This user's reference guide to media law offers advice on copyright; moral rights; contract law; defamation, libel and slander; contempt of court and the Official Secrets Act. In accessible, non-legal language, this work covers how to acquire rights to literary and other material, develop and adapt that material to production stage, raise funds for development and production, handle financiers, contract cast and crew, secure locations, obtain insurance and exploit the finished production. An advisory section on setting up and running a company is included. The text highlights how to avoid pitfalls, with advice on: how to legally protect ideas; how to acquire and clear rights with particular emphasis on music; how completion guarantees work; hiring (and firing) staff; the importance of Errors and Omissions insurance; how to deal with distributors; and how to exploit secondary rights - merchandising, format rights and publishing rights. Advice is also included on what to do if someone sues and what to do about injunctions. This book should be of interest to producers of film, television, video and radio, and entertainment lawyers.
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major paid advertising, character merchandisers, synchronization licence, development financier, format royalty, live stage rights, script fee, completion guarantor, character merchandising, secondary exploitation, reasonable endeavours, completion guarantee, repeat fees, foreign entertainers, licence period, production insurances, accord credits, underlying format, cable programme, secondary rights, acquisition agreement, distribution advance, lending rights, production fee, injunction proceedings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Four, Network Centre, British Screen, Inland Revenue, Broadcasting Act, United States, Working Practices, Copyright Office, Official Secrets Act, United Kingdom, Companies House, Restrictive Trade Practices Act, Cole Porter, Empire of the Sun, Equity Agreement, European Community, Rear Window, Richard Strauss, Clockwork Orange, Department of National Heritage, European Commission, Freud's Little Secret, Hollywood Studios, Independent Television Commission, Industrial Tribunal New!
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major paid advertising, character merchandisers, synchronization licence, development financier, format royalty, live stage rights, script fee, completion guarantor, character merchandising, secondary exploitation, reasonable endeavours, completion guarantee, repeat fees, foreign entertainers, licence period, production insurances, accord credits, underlying format, cable programme, secondary rights, acquisition agreement, distribution advance, lending rights, production fee, injunction proceedings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Four, Network Centre, British Screen, Inland Revenue, Broadcasting Act, United States, Working Practices, Copyright Office, Official Secrets Act, United Kingdom, Companies House, Restrictive Trade Practices Act, Cole Porter, Empire of the Sun, Equity Agreement, European Community, Rear Window, Richard Strauss, Clockwork Orange, Department of National Heritage, European Commission, Freud's Little Secret, Hollywood Studios, Independent Television Commission, Industrial Tribunal New!
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- Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard on page 24, and page 27
- Wuthering Heights by LLC Henry Holt & Company on page 204
- Running a Limited Company by David Impey in Back Matter
- The British Film Institute: [Hc]: [1993-94]: House of Commons Papers: [1993-94] by Great Britain in Back Matter
- A Clockwork Orange (Hb) by Kubrick Stanley on page 142
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