Filmmaker's Book is Updated for Social Media and Changing Economy

Rapid changes in the economy and within social media has prompted New Hampshire entertainment attorney and Hamline University Law Professor Jon Garon to substantially update his popular filmmaker's handbook, The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films, to address strategies for financing film, completing principal photography, and obtaining distribution.

Newly updated and expanded, this second edition explores concepts such as executing a digital distribution strategy through the use of YouTube and "webisodes," the importance of international distribution, and legal issues particular to documentaries. Six handy appendixes provide sample contracts, copyright circulars, Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, studio contact information, and more.

Copyright Basics for Musicians - Copyright Law

Jon M. Garon, an attorney with the Concord, NH, law firm, Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law, has published a new article of interest to musicians. Copyright Basics for Musicians, provides an overview of essential copyright issues that every musician should know. Copyright is an important issue that drives the music business, yet many artists have very little understanding of copyright, and may often rely on knowledge about rules that have changed dramatically in the past quarter century.

To read the article, click on Entertainment Law: Music Copyrights.

Additional books and articles by Professor Garon can be found at www.lawbizbooks.com. He also writes a blog, Entertainment and Entrepreneurship.