by Gano Lemoine | Oct 7, 2010 | Copyright, Film Producing, Filmmakers, Life Rights, Music Licensing, Privacy Rights, Producing, Public Domain, Publicity Rights, Screenwriting, Television Production, Uncategorized
This week I had the honor of being interviewed on Pilar Alessandra’s excellent Podcast “On The Page,” a fantastic source of information about the craft and business of screenwriting. www.onthepage.tv The topic for the interview was “Legal and...
by Gano Lemoine | Sep 19, 2010 | Copyright, Film Producing, Filmmakers, Life Rights, Music Licensing, Novel Writing, Privacy Rights, Producing, Public Domain, Publicity Rights, Screenwriting, Television Production, Trademark
Whether you are a producer, director, screenwriter, novelist, or photographer, it is imperative you stay focused on copyright, privacy and publicity clearance issues. Having an unlicensed piece of footage in your film may mean the difference between a sale or...
by Gano Lemoine | Jul 25, 2010 | Copyright, Filmmakers, Life Rights, Novel Writing, Privacy Rights, Screenwriting, Uncategorized
Special thanks to the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for including me in their Breaking into Screenwriting Panel Friday! I greatly enjoyed hearing from my fellow panel members, Pat White, Diane Mettler, Bill Schreiber and Royce Buckingham. While they focused on...
by Gano Lemoine | Apr 19, 2010 | Life Rights, Novel Writing, Privacy Rights, Publicity Rights, Screenwriting
A question I’m often asked is whether a writer or filmmaker needs to purchase the “life rights” for a story waiting to be told. This question comes up when someone wants to tell a story involving real life events, and therefore involving people that...