LAW OFFICE OF HEATHER NELSON

LEGAL SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT PRACTICE
1. Recording/Production Company Artist Agreements
2. Publishing/co-publishing Agreements
3. Producer Agreements
4. Work for hire Agreements (feature vocalists, background vocalists, studio musicians)
5. Songwriter agreements (for songwriters not signed as artists)
6. Performance Agreements (for venues when artists perform)
7. Copyright administration
8. Publishing company set up with ASCAP/BMI/SESEC
9. Bar code applications
10. Incorporation/LLC setup and pertinent documents
11. Trademark searches/applications/litigation
12. Administration of contracts (i.e. accounting statements to artists, producers, etc.; negotiations, etc.)
13. Contract negotiation (i.e. recording, management, producer, songwriter, P&D deals, t.v. deals, film, modeling, licensing, etc.)
14. Music Licensing
15. Sample Clearances
16. Consulting for entertainment industry clients as a whole

OTHER PRACTICE AREAS
1. Criminal Defense (state and federal)
2. Corporate (incorporations, partnerships, LLC's etc.)
3. Entertainment Related Litigation.

While this list is not exhaustive of all the services the firm provides, it gives the client a broad example of the nature of our practice.


 

  ASCAP membership reps and attorney Heather Nelson presented a panel, "Kicking Down the Door in 2004"
  The Chicago Chapter of the Recording Academy
  NABFEME NEWS!
The months on the calendar have been flippin' like crazy!
  Gene Siskel Film Center
  MORE FEATURES FOR IBU IBU was featured in Pau Hana Weekly July 8, 2004
  Entertainment attorney Heather Nelson's comments suggested
  School of Law
  NABFEME (official site)
  NUFACETV
  The American Society of Composers
  BMI
  HFA
  BESLA