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Legal
Consulting and In-Court Representation
Winheller Attorneys at Law provide legal advice to film makers,
production companies, actresses and actors, directors, screenplay
writers, playwrights, cinemas, TV stations, film funds and other
investors, casting agencies, film festival managers, film archives,
laboratories, film music composers, and others related to the
film and TV industry on copyright, trademark, labor, financial,
and tax law issues in Germany and internationally. We draft
the necessary contracts, set up production companies, check
and audit net profit and other royalty payments, protect and
enforce your intellectual property rights including names and
logos in and out of court, and advice you on tax and financial
issues.
We represent our clients before the civil, labor, and tax courts
as well as in arbitration proceedings.
Drafting & Negotiating Contracts
We draft and negotiate contracts. In order to render a career
in film and television successful, solid and diligently drafted
agreements are essential to lay solid legal foundations among
all participants and to proficiently publish, distribute, and
market upcoming releases. Winheller Attorneys at Law stand for
the drafting and negotiating of quality contracts which live
up to international standards.
We draft and negotiate in particular:
- Production agreements
- Production financing and distribution agreements
- Co-production agreements
- Production coordination agreements
- Production services agreements
- Option and purchase agreements
- Inducement letters
- Distribution agreements
- Online distribution agreements (Video-On-Demand, webcasting,
streaming, etc.)
- Negative pick-up deals
- Presale agreements
- Development money investment agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Insurance agreements (completion bonds, E & O, etc.)
- Home video/DVD license agreements
- Video-on-demand license agreements
- Internet commerce contracts
- International sales agency agreements
- Synchronization and master use license agreements
- Film clip license agreements
- Screenplay writer agreements
- Certificates of authorship
- Literary material acquisition agreements
- Novelization agreements
- Copyright assignments
- Employment agreements
- Loan-out agreements
- Work-made-for-hire contracts
- Pay or Play agreements
- Performer services agreements
- Director borrowing agreements
- Casting director agreements
- Management agreements
- Privacy and publicity rights agreements
- Consent and release agreements
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
- Exhibition agreements
- Film festival agreements
- Print and advertising agreements
- Laboratory access agreements
- Laboratory pledge holder agreements
- Laboratory film processing agreements
- Permissions to shoot
- TV film license agreements
- Product placement agreements
- LLC Operating agreements
- Limited partnership investment agreements
- Syndication TV agreements
- Game show rights agreements
- Leased channel time agreements
- TV host agreements
- TV music rights license agreements
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