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CONTRACTS FOR THE FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY
2nd Edition
Mark Litwak, 460 pages, 81/2x11, 1-879505-46-0, $35.00 paper
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Contracts for the Film and Television Industry is an invaluable collection of sample entertainment contracts along with discussions of he concepts and terns contained therein. Completely revised and greatly expanded—the second edition of this popular and essential handbook is the ultimate entertainment-law source for independent filmmakers, who, armed with this book, can save themselves thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Contracts for the Film and Television Industry contains 62 Contracts Covering
• Depiction and Copyright Release
• Literary Submission and Sale
• Artist Employment
• Collaboration
• Music
• Financing
• Production
• Distribution
• Merchandising
• Retainers
… and much more, including the basic provisions of entertainment contracts, and a glossary of terms.
Mark Litwak is a veteran entertainment attorney whose practice includes work in the areas of copyright, trademark, contract, multimedia, intellectual property, and book publishing. He's also a producer's rep, assisting filmmakers in the financing, marketing, and distribution of their films.  

An acknowledged authority on the entertainment industry, he has been interviewed on more than 100 television and radio shows, including The Larry King Show, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and news shows on the ABC and CNN networks. Feature articles have been written about him in California Law Business, Australian Lawyer, and the L.A. Weekly.  

Litwak has taught entertainment and copyright law at the University of West Los Angeles, UCLA, and Loyola Law School and has lectured for the American, California, and Texas bar associations. He has presented seminars across the United States and in England, Australia, South Africa, and Canada.  

He is the author of five books—Reel Power, The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood; Courtroom Crusad­ers; Dealmaking in the Film and Television Industry (winner of the 1995 Krazna-Kranz Moving Image Book Award); Contracts for the Film and Television Industry; and Litwak's Multimedia Producer's Handbook—and the popular CD-ROM program Movie Magic Contracts.
 
 
   
 
   
 
     
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