Services Offered
Legal and business negotiations and documentation (which includes, without limitation)
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Phone: 805-963-7177
Talent Negotiations
Law firm handles negotiations and documentation for acting, directing and producing talent services on films and television programs on behalf of actors, directors and producers, as well as for production companies hiring this talent.
Distribution Agreements
Law firm handles the negotiations and prepares the documentation for Distribution/Broadcast/Exhibition agreements/Collection Management Agreements/E & Insurance Agreements agreements in connection with completed theatrical feature films and television programs.
You create, we make the deals.
Production Financing
Law firm negotiates and prepares documentation for agreements that provide financing for motion picture and television programs.
Rights Negotiations / Clearance
Law firm handles the negotiations and prepares the documentation for the acquisition, development and exploitation of life story rights, book rights, and the rights for other source materials both for feature films, television programs and other media
As one of the key components of any documentary is rights clearances - name and likeness rights, life story rights, rights of privacy, music clearance rights, and all other releases/rights documentation for the use of third party proprietary material - Ted Baer Law can assist filmmakers in negotiating/securing and documenting these rights for all uses on a worldwide basis, or on a platform by platform (market by market) basis (for example, initial fees for Film Festivals, with optional fees for subsequent uses).
Industry Connections
Production Legal
Law firm handles the various agreements required for producing a film: location manager, casting director, producers, director, and actors, insurance, music licensing, releases for clearance – including, without limitation, underlying rights, location releases and products for merchandising.
Negotiations / Documentation for Publishing Deals
Our firm provides expert legal services across a wide range of practice areas, ensuring client needs are met with precision and dedication.
*LAW FIRM DOES NOT REPRESENT MUSICIANS, OR ANY OF THEIR MUSIC LEGAL OR MUSIC BUSINESS MATTERS.
Law firm handles the negotiations and prepares the documentation for publishing agreements on behalf of authors writing both fiction and non-fiction works.
Independent Films
Ted Baer Law specializes in independent film contract negotiations in all phases of development, financing, production, distribution and exploitation of ancillary rights, as well as talent negotiations, writer and director deals, and film finance negotiations, with budgets ranging from approximately $250,000 to approximately $10,000,000. Over the past 40 years, production companies, film producers, writers, directors and independent film financiers have utilized the services and film expertise of Ted Baer Law for their development, financing, production, distributioni and other exploitation of independent(as well as studio) feature films.
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