Lutzker & Lutzker lawyers are deeply involved with the arts on both a professional and a personal level, and the art collection in our new offices reflects this aspect of the firm’s history. Our clients include film and television producers, authors, photographers, musicians, performers, artists and art collectors. The firm regularly counsels these clients on intellectual property, contract, financing, rights acquisition, insurance and other business matters. Additionally, a significant part of the firm’s litigation practice concerns enforcement of the intellectual property rights of creative artists and authors.
Representative Matters
- Advising film producers in connection with securing rights, music clearances and insurance
- Representing music publishing companies, including contract preparation and identification and protection of copyrights and trademarks
- Negotiating book publishing agreements, book-to-film rights agreements, screenwriting agreements, distribution agreements and film financing agreements
- Counseling start-up companies in film production and distribution
- Using the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) to fight infringements
- Representing art collectors in all aspects of collection management, including lending arrangements, insurance and disaster response
- Representing photographers and other creators in resolving online and physical appropriations of their copyrighted works
- Litigating in federal court when attempts to settle infringement disputes have been unsuccessful
- Litigating compulsory copyright royalty claims before the Copyright Royalty Board