Serving Southern California for Over 40 Years

Services

Entertainment and Copyright and Trademark (Intellectual Property) Litigation

• Copyright and Trademark (Intellectual Property) infringement
• Theft of ideas
• Breach of contract/failure to pay monies due
• Guild arbitrations
• Royalty and participation disputes
• Disputes with book publishers

To date, in over thirty-eight (38) years of practicing law, all of Levine’s cases have been settled to the satisfaction of his clients prior to trial by way of arbitration, mediation, dispute resolution, or direct negotiation with opposing counsel.

Entertainment Transactions (Contracts), including the internet

• Entertainment financing documents
• Acquisition of “life story” rights
• Performers’ releases
• Production contracts for television, independent films, videos, and major motion pictures
• Music and artwork clearances
• Software licenses, domain name registration, and website development
• Distribution agreements (digital and physical)
• Option/purchase and “set-up” agreements
• Screenplay adaptations of existing books
• Book Publishing agreements
• Vetting or “clearing” of non-fiction and life story manuscripts (memoirs/autobiographies and biographies), screenplays, and teleplays
• Collaboration agreements for songwriters, screenwriters, and book authors (including  “ghost writers”)
• Music contracts, including composers (live and recorded, including demos and soundtracks)
• Licensing deals and agreements, including merchandising
• Music licenses for internet streaming, digital downloads, videogames, ringtones, film, commercials, and television
• Purchase and sale of music catalogs (publishing and recording), including due diligence
• Artwork, graphic design, and photography (including visual artist exhibition and gallery consignment)
• Venues and facilities agreements
• Contest registration and rules
• “Non-compete”, non-solicitation, non-circumvention, and confidentiality agreements
• Life story, photo, and depiction releases