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Legal Clinic with Innes Smolansky: Clearances

Legal Clinic with Innes Smolansky: Clearances
Friday, April 18th @ 7:30PM
DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street NYC

Getting clearances can be the most costly and time-consuming part of a film/video production. And knowing how to navigate clearances and rights can make the difference between finishing your film and blowing your budget.

Join Innes Smolansky & special industry guests as they offer invaluable advice on vetting the script, attaining clearances on footage, photographs, newspapers, and performances, music clearances (synch rights, master use rights), union and non-union performer rights (AF of M, SAG, AFTA), and how/when Fair Use applies to these topics.

This seminar provides invaluable advice for film producers & directors, and attendees are encouraged to bring their project ideas, problems, and questions with them to the seminar.

Dont miss out on the least expensive legal consultation you will ever experience in the entertainment industry!

About Ms. Smolansky:
Innes Smolansky is a New York based entertainment attorney specializing in representing producers, production companies, talent agencies and management companies, writers, authors, directors, and performers in independent motion picture production, documentaries, television and business and personal management deals. Her extensive and wide-ranging experience in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and counseling clients on development, financing, production, talent, employment, management and distribution deals has earned her a reputation as a skilled, savvy, and well-respected attorney in the entertainment industry.

Ms. Smolansky was born in St. Petersburg Russia and studied at Brown University (B.A. magna cum laude); University of Pennsylvania (J.D.); University of Paris X (Diploma D'Etude Juridique Europeenes).

Price: $10/DCTV Members; $20/Partner Organization Members