Media Law: A User's Guide for Film and Programme Makers / Edition 1

by Rhonda Baker

Overview

From concept to distribution, those involved in film and programme making come into contact with many legal topics. Copyright, moral rights, contract law, libel and slander, employment law, tax law, obscenity and indecency laws, contempt of court and even Official Secrets Act are many perplexing areas of the law that need to be understood and dealt with during the completion of a project. This User's Guide sets these difficult areas of the law in context and tackles them in practice to acquaint film and programme makers with useful, practical insight into potential problem areas. In accessible non-legal language the book takes a logical approach through a deal-acquiring rights in literary and other material, developing and adapting that material to production stage, raising finance for development and production, concluding agreements with financiers, contracting cast and crew, securing locations, obtaining insurance and exploiting the finished production. It also includes an advisory section on setting up and running a company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415136709
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/27/1994
Series:	Blueprint Series
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

S.J. Berwin & Co. London UK

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The business; Chapter 3 The idea; Chapter 4 The deal; Chapter 5 Development; Chapter 6 Financing; Chapter 7 Production and financing agreements; Chapter 8 Hiring and firing; Chapter 9 Rights clearances I; Chapter 10 Rights clearances II; Chapter 11 Completion guarantees and production insurances; Chapter 12 Script and content clearance; Chapter 13 Distribution agreements; Chapter 14 Secondary exploitation; Chapter 15 Legal proceedings;