Art, Streaming & Entertainment Law.
Seeing the whole field — economics, technology, IP, cultural infrastructure.
§Seeing the whole field — economics, technology, IP, cultural infrastructure.
What we watch
Seeing the whole field — economics, technology, IP, cultural infrastructure.
How we sit
Art, Streaming & Entertainment Law is the discipline of representing the people who make culture and the businesses that move it. Streaming is not an addendum to entertainment law — it is the central economic fact of the field. Royalty structures, platform-specific terms, the difference between a deal that pays a creator and a deal that looks like it pays a creator, the way a master recording's revenue flows through six platforms and three intermediaries before it reaches the artist. We know this terrain. We also represent fine artists — gallery agreements, tokenization of physical works, postmortem rights, archive transfers — and the cultural businesses that move work between markets.
When you should call
For our clients in this space, our Juris Automata platform builds custom agents that monitor opportunities: new streaming markets, gallery openings, licensing deals, platform terms changes, infringement alerts. The agents do not replace counsel. They make sure the artist or business owner sees what is happening before it is too late to act.
Begin the relationship.
Begin a conversationIf a single matter is what you need, begin here.
Each card below is a discrete deliverable — scoped, drafted, executed, and closed.
Entertainment & Digital Media Law
Read platform terms closely and negotiate master rights so creators keep long-tail value.
Begin the matterFine Art Transactions & Provenance
Blind escrows, thorough provenance checks, and fiduciary protections for high-value physical transfers.
Begin the matterMusic & Streaming Licensing
Dissect complex licensing agreements, negotiate master rights, and ensure creators capture long-tail streaming value.
Begin the matterArtist Estates & Archives
Structure legal architectures to manage postmortem publicity rights, authenticate provenance, and defend against unauthorized replicas.
Begin the matterEntertainment Law
Counsel for creators and production companies in film, music, and digital media.
Begin the matterFrom the desk.
Notes, letters, and long-form pieces we have published on this discipline.
- Field noteOptioning a book or life rights: what you're really buyingRead
- Field noteThe consignment statute: what a New York gallery agreement must sayRead
- ArticleArt law in New York City: galleries, artists, and collectorsRead
- ArticleEstate planning for artists and collectors in New YorkRead
- Field noteProducer agreements and the back-end splitRead
- Field noteLoan-out companies for actors, directors, and writersRead
- ArticleSelling and consigning art in New YorkRead
- ArticleMusic rights in the streaming eraRead
- ArticleFinancing an independent film in New YorkRead
- ArticleChain of title for film and televisionRead
- ArticleSpecial-purpose production entities for film and seriesRead
- ArticleArt, streaming & entertainment law — the legal architecture of a creative lifeRead
No discipline stands alone.
Art, Streaming & Entertainment Law touches every other practice we hold. Here is where the seams are.
Artist estates, postmortem rights of publicity, archive disposition, charitable giving of works.
Enter Estate PlanningGallery leases, studio acquisitions, and venue agreements.
Enter Real EstateCopyright registration, master and publishing splits, brand and trademark strategy, licensing across platforms.
Enter IPVoice/likeness AI consent, AI-generated music and film rights, digital-replica regulation, training-data licensing for creative corpora (Reddit/News Corp/UMG-Udio model).
Enter AI LawNFT art, tokenized royalties, on-chain rights management, fan-token structures.
Enter Crypto & Digital Assets