All posts tagged "Legal advice"
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Indie Law Mailbag: Get Your Pressing Indie Law Questions Answered
Are you an indie moviemaker kept up at night by one nagging legal question that you worry will derail your upcoming production? Rest easy: We’re...
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Cinema Law: Can I Fictionalize A Reality TV Idea Without Infringing Its Copyright?
Q: I wrote a novel about a fictional reality TV dating show that bears similarities to The Bachelor and other similar shows. Should I consider...
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Cinema Law: What Are Your Options When You’re Fired From A Job Before It Even Begins?
Q: I was booked as a makeup artist on a production for the month of August. I signed a written employment contract with the production...
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Paper Trail, No Fail: How to Stay Out of Legal Trouble? Document Everything
Also known as “Contracts or it didn’t happen,” this practice might help you get out of jail—or at least sleep better at night. “I can’t...
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Cinema Law: Do I Need Life Rights for a Scripted Film if I Have Them for a Documentary?
Q: I am writing a film based on a documentary I wrote, produced and directed in 2005. When I made the documentary, all the on-camera...
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Cinema Law: Who Owns the Copyright to Behind the Scenes Footage?
Welcome to Cinema Law, where you ask the questions of our resident team of legal experts and, each week, they’ll provide the answers to your...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...