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Our clearance reports alert you to the need for obtaining many types of permission (e.g. use of music, photos, products, footage). Should you need assistance with the considerable paperwork tracking involved in rights requests and an experienced negotiator for them, we have compiled a list of recommended service providers. (see Referrals | Acquiring & Negotiating Rights)

Referrals | Law Firms is a list of law offices, that we feel confident to recommend, with experience in e&o matters or entertainment law in general.

The Library of Articles section provides links to further reading on topics related to our work: copyright, defamation, docudrama, invasion of privacy, mixed & miscellaneous, parody, product placement, right of publicity, set dressing, title searches, unauthorized use.

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Referrals | Aquiring & Negotiating Rights
  • { Ann Mayall } Ann Mayall began in film and television in 1977 apprenticing under twice Oscar–nominated filmmakers Pen Densham and John Watson at the original Insight Productions. Since 1981, she has done clearance on over one hundred productions for virtually every kind of copyright, from music, footage and stills to plays, text and “likeness” permissions for such legends as Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson and Kermit the Frog! Her particular expertise is in music, having cleared over a thousand songs from countries all over the world.

    P (613) 387-2323
    F (416) 239-4469
    E A.Mayall@rogers.com
    LI ca.linkedin.com/pub/ann-mayall/4/a77/b78

  • { BZ/Rights & Permissions, Inc. } A rights clearance service that clears rights for music, TV & film clips, photos, art, books—anything that’s copyrighted—plus celebrities. Publisher of They Never Renewed—Songs You Never Knew Were in the Public Domain
    and The Mini–Encyclopedia of Public Domain Songs.

     

    P (212) 924-3000
    F (212) 924-2525
    E bz@bzrights.com
    W BZ/Rights & Permissions, Inc.

  • { Elizabeth Klinck } Emmy-nominated Elizabeth Klinck has over 25 years of experience in researching and licensing music, archival film and photographs.

    P (705) 445-9962
    E e.klinck@rogers.com
    W elizabethklinck.com
    IMDB imdb.to/13QWE5R
    LI ca.linkedin.com/in/elizabethklinck

  • { Production Clearance & Research Services – Lesley Myers } Lesley works directly with crew, producers, production counsel and rights-holders to ensure intellectual property, copyrighted material and trademarks are cleared to appear on-camera. Lesley provides script breakdowns and reviews script clearance reports with an eye to ensuring recommendations are implemented. Lesley also works on requests from production departments (i.e. sets, props, costumes, etc.) making direct approaches to rights-holders to secure permissions. By the end of filming Lesley provides detailed documentation to producers for inclusion with deliverables to studios and distributors.

    P (905) 349-3589
    E lesley.myers@me.com
    IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0616777
    LI www.linkedin.com/in/lesleymyers

  • { My Forte Music Industry Services } My Forte Music Industry Services is a full service rights clearance agent specializing in the clearance of samples, music for film and television productions, documentaries, commercials, DVD projects and any other types of projects. The principal, Pat Shannahan, has been in business for over 25 years and has represented many major artists and producers re music and other clearances for their projects. Further information and a client roster will provided upon request.

    (818) 576-9960
    E myfortepat@aol.com

Referrals | Law Firms

Here are links to law offices with experience in e&o matters or entertainment law in general. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are able to provide title search opinions as well.

Referrals | Trademark Searching
Our company prepares script clearance and title search reports. Although we have a lot of experience (from clearing items for broadcast purposes) searching for trademarks as part of those reports, we are not trademark experts experienced with the launch of product lines. Unless the trademark searching you are requesting comes from a script we have read or is a follow-up to a title search we have prepared, we will be referring you for that searching to the trademark specialists listed below. We want to focus on the two products that are our specialty.

Library of Articles

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