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The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide to negotiating that obstacle course is The Biz, a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal, and financial aspects. Filled with industry-savvy advice, it clearly explains, raising financing, business structuring, securities laws, budgeting essentials, dealing with the guilds, loans, completion guarantees, distribution deals, video on demand, virtual reality, calculating net profits, film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments, copyright, publicity, and trademark laws, screen credits and talent demands, litigation problems, bankruptcy, taxation of film companies, film-industry business jargon … and much more, including many useful sample forms and agreements. The 5th Edition adds much new material, including the most current information on video demand and virtual reality, and thoroughly updates all chapters of the book.

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The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide to negotiating that obstacle course is The Biz, a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal, and financial aspects. Filled with industry-savvy advice, it clearly explains, raising financing, business structuring, securities laws, budgeting essentials, dealing with the guilds, loans, completion guarantees, distribution deals, video on demand, virtual reality, calculating net profits, film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments, copyright, publicity, and trademark laws, screen credits and talent demands, litigation problems, bankruptcy, taxation of film companies, film-industry business jargon … and much more, including many useful sample forms and agreements. The 5th Edition adds much new material, including the most current information on video demand and virtual reality, and thoroughly updates all chapters of the book.

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The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

by Schuyler M. Moore
The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

The Biz : The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World

by Schuyler M. Moore

Overview

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide to negotiating that obstacle course is The Biz, a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal, and financial aspects. Filled with industry-savvy advice, it clearly explains, raising financing, business structuring, securities laws, budgeting essentials, dealing with the guilds, loans, completion guarantees, distribution deals, video on demand, virtual reality, calculating net profits, film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments, copyright, publicity, and trademark laws, screen credits and talent demands, litigation problems, bankruptcy, taxation of film companies, film-industry business jargon … and much more, including many useful sample forms and agreements. The 5th Edition adds much new material, including the most current information on video demand and virtual reality, and thoroughly updates all chapters of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935247180
Publisher: Silman-James Pr
Publication date: 05/30/2018
Edition description: 5th Expanded and Updated ed.
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Schuyler M. Moore is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of the law firm Greenberg Glusker, LLP. He has been practicing entertainment industry law since 1981, representing a broad spectrum of clients, including financiers. Moore is the author of Taxation of the Entertainment Industry and What They Don't Teach You in Law School. He is a frequent speaker and writer on entertainment subjects, and he was an adjunct professor at both the UCLA Law School and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Hollywood Reporter consistently lists Moore as one of the top 100 entertainment lawyers.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Jargon Translation Guide 1

2 The Basics 9

3 Sources of Financing 19

4 Entities 35

5 Private Offerings 45

6 The Budget 57

7 Guilds 63

8 Loans and Security Interests 71

9 Completion Guarantees 83

10 Distribution Agreements 95

11 Video on Demand 117

12 Virtual Reality 125

13 Four Ways to Calculate Net Profits (Depending On Who's Asking) 135

14 Gaap Accounting Principles for Film Companies 143

15 Contingent Payments to Talent and Licensors 149

16 Law of Ideas 159

17 Copyright 165

18 Right of Publicity 173

19 Trademark 183

20 Credits 189

21 Talent 195

22 Litigation 201

23 Bankruptcy 207

24 Taxation 217

Appendix: Forms 233

Form A Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement 235

Form B Loan and Security Agreement 243

Form C Notice of Assignment and Distributor's Acceptance 261

Form D Inter-Party Agreement 267

Form E Completion Guarantee Agreement 295

Form F Producer's Completion Agreement 303

Form G Sales Agent Agreement 319

Form H Pro-Licensor License Agreement 323

Form I Pro-Licensee Short-Form Agreement 329

Form J Pro-Licensee License Agreement 333

Form K Short-Form Definition of Net Profits 353

Index 355

About the Author 366

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