry and changing strategies by streaming platforms, California entertainment attorney is particularly knowledgeable in the area of streaming VOD platforms and services, and we can advise a producer the best way to approach streaming services if a producer is interested in marketing a project to them. We’ll also advise a producer on the advantages and disadvantages of retaining an aggregator.
We can draft all of a producer’s production contracts and we are extremely knowledgeable in drafting, negotiating and reviewing actor contracts, and how to structure profit participation contracts to protect an actor’s back end points.
With our knowledge of the music industry, we’re also knowledgeable in the complex field of film music licensing, and drafting composer agreements, and music supervisor contracts.
When you need a California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson for any stage of a film or television project production, for any corporate matters or pre-production, production and post-production agreements, the right choice is California Entertainment Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.
Don’t Get Held Up By Unscrupulous People In The Entertainment Industry
The reputation of our clients is paramount. The last thing a celebrity wants is bad publicity as a result of the license of their name to a product manufactured in sweat shops by underage workers in dire conditions, a product which harms purchasers, or one which offends the public. Guarantees and indemnification clauses won’t suffice if the long-term reputation of a celebrity is dragged through the mud. Every effort is therefore made to protect against such situations in the choice of licensees and the obligations placed upon them in the licensing agreement.
If you’re looking for the right lawyer for your entertainment legal matter, consider California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.
California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has a prestigious history of helping individuals with their entertainment matters throughout California and internationally.
With law degrees in both California and in Great Britain, and decades of experience in California and internationally as well in areas such as trademark protection, Sebastian Gibson has been the attorney of choice for decades by individuals with the need of an experienced entertainment lawyer with the experience to handle matters in a swift and cost effective manner.
With offices in Palm Desert and Orange County, California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can in most situations meet with you on a day’s notice. Business and entertainment matters are handled at an hourly rate or a flat rate which we will endeavor to make affordable to your situation.
If you need a California Entertainment, Celebrity, Sports, Model or Literary Licensing Lawyer in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Orange County, or internationally, call the Law Firm of California Entertainment Licensing Lawyer Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810.
