GableGotwals offers full-service capabilities to clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s broad experience provides unique market insights to advise digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors, and financiers.
The Firm’s Sports, Media & Entertainment group is comprised of former collegiate athletes, parents of Division I athletes, musicians, members of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Law Forum, as well as intellectual property, corporate, and litigation specialists.
GableGotwals is poised to provide advice, negotiate agreements, and protect and enforce rights and claims for those who need or desire to capitalize on and protect their intellectual property, their ideas, their creations, or their name, image, and likeness, and for those who help make that possible by marketing, providing capital, digital or other platforms at venues.
GableGotwals’ areas of counsel include:
- Appearances, endorsements, and social media contracts
- Commercial, marketing, and licensing agreements
- Media rights agreements
- Corporate sponsorships and naming rights
- Drafting and negotiating NIL agreements for athletes and sponsors
- Complex digital media and technology agreements
- Mergers, acquisitions, formations, dispositions, and joint ventures
- Employment issues, including Title IX
- Intellectual property protection, including patent, copyright, and trademark
- Data privacy, piracy, and cybersecurity
- Emerging technologies, NFTs, and digital assets
- Navigating name, image, and likeness (NIL) policy and state regulations
- Legislation tracking, lobbying, and public policy
- Crisis management
- Breach of contract disputes
- Investigations
- Structuring and financing indie-length films
- Negotiating contracts with casts and crews
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