Publishing and Media

The firm’s attorneys have significant expertise in the publishing and media industries. We regularly represent publishing companies, magazine publishers, podcasters and podcasting production companies, television and film production companies, content distributors, authors and trade associations in a wide array of legal matters. Among the services we provide and matters with which we are involved are drafting and negotiation of industry specific contracts such as book publishing contracts, serialization contracts, production agreements, agent agreements and subsidiary rights agreements, licensing and distribution transactions, pre-publication review of manuscripts and articles, advice regarding defamation, privacy and publicity law, trusts and estates, intellectual property counseling on copyright and trademark issues, online content and distribution issues and litigation.