PitchMark IP Clinic #2: Contracts & licensing for Film & TV

We’ll delve this time into the world of contracts and licensing for international film and television. Have you written a script or a book that could be adapted for the screen? Wrote a song that has been used in an advertisement? Then this webinar is for you. Ask Michael Leow from Haldanes' Hong Kong office and PitchMark legal advisor Frank Rittman all your questions.

In this webinar, we'll be looking at how the traditional Hollywood studio approach to handling IP may have been tweaked for Asia.

They include:

• Handling of chain of title and licensing or assigning those rights for exploitation.
• Staff writers vs independent creators
  
• Creation of new content vs adaptation/licensing/optioning of existing content
• International vs local industry practices in the acquisition of Film/TV rights
• Changing film/TV distribution patterns and the streaming factor
• Terms and conditions imposed within contracts
• Music rights and licensing

Date: June 9 17:00 - 18:00 SGT/PST (UTC+8)

It's free. Register here!

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Michael Leow has successfully established himself as one of the leading entertainment lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region. He was a member of the Singapore Film Commission Advisory Committee of the InfoComm Media Development Authority as well as an honorary legal advisor for the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong Film Awards. Michael has also been involved on the non-legal side of the business as an associate producer roles on some film projects in Asia.

Frank Rittman is one of the founding directors of The Centre for Content Promotion and has an extensive background in the copyright, media and entertainment industries. Currently based in Bangkok as the Regional President for the Motion Picture Licensing Company, Frank previously served in various senior roles for the Motion Picture Association’s Asia Pacific Office in Singapore. Before joining the MPA in 2001, Frank was the Vice-President for International Affairs at the National Music Publishers’ Association and The Harry Fox Agency in the US. He began his career as the director of contracts and copyrights for the Macmillan Publishing Company in New York. Frank is Legal Advisor to PitchMark.