One of the pleasures of working in the IP field is the chance to deal with artists of all types hoping for a big break. Today, much artistic attention is directed to filmmaking, which has become the dominant commerical outlet of a generation of creative artists (perhaps only now being replaced by the creative freedom taking place on the Internet).
The legal issues confronting aspiring filmmakers are daunting, particularly the clearance of rights. Good legal help is expensive, often prohibitively so, but litigation arising from the failure to do things right in the first instance can be even more expensive and can destroy ... more »
