Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson

Palm Springs And Newport Beach Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the Right Choice for Your Entertainment Endeavors in Orange County and throughout California

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the counsel you keep for all your Entertainment Matters in California.  You’ll find us where justice and knowledge meet with creativity. Bigger is fine, smarter is better.  Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the right choice today, and the right choice tomorrow for all your entertainment endeavors.

As a former professional musician, creator of a stage musical in London, a published book author, and the author of a number of legal articles for California’s top two legal newspapers, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is uniquely qualified to practice in the area of entertainment law. He understands the unique struggles creative people encounter today and the many ways entertainers can be taken advantage of.

The Law Offices of Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is a well-known entertainment law firm for California and beyond. Whether you need an entertainment attorney in Orange County or anywhere else in California, a trademark or copyright Lawyer in San Diego, or a celebrity attorney in Palm Springs, Newport Beach or Santa Barbara, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson can help you with your California legal matters.

With law degrees in both California and in the U.K. and over 45 years of experience working as an international and entertainment lawyer in London and California, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is equipped to handle your international entertainment legal matters. Whether you need an attorney for a film being shot or edited in London or in New Zealand, or a concert performance in Paris or Australia, we can help you with all of your international law issues and contracts.

In addition to reviewing Book Publishing Contracts and Literary Agency Contracts, California Entertainment Lawyer and Publishing Attorney Sebastian Gibson not only drafts, reviews and negotiates both Book Option Purchase Agreements but also drafts, reviews and negotiates Book Shopping Agreements for authors whose books producers want to develop into a film or television project.

What To Expect Of A California Entertainment Lawyer

 A top-notch attorney in the entertainment field should go beyond drafting and negotiating a complex entertainment agreement. Sebastian Gibson will stand up to anyone who would take advantage of his clients, their physical property or intellectual property.

That’s why at the offices of Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson we not only review, write, and negotiate the agreements our entertainment clients need, but we litigate on behalf of our clients and when it matters most. And, unlike most other entertainment attorneys, we do so because we love this area of law.

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson provides invaluable expertise for entertainment events, concerts, live performances, festivals and world tours.  He also can assist with tournaments, competitions, and sponsor parties related to entertainment events, festivals and sporting events.

As a California Entertainment Attorney, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Lawyer Sebastian Gibson’s practice areas in the field of entertainment law today include motion pictures, television, music, publishing, modeling, model management, talent agency agreements, personal management agreements, video on demand movie projects, copyrights, trademarks, entertainment events, music and film festivals, live performances, concerts, world tours, comedy festivals, fashion events, athletic events, sponsor parties, sponsorship agreements, endorsement agreements, film music licensing, merchandise agreements, performing artist contracts, charity events, book options for films and television, stage productions, art, fashion, modeling, publicity and privacy rights, misuse of images, athlete and celebrity representation and international entertainment matters.

In entertainment disputes, Sebastian Gibson uses his unique perspective and expertise on behalf of the individual artist.

• The musician who needs a contract reviewed or whose music copyright is being infringed
• The film, television or stage actor who is being unjustly fired
• The producer or director who needs a movie, TV or theatrical contract reviewed
• The book or screenplay writer who needs publishing agreement or agent contract reviewed
• The model who needs her first modeling agreement reviewed
• An artist who needs their talent agency agreement or personal management agreement reviewed
• The fashion or jewelry designer whose design has been copied
• The artist in a dispute with an art gallery
• The small business that needs to apply for or protect a trademark
• The athlete whose contract has been breached
• The video games developer whose work has been copied
• The celebrity whose image or likeness has been used without their permission

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice for Your Entertainment Endeavors

With over 40 years of experience both in London and in California as an entertainment attorney, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to British Film and TV producers and how streaming services and platforms are affecting the UK film and industry and has written on this subject. There is currently nowhere that the changes brought about by streaming is having a bigger effect on a country’s film industry than Britain and the UK’s talent and producers, known for their excellence, have never been in more demand.

We can protect your film and television concepts and submissions with copyright and trademark protection, registrations with the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, with contracts and agreements, and with submissions by an experienced California entertainment attorney. Importantly, we also know what to look for in analyzing submission releases so a producer or writer does not waive important rights.

With the experience of Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson in the entertainment industry both as a writer and musician, we’re very familiar with all of the various ways in which film and TV projects are conceived and developed and we can assist a producer in the early creative stage as well. With experience in advertising as well, we can assist a producer later in writing the perfect pitch and preparing submission materials including show bibles and film lookbooks of the professional quality that’s expected today in the entertainment industry.

The submission process today is becoming more and more competitive with literally tens of thousands of producers competing to get their concept for a television series, limited episode TV series or reality show made and their film project financed. As a result, submission materials must be of the highest professional quality.

We’re also closely following the developments of the WGA lawsuit against four major talent agencies, their new Code of Conduct, the firing by WGA members of their talent agencies and the counter lawsuits by talent agencies against the WGA. We can advise producers with respect to packaging fees charged by talent agencies and how the lawsuit and firing of talent agencies by WGA members currently affects the talent agency packaging system currently still in place by most talent agencies.

In the creative stage of development, we can draft collaboration agreements, work for hire agreements, copyright assignments and other contractual agreements to ensure that a producer is the sole owner of all the underlying rights to their project and to ensure that when an E&O insurance legal opinion is requested by an insurer, they will be able to confirm the proper legal contracts have been signed with every participant in the creation and development of the project.

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson can assist a film or television producer to obtain development money and to structure a development money deal, film investments and we can review and negotiate a producer’s pre-sales and negative pick-up domestic and foreign distribution agreements.

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson has reviewed and negotiated book and script options, life story agreements, shopping agreements and with our expertise in copyrights, trademarks and licensing, we can assist a producer in securing the rights to any of the underlying rights to their project.

With securing investor money so crucial to a producer, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson can advise producers when it’s necessary to have an experienced securities lawyer prepare a private placement memorandum known as an offering to passive investors, the requirements for qualifying for an exemption from registration, and when an offering is not required when obtaining investments from accredited investors. We’re also familiar with California securities laws, venture capital investment and debt financing,

With decades of experience in corporate law and formations, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson will explain the advantages and disadvantages of sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, limited and general partnerships and LLCs. We can also handcraft an LLC operating agreement to fit the structure and plans of a producer’s team for their umbrella LLC and create individual LLCs for each project which becomes ready for development.

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson will help a producer develop a plan for submitting their film to the right film festivals for the producer’s film and for being prepared with an experienced festival team including sales agents, a website for the film, a Facebook page, trailers, a movie poster, and other materials in order to hit the ground running with a cohesive advertising and publicity campaign formulated in advance.

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson can also assist a producer to develop the most appropriate marketing plan for distribution for all of the various platforms and markets and advise them when it’s best to fragment distribution and retain certain areas of distribution for themselves. If a negative pick-up, pre-sales deal or minimum guarantee is not available or in a producer’s interest, we’ll advise a producer accordingly.

Having written on the changes streaming is having in the entertainment industry and changing strategies by streaming platforms, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is particularly knowledgeable in the area of streaming VOD platforms and services, and we can advise a producer the best way to approach streaming services if a producer is interested in marketing a project to them. We’ll also advise a producer on the advantages and disadvantages of retaining an aggregator.

We can draft all of a producer’s production contracts and we are extremely knowledgeable in drafting, negotiating and reviewing actor contracts, and how to structure profit participation contracts to protect an actor’s back end points.

With our knowledge of the music industry, we’re also knowledgeable in the complex field of film music licensing, and drafting composer agreements, and music supervisor contracts.

When you need a California entertainment attorney for any stage of a film or television project production, for any corporate matters or pre-production, production and post-production agreements, the right choice is Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson.

Examples Of Entertainment Contracts

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson understands that, in an effort to promote their work, artists of all kinds are sometimes pressured to sign contracts that don’t always benefit them in the long run. Sebastian Gibson aims to protect young artists. Some of the types of entertainment law contracts he can prepare and negotiate for you include:

• Actor and Director Agreements
• Artist Management Agreements
• Band Member Agreements
• Cable, Internet and Television Broadcast Agreements
• Celebrity Endorsement Deals
• Confidentiality Agreements
• Content Acquisition Agreements
• Co-Production Agreements
• Copyright and Trademark Licensing Agreements
• Development and Production Agreements
• Distribution Agreements
• Entertainment Venue Agreements
• Film and Television Agreements
• Independent Contractor and Work for Hire Agreements
• Live Performance Agreements
• Management Agreements
• Merchandising Agreements
• Model Management Agreements
• Music Publishing Agreements
• Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Personal Management Agreements
• Recording Contracts
• Royalty Agreements
• Social Media Influencer Management Agreements
• Songwriting Agreements
• Sports Star Agreements
• Synchronization Agreements
• Talent Agency and Employment Agreements
• Theatrical Agreements
• Touring Agreements

Choosing the Right Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson can provide you with entertainment event contracts and agreements and advise you on issues and arrangements involving sponsorship agreements, merchandise and licensing contracts, vendor agreements and other contracts for services at entertainment events, concerts, live performances, festivals, world tours, athletic events, sporting tournaments and competitions, and sponsor parties for music festivals and athletic events.

When you need a California Entertainment Attorney for artist agreements, personal management agreements, live performance contracts, licenses, permits, releases or agreements with cities and agencies, tour managers, artist managers, artist business managers, promoters, conductors, stage managers, sound engineers, lighting operators and crews, security, rehearsal space, recording studios, film and television producers, social media influencers, photographers, or modeling agencies, the right choice is Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson.

Whatever your needs for the entertainment event, live performance, festival, athletic competition, sponsor party, world tour arrangements for performances, film music licensing, entertainment agreements for a television or film production or a songwriter agreement, Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the right choice to assist you in your endeavor.

Don’t be caught by surprise.  Call Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson

Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson has been named a 2024 Top Lawyer for the 14th year in a row by Palm Springs Life Magazine.

He is frequently asked to assist journalists and reporters and just prior to Shepard Smith’s resignation from Fox News was asked to appear on his show as a celebrity lawyer. He has also been requested to appear on ITV National News in London to discuss the lawsuit filed by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex for invasion of privacy for photos taken of their son, Archie by unknown paparazzi.

When you need an attorney for an entertainment or business matter, reach out to the California law firm of Palm Springs And Orange County Entertainment Attorney Sebastian Gibson in Palm Springs and Newport Beach at (760) 776-1810.  Sebastian Gibson has now been named a 2020 Top Lawyer by Palm Springs Life Magazine for the 10th year in a row.