Entertainment Law
Detroit & Bloomfield Hills, MI Entertainment Law Firm
Howard Hertz, Joe Bellanca, and the team of lawyers at Hertz Schram have built a reputation as Michigan’s leaders in the area of entertainment and media law. Hertz Schram has been representing and advocating for artists and entertainers in Michigan and across the country for four decades, providing strategic and customized legal representation to meet the needs of our individual, corporate, educational, and automotive clients with respect to their entertainment and media-related needs. Our clients include recording artists, writers, musicians, radio and television personalities, record labels, music festivals and venues, music publishing and licensing companies, fashion designers, novelists, filmmakers, production companies, advertising and creative agencies, social media influencers and all others who create, perform, or distribute creative works.
Bloomfield Hills, MI Media Attorneys & Detroit Entertainment Lawyers
Hertz Schram’s entertainment and media law team offers practical advice that provides clients with a sense of security and comfort throughout their entire career. We take time to learn about you, what you do, the art you create, the music you write or perform, the films you make, and how we can protect your incredible creations and assist you in achieving your career goals. We view things from both business and legal perspectives, advising clients on business and personal decisions that create long lasting effects and successful opportunities.
Our attorneys have guided the careers and represented Grammy award winners and nominees, Olympic Gold medalists, multi-platinum selling artists, songwriters, and producers, internationally known and iconic music festivals and record labels, and the estates of celebrities and highly regarded songwriters and performers. Throughout our practice, we have also protected the brands and reputation of emerging and established athletes, celebrities, trend-setting fashion designers, and multi-national corporations.
Hertz Schram’s entertainment and media law team offers practical advice that provides clients with a sense of security and comfort throughout their entire career. We take time to learn about you, what you do, the art you create, the music you write or perform, the films you make, and how we can protect your incredible creations and assist you in achieving your career goals. We view things from both business and legal perspectives, advising clients on business and personal decisions that create long lasting effects and successful opportunities.
Our attorneys have guided the careers and represented Grammy award winners and nominees, Olympic Gold medalists, multi-platinum selling artists, songwriters, and producers, internationally known and iconic music festivals and record labels, and the estates of celebrities and highly regarded songwriters and performers. Throughout our practice, we have also protected the brands and reputation of emerging and established athletes, celebrities, trend-setting fashion designers, and multi-national corporations.
As a result of our dedication to our clients and passion for the entertainment industry, Hertz Schram’s entertainment and media attorneys are recognized as top honorees in entertainment law, guest lecture at law schools across the country as well as at international music and film conferences and festivals, and serve as experts, mediators, arbitrators, and consultants on complex, high profile entertainment disputes.
To schedule a consultation about any entertainment or media law issue, email or call us at (248) 694-8697.
Contact Our Bloomfield Hills Entertainment Lawyers & Detroit Media Attorneys Today!
- Contract negotiations and drafting
- Recording agreements
- Producer and engineer agreements
- Touring and live performance agreements and transactions
- Performance and appearance agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Songwriting agreements
- Screenwriter agreements
- Music and film manufacturing, distribution and production agreements
- Music and literary publishing agreements
- Band agreements
- Licensing and merchandising agreements
- Music placement in television, film, commercials and video games
- New media rights
- Music festival representation
- Personal appearances and autograph signings
- Talent and employment agreements
- Talent procurement for live events and personal appearances
- Event budget analysis
- Sponsorship, endorsement and merchandising agreements for events, artists, individuals and entities
- Event marketing, advertising and promotion budget and media purchasing analysis
- Risk management assessment
- Vendor agreements
- Participant waivers and releases
- Broadcast licenses
- Copyright and trademark licensing, registration, protection, maintenance and enforcement
- Copyright and trademark infringement defense and prosecution
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance and enforcement
- Royalty determination and collection
- Copyright reversion
- Reputation management
- Business entity formation
- Crowd funding
- Publicity and privacy rights
- Film financing agreements and private placement memoranda
- Option and purchase agreements
- Arbitration and mediation
- Litigation involving entertainment industry related issues including copyrights, trademarks, transactions, royalty and business disputes
- Corporate and securities law for entertainment companies
Your Entertainment Law Attorneys
Our firm was founded on the belief that our clients deserve the best possible representation in disputes, litigation and transactions.
Everyday, our attorneys strive to provide it.
Detroit Entertainment Law Firm – Media Attorneys Serving Bloomfield Hills, MI & Detroit, MI
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