We represent creative talent, record labels, music publishers, booking agents, artists managers, entrepreneurs, concert promoters, and executives. GCVA serves all genres of music, with a special concentration in the area of Latin Music. Our mission is to artists and producers protect copyrights, structure royalties, and create deals that take into account innovation and emerging platforms in today's landscape of music, culture, and the arts.
Our practice areas include:
Music
Film and Television
Celebrity licensing and endorsement
New Media
Fashion and Merchandising
Entrepreneurship
Services
We offer all legal services required by creative talent and producers of creative talent, as they develop careers.
- Structure and negotiate and agreements of all types including recording, publishing agreements, producer agreements, management agreements, songwriter agreements, sample license agreements, booking agents and promoter, management, partnership and joint venture, trademark and personality merchandising agreements.
- Provide general business and legal advice and strategy.
- Address Infringement and copyright disputes, intellectual property counseling. Advise with respect to actual or potential and other intellectual property claims and disputes.
- Solicit and negotiate the sale of and /or purchase of music catalogs, including master recording rights, music publishing, and royalty entitlements
- Pursue the recovery of royalties, oversee royalty audits, and pursue statutory termination of assignments of copyright.
- Create distribution agreements
- Trademark and celebrity licensing, endorsement and sponsorship agreements.
- Counseling and collaboration with litigator
- Expert industry advice to litigators
- Represent talent in television production, reality shows, development agreements, and life story rights. Assist producers acquiring life rights and life story rights, or rights to literary properties.
- AI licensing and representation.
- We represent the estates of songwriters.
- Offer legal representation to creators and producers of podcasts