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The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting and Distributing Independent and Digital Films - Softcover

Garon, Jon M.

 
9781556524721: The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting and Distributing Independent and Digital Films

Synopsis

Today's explosion of independent and digital filmmaking demands a brass-tacks guide to the business and legal aspects of the process. What fundraising options are available to a filmmaker? When should a filmmaker establish a corporation or limited liability company? How do screenwriters protect their work? What are a director's legal obligations to the producer, cast, and crew -- and what are their obligations in return? This indispensable guide answers the legal, financial, and organisational questions that an independent or guerrilla filmmaker must face, problems that will doom a project if left unanswered. It chronologically demystifies issues such as founding a film company, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen credits, distributing, exhibiting, and marketing a film. It even anticipates the 'problems' generated by a blockbuster hit: sound tracks, merchandising, and licensing.

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About the Author

Jon M. Garon is Dean and a law professor at Hamline University School of Law, specializing in entertainment law, intellectual property, and business law. He regularly writes and speaks on entertainment, copyright and first amendment. Dean Garon is author of Entertainment Law & Practice and co-author of Theatre Law- Cases and Materials.

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