This up-to-date, legalese-free handbook explains how multimedia works are produced and distributed and explores the common, usually complex and discipline-crossing, legal issues that have accompanied its growth. Litwak's handbook walks the reader through the process of multimedia production, provides assessments of the practices of both established and emerging producers and distributors of multimedia works, and offers a broad variety of legal and business advice on such matters as protecting your work, entering into deals with electronic publishers and distributors, and plunging into cyberspace. Accompanying Litwak's sage advice are numerous sample contracts and agreements that relate to all aspects of multimedia production and distribution.
Mark Litwak is the author of six books and numerous articles. He is an entertainment attorney based in Beverly Hills, California, an arbitrator and an expert witness. He is the creator of the popular CD-ROM program Movie Magic Contracts.
A frequent speaker, he has presented seminars across the United States, and in England, Australia, South Africa and Canada including presentations for the American Film Institute, Columbia University, N.Y.U, U.S.C, the University of British Columbia and the Royal College of Art in London.
Litwak has been a lawyer for 33 years. He has an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine.
He is the creator of Entertainment Law Resources, at www.marklitwak.com.
