Entertainment, Technology and Advertising

The Entertainment and Digital Media practice at Sheppard Mullin is a full-service multi-disciplinary group representing the major motion picture studios, television networks and other domestic and international entertainment, media and communications companies in all areas, including:

• motion picture and television development
• finance, production and distribution
• advertising/sweepstakes
• branded entertainment
• games
• intellectual property
• licensing and merchandising
• mergers, corporate finance, acquisitions and other strategic corporate transactions
• music
• First Amendment
• convergence, online/technology
• publishing
• sports

Our transactional attorneys have represented clients in some of the industry's largest and most complex distribution, licensing and financing transactions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic corporate activities.

Our litigators have extensive trial and appellate experience, and have litigated a wide variety of issues, including those involving distribution rights, profit or revenue participations, audit claims, talent disputes, copyright, idea submission and trademark claims, First Amendment, defamation and right of publicity claims, labor and employment claims, insurance disputes and antitrust, unfair competition and vertical integration claims.

We also have an FCC team to serve our entertainment clients' regulatory needs.

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• Visit our Entertainment Law Blog
• Visit our Advertising & Promotions Law Blog
• Visit our Art Law Blog
• Visit our Retail Trend Spotter Blog
• Visit our Video Game Blog

• Blockchain Game Developers and FinCEN: When are State Money Transmission Laws Applicable?
  10.03.2022
• NY Museums Required to Label the Last Prisoners of World War II
  09.02.2022
• Court Orders Injunctive Relief Against Tech Company for Deceptive Advertising, Unfair Fee Practices
  08.31.2022
• CFPB’s New Interpretive Rule Sets Sights on Digital Marketing Vendors
  08.29.2022
• Colorado’s Retail Delivery Fee
  08.08.2022
• Too Many Bites at the Apple?
  07.26.2022
• PFAS Regulations Could Open Floodgates to Prop 65 Enforcement – Assess & Manage Your Exposure Now
  06.28.2022
• Will U.S. Customs Seize Your Presumptively Illegal Apparel? Compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
  06.27.2022
• FTC Strengthens Advertising Guidelines Against Fake Reviews
  06.02.2022
• New York Fashion Sustainability Act: Now In Committee
  04.28.2022
• Video Games, AI, and …the Law?
  04.28.2022
• Thinking of Jumping on the NFT Bandwagon – Are you Prepared?
  04.19.2022
• Sow What Now?: Cal. Hispanic Chambers of Commerce et. al. v. Ross et. al., The U.S. Supreme Court, and California’s Proposition 12
  04.18.2022
• Unroll the Scroll Painting: Inside the Chinese Art Market and Its Regulatory Landscape
  04.15.2022
• What the Future Holds for Esports Gambling
  03.30.2022
• CFPB Flexes UDAAP Muscle Over Contractual “Gag” Clauses and Fake Consumer Reviews
  03.25.2022
• The Latest Win for Apple: Dismissal of Class Action about iPhones
  03.07.2022
• Proposed Federal Legislation Seeks to Ban Targeted Advertising
  01.28.2022
• California Passes Sweeping Package of “Green” Bills
  11.15.2021
• FTC Signals Plan to Enforce Civil Penalties for Deceptive Endorsements
  11.15.2021
• FTC Cracks Down On Violations of Newly-Codified “Made in USA” Claims Rule
  11.03.2021
• Esports Media Rights
  10.21.2021
• CARU Revises its Guidelines to Address Increase in Online Media
  08.26.2021
• Strategic Partnerships Advance Music and Gaming Synergy
  07.22.2021
• Florida Expands Telemarketing Laws
  07.20.2021
• Playing with privacy? Privacy and cybersecurity considerations in esports
  07.13.2021
• The Legal Considerations of Esports NFTs
  06.04.2021
• Top Esports Deals and Investments in 2020 and 2021
  05.28.2021
• Hello Again, Worlds: A Failed Gaming IPR Leads to § 101 Success
  05.21.2021
• NFTs and Intellectual Property: What IP Owners and NFT Creators Need to Know
  03.25.2021
• Protecting IP and Limiting Liability When Licensing IP for Digital Art and NFTs
  03.24.2021
• Tokenized Art Legal Issues
  02.26.2021
• How to Successfully Obtain Blockchain Patents
  02.25.2021
• Fundraiser for Collection Acquisition Material Concerns Three-Part Artist Lecture Series
  10.28.2020
• French Picasso Judgment is Abstract Expression to U.S. Law
  09.23.2019
• Driver’s License: Copyright Infringement in the World of Street Art
  09.19.2019
• The Hammer Falls on the First Major Blockchain-based Art Auction
  11.14.2018