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Legal
Consulting and In-Court Representation
Winheller Attorneys at Law provide legal advice to regional,
community, and state theaters, private theaters, opera houses,
musical theaters, Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway
productions, repertory theaters, postmodern theaters, vanguard
style theaters, improvisational theaters, and festival and event
managers of all kinds (fringe, temple dance, etc.) on copyright,
trademark, labor, financial, and tax law issues in Germany and
internationally. We especially represent art directors, theater-managers,
producers, authors, composers, conductors, playwrights, choreographers,
performing artists, actresses and actors, ensembles, opera and
operetta singers, lighting technicians, Props, scene-painters,
costume designers, make-up artists, festival technicians, choirs,
and orchestras. We also advise theater funds, stage associations,
and marketing divisions of musical and other theaters.
We represent our clients before the civil, labor, and tax courts
as well as in stage arbitration proceedings.
Drafting & Negotiating Contracts
We draft and negotiate contracts. In order to render a theater
and stage production successful, solid and diligently drafted
agreements are essential to acquire licenses and to lay solid
legal foundations for all participants. 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:
- First-class production agreements
- Associate producer agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Co-production agreements
- Co-producer/stockholders agreements
- West End contracts
- Non-profit companies production agreements
- Staged reading director agreements
- License agreements
- Option contracts
- Securing stage rights
- Book writer agreements
- Front-front money agreements
- General manager agreements
- Musical director agreements
- Musical composer agreements
- Musical arranger agreements
- Literary purchase agreements
- Contracts to commission an adaptor
- Guest performance agreements
- Purchase of Grand performing rights agreements
- Sale of a life story for a theater play
- Agreements commissioning playwrights
- Original cast album agreements
- Hold fast director and choreographer agreements
- LLC Operating agreements
- Articles of organization
- Limited partnership agreements
- Contracts for first-class equity tours
- Festival and event agreement
- Work-made-for-hire agreements
- Promotion agreements
- Insurance contracts
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