Name: Copyrights & Trademarks for Artists & Musicians
Start: 2024-09-26T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-26T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Renaissance Center 214 N Ottawa Street Joliet IL

Copyrights & Trademarks for Artists & Musicians

Copyrights and Trademarks
for Artists & Musicians Seminar
6:30 - 7:30 presentation with Q&A to follow
Renaissance Center
214 N Ottawa St Joliet
Tickets: $25.00

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Peter Strand has extensive experience drafting, analyzing, revising, and negotiating complex entertainment industry agreements including record contracts, music publishing agreements, literary publishing agreements, film and television production agreements (producer, director, actor, composer, location, etc.), content and catalogue acquisition and distribution agreements, and agreements between creative collaborators (songwriters, co-authors, bands, production companies). These entertainment industry agreements typically address issues of ownership, compensation (royalties, advances, back end, upfront fees, and buy-out fees) control, credit, and content acquisition (options, licenses, works made for hire). He has represented authors, film/television production companies, recording artists, songwriters, on-screen and behind the camera talent, record producers, composers, and life story subjects.

Mr. Strand is a partner at the entertainment, media, and intellectual property law firm Mandell Menkes LLC in Chicago. He represents content creators and providers including authors, songwriters and composers, recording artists, musicians, television and film writers, independent record labels, music publishers, independent film producers and documentarians, and production companies in various transactional and litigation matters in the entertainment industry. In addition to contract preparation, analysis, and negotiation, he assists clients with protecting and enforcing their copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights; licensing or exploiting their creative works; acquiring and distributing content; and selecting, securing, and protecting product and service brand names.
In addition to his law practice, Peter teaches music law as an adjunct professor at Marquette University School of Law. He has also taught entertainment law and music law at Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law, and DePaul University College of Law.