Entertainment and Digital Media

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 Fashion & Apparel Law Blog
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• Esports Media Rights
  10.21.2021
• California Passes Law Establishing New Wage and Hour Requirements for Employers in the Garment Industry
  10.19.2021
• 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
• The Expanded Reach of States for Sales & Use Tax Purposes – More Than Just e-Commerce Retailers are Impacted
  05.19.2021
• Seeking to Stop Deceptive ‘MADE IN USA’ Claims, the FTC Takes Action Against Brandnex
  05.14.2021
• Activision Files Lawsuit Over the Rights to Use the Word “Warzone” in the Call Of Duty Series
  04.27.2021
• A Primer on Game Monetization
  04.14.2021
• 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
• Nevada Moves to Create Esports Commission
  03.19.2021
• Some Press is Bad Press: False Light in the Modeling Industry
  03.19.2021
• Special Considerations in Video Game M&A Transactions
  03.18.2021
• Maryland Breaks Ground with Digital Advertising Tax
  03.17.2021
• Brands And Influencers Need To Know About SAG-AFTRA’s New Influencer Agreement
  03.11.2021
• Tokenized Art Legal Issues
  02.26.2021
• How to Successfully Obtain Blockchain Patents
  02.25.2021
• Is it Time to Make AR and VR a Part of Your Reality?
  02.12.2021
• Top 10 Diligence Issues in Lead Generation Mergers and Acquisitions
  02.12.2021
• Mobile Advertising Company Gets Flack from FTC for Failure to Deliver Upon Advertised Promises
  01.14.2021
• The Scoop on All that Vanilla Flavor False Advertising Litigation
  01.13.2021
• Food & Beverage False Advertising and Labeling Class Actions: What You Need to Know for 2021
  01.12.2021
• NY’s Gendered Pricing Law: Will It Curb the Pink Tax
  11.09.2020
• Fundraiser for Collection Acquisition Material Concerns Three-Part Artist Lecture Series
  10.28.2020
• To Defer or Not Defer? IRS Issues Guidance Temporarily Delaying the Collection of Social Security Taxes
  09.15.2020
• A Trade War on Two Fronts: U.S. Considers More Tariffs on European Goods
  08.20.2020
• No Reason to Blush
  08.14.2020
• FTC Cracks Down On Deceptive Social Media Campaign By Teami LLC
  05.13.2020
• Protecting Your Inventory and Getting Paid
  05.12.2020
• 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
• “Bank For Your Buck” – The Legal Implications of Banksy’s Destruction of “Girl with Balloon”
  10.19.2018
• Masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto Purchased by London National Gallery Consequent to Temporary Export Bar
  11.08.2017