scheduled workshop

Entertainment law

Wed 22 February 2023
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Eric Birnberg is an entertainment lawyer with hands-on experience in film and television production and distribution, and broadcasting. He is a partner in the Toronto-based law firm Lewis Birnberg Hanet Bobadilla, LLP, and the Toronto-based company Behind the Scenes Services Inc. which handles a full range of business affairs and administration services for Canadian film, television and digital media producers.

Proper legal planning for your project should ensure a smooth production and distribution process, allowing you to focus your main energies on the project’s creatives, and its physical production. Topics to be covered include rights acquisition, clearances and E&O insurance, cast and crew deal terms and contracts, public and private financing arrangements, tax credit planning, and interim financing arrangements.


** THIS WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE**
  • maximum capacity: 10
  • 2 hours of instruction

Instructor: Eric Birnberg

 A corporate lawyer by trade, Eric spent eight years with Alliance Atlantis, Canada’s then-largest integrated filmed entertainment company, holding senior management positions including Sr. VP, Business & Legal Affairs for the Television Group, and General Counsel to the entire Alliance Atlantis organization. Earlier in his career, Eric was Legal Counsel at Canada’s preeminent pay television network, The Movie Network.
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