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Entertainment Law

Foster Swift entertainment lawyers counsel clients on a wide range of issues involving entertainment law, such as film financing, project management, distribution, intellectual property, licensing and optioning of rights. Entertainment law encompasses many broad legal categories. The attorneys at Foster Swift can help artists, writers and producers handle contract, merchandising, securities, employment, taxation, litigation and contested rights issues. Our lawyers work closely with artists, talent and their management to help them pursue their careers successfully.

Our services in the following areas include working with:

  • Film/Television: Studios, Screenwriters, Producers, Directors, Casting Directors, Music Directors, Managers, Agents, Actors and Actresses, Animators, Distributors, Production Companies
  • Music: Composers, Songwriters, Producers, Recording Artists and Bands, Musicians, Managers, Agents, Publishing Companies, Record Labels, Distributors, Digital Download Companies, Performing Rights Societies, Concert Promoters
  • Theater: Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists, Producers, Managers, Actors and Actresses
  • Literature: Authors (fiction, nonfiction and technical), Publishers, Electronic Publishers
  • Advertising: Models, Photographers, Writers and Singers of Jingles, Agencies

Our entertainment lawyers are also available to help clients in the movie and television industry take advantage of Michigan's film incentives, including a potential 40% refundable tax credit on Michigan expenditures and an additional 2% refundable tax credit if filming takes place in any of more than 100 "core communities" throughout the State.

Foster Swift's entertainment lawyers work diligently on behalf of our clients to provide a strategic legal focus and cover necessary details so the artists can do what they do best: create.

Please contact us for any entertainment law questions or assistance with proposed projects you may be developing. 

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