Entertainment Attorneys Serving Clients Nationwide
Georgia is one of the busiest production states in the country, and the legal work behind that industry looks nothing like the business it supports. Deals move on compressed timelines, rights are layered across multiple parties, and the agreement signed in a hurry at the start of a project is the document everyone argues about at the end. Kaufman & Hilbert PC advises artists, writers, performers, producers, production companies, studios, venues, brands, and investors on the contracts, rights, and entity structures the entertainment business runs on, and litigates when a deal or a right is not honored. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, and serving clients nationwide and internationally, the firm handles these matters with senior attorneys who understand that a client’s leverage today determines their position for years.
How Kaufman & Hilbert Can Help
Entertainment work sits at the intersection of contract, intellectual property, and business law. Our attorneys handle:
- Talent, production, distribution, and licensing agreements
- Copyright, trademark, and rights clearance, including chain of title
- Entity formation, financing, and production company structuring
- Name, image, likeness, and right of publicity matters, including endorsement and sponsorship deals
- Entertainment disputes, from royalty and credit claims to breach of contract litigation
Our Entertainment Law Services
Contracts and Deal Negotiation
Most entertainment outcomes are decided at signature. We draft and negotiate talent and performer agreements, writer and work-for-hire agreements, producer and director deals, production services agreements, distribution and licensing terms, sponsorship and endorsement contracts, and venue and event agreements. We focus on the terms that matter long after the project wraps: ownership, credit, term and territory, exclusivity, approvals, reversion, and how and when money actually gets paid.
Rights, Clearance, and Intellectual Property
A production is only as sound as its chain of title. We handle copyright and trademark registration and enforcement, option and rights acquisition agreements, clearance of underlying works, music, and third-party materials, and the releases a project needs to be insurable and distributable. We also advise creators on protecting their catalog, controlling their name and likeness, and structuring licenses that do not give away more than intended.
Business Structure and Financing
Entertainment ventures live or die on structure. We form and structure production companies, labels, and single-purpose project entities, paper investor and financing arrangements, draft the operating agreements that govern creative control and profit participation, and coordinate with the firm’s economic incentives attorneys on state production incentives. Getting the entity right protects both the creative work and the people behind it.
Entertainment Disputes
When a deal breaks down, we litigate. We handle royalty and profit participation disputes, credit and attribution claims, breach of contract and licensing disputes, infringement claims, and disputes among partners and collaborators. Many entertainment agreements route disputes to arbitration or require confidentiality, and we handle those proceedings with the same rigor we bring to court.
Who We Serve
We represent recording artists, musicians, writers, actors, directors, influencers and digital creators, athletes and personalities managing their name and likeness, independent producers and production companies, studios and post houses, event and venue operators, brands entering talent and sponsorship deals, and the investors who finance all of it. Some clients come to us before a deal to make sure they are not signing away the thing they built. Others come after, when the credit, the royalty, or the ownership did not come through as promised.
