Rights, Trademark, and Clearances services
Your creative work is valuable and so are the rights that protect it. WAM Entertainment Law provides strategic legal guidance to aid content creators, distributors, and rights holders in securing, managing, and protecting their intellectual property. Whether you need assistance with copyright and trademark registration, rights analysis, licensing agreements, or clearances, we offer customized legal solutions to safeguard your work and ensure compliance.
Copyright Services
- Copyright Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office.
- Document Recording with U.S. Copyright Office.
- Assistance with and preparation of Copyright Termination Letters and Filings with U.S. Copyright Office.
- Rights analysis and copyright research for underlying rights and acquisition inquiries and public domain research as well as assistance with music rights research and advisement.
- Fair Use and Related Copyright and Chain-of-Title Opinions (see the services page devoted to this topic HERE).
Trademark Services
- Trademark Registration & Renewals of entertainment & media brands, logos, and marks with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
- Trademark assignment registration with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
- Negotiate, draft, and finalize trademark licenses, releases, assignments, and related agreements.
Other Clearance Services
- Draft, negotiate, and finalize general clearance documents, agreements, and releases (e.g., third-party materials licenses, clip licenses, crowd releases, personal releases, product placement agreements, re-use agreements, etc.).
- Draft, negotiate, and finalize music licenses.
- Draft, negotiate, and finalize chain-of-title, rights, and reversion agreements (for additional information on chain-of-title services, see our production legal services page).
- Personal rights research, analysis, and advisement.
- General ongoing rights and clearances advisement.
- Review and analysis of your content library and documents and advisement on data rights management solutions.
- Negotiation and finalization of data rights management agreements.
- Assistance with data entry to data rights management (DRM) solution (software provided by client’s preferred third-party vendor)
For additional clearance opinion and reporting services, see our fair use & clearance opinions and reports page.
Don’t see what you are looking for? Read more about our other legal services on our services page, or connect with us to schedule your initial consultation and see if WAM Entertainment Law can assist you on your specific legal needs.
NOTE: Clearance legal services at WAM Entertainment Law do NOT include securities filings, taxation, or litigation of any kind.