Proposed SEC Exemptive Order makes Finders who follow new proposed rules Eligible for success-based fees. by Marc Jacobson How Filmmakers Currently Raise Capital. Often, when a filmmaker starts raising money for a film, she enters into one or more finder’s fee agreements. These agreements typically provide that...
By Marc Jacobson, Esq. When Governor Cuomo signed into law the budget for New York State on April 3, 2020, not only did New York become the first state to address federal legislation regarding the CARES Act, which provides financial relief to businesses and others as...
Help your clients make money from their works This is a big year for copyright in the United States. For the first time in 20 years, on Jan. 1, 2019, works first published in the United States in the early 20th century fell into the public...
A prominent photographer was engaged by the defendants to create images to use in a certain specified manner. At the conclusion of the term of the license agreement, the defendants continued to use the images beyond the scope of the license, and for purposes not...
Film remains a director’s medium, considering that the director will always give shape and vision to the writer’s words. Film remains a director’s medium, considering that the director will always give shape and vision to the writer’s words. Further, the director is frequently involved in the...
The grand scheme regarding the term of copyright protection in the U.S., for the first time in 20 years, is in full bloom. On January 1, 2019, works first published in or before 1923 fell into the public domain – making them free to copy...
In a very unusual move, in support of its writer members, during this period when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has asked its members to fire their agents, the WGA last night agreed to pay to managers and lawyers of writers, the fees...
By: Marc Jacobson, Esq. Don’t ask for an applicant’s salary history, whether for you or your client, when interviewing that applicant for employment in New York City. You were asked to represent a film production to take place in NYC. As part of that engagement, you were asked...
By: Marc Jacobson The Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, and Co-President of The Actor’s Studio, Harvey Keitel sought to enforce an offer made to him to appear in what seems to be a commercial for E*Trade. Although Keitel’s agent required that whatever offer was submitted to...
By Marc Jacobson An appellate court in New York held recently that a plaintiff, representing himself, who asserts the defendant knowingly produced a materially and substantially fictitious biography about the plaintiff, without the plaintiff’s consent, states a claim for violation of New York’s right of privacy...