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The Screenwriter's Legal Guide
author:Stephen Breiner
price: $15.96
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Book Description
This authoritative guide will help both fledgling and established writers to negotiate the best deal, protect their work, and get fair compensation for it. One of the most powerful entertainment lawyers in Hollywood provides clear, expert advice on all the legal issues- involved in the business of screenwriting. He gives an enlightening explanation of the screenwriter's position in the industry and then provides a thorough discussion of contracts, options, and purchase agreements, writing assignments, copyright, collaboration agreements, the producer's role, and working with agents and lawyers.
About the Author
Stephen F. Breimer is a partner of Bloom, Hergott Diemer and Klein, in Beverly Hills, California, one of the most prestigious entertainment law firms in Los Angeles. He has worked as a film producer, writer, and story editor, and has worked on numerous TV movies including Friendly Fire and First, You Cry.
"The Screenwriter's Legal Guide" is chock-full of example documents that you may encounter in your screenwriting career. In "Protecting Your Money" there is a sample escrow agreement. In "Commissioned Screenplays" you get a certificate of authorship agreement. In "Agreements: Other Provisions to Watch Out For" are typical representations and warranties provision as well as article 28 of the WGA. Whenever the author discusses a type of agreement, sample of that agreement is provided. Overall - 9 Stars! "The Screenwriter's Legal Guide" covers just about everything you'll ever encounter in this business as a screenwriter. You'll be able to protect yourself on the legal side of this business with this handy, informative guide. Read this book, so you can protect yourself as a writer.
As hard as it is to write a good screenplay, it's still only half the game. What's in this book is the other half and to ignore it is to risk being eaten alive. Steve Breimer is the exception to every lawyer joke I've ever heard, and you'd be crazy not to soak up everything he has to offer in these pages. Unless you want to see your ship finally come in and then sail away without you, you should march to the counter right now, take this Legal Guide home, and start reading!
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