The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers

INTRODUCTION

This book is intended to provide you with a grasp of many of the key legal issues you will be facing during the course of making your independent films. It can help you understand and negotiate crucial production contracts, steer you through the choppy waters of handling actors and their agents, and navigate your production past the perils of copyright infringement and other lawsuits. Most importantly, it can help you protect that most valuable of properties—the rights to your film.

When I was approached to write this book, I wanted to create something filmmakers would use on a daily basis—something that I would have used when I was a producer.

Before sitting down to write, I surveyed the market and found that books on film law generally ...