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Experienced Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law

So you have written the great American novel and you are wondering how best to protect the movie rights in your contract with prospective agents and publishers. You might have thought ahead to the audio books. How about the foreign language rights? These and other issues require the services of an experienced entertainment law attorney who knows how to navigate these areas.

Maybe you hold a patent on an invention, or a copyright or trademark to a written work or any product or process. You may have the right to prevent others from using or marketing these works without your permission. Thus if, for example, a corporation improperly uses your idea or product for its own purposes and profit without paying for it or getting a license to do so, you may need an attorney who can obtain redress for infringement of your intellectual property rights.

Perhaps you want to raise capital for your movie venture and you would like to do a private placement that would meet the requirements of the federal securities laws. Or suppose you want to copyright a "treatment" that you have written about an incident in your life, or something purely the product of your imagination. You may need an attorney to help you get the necessary protection for your work.

Or perhaps you write fund raising letters for a political cause and you want to avoid charges of defamation and you need help when a less than ethical competitor copies your material. You need counsel from someone who understands these issues.

Perhaps a competitor has copied your line of clothing or luggage and is having it manufactured and marketed from overseas. How do you effectively contest these illegal actions that infringe upon your trademark? How do you get a trademark in the first place?

These are the types of issues that an experienced entertainment lawyer and intellectual property attorney with appropriate skills and resources may help you address. Contact experienced intellectual property attorney Pamela B. Stuart for a consultation about your particular issue.