SCHRODER FIDLOW, PLC

Our Services

Motion Picture & Film

Schroder Fidlow represents several major Hollywood studios and has served as production counsel on many significant theatrical, television and home video releases. We also represent independent production companies, film financiers and several distributors as well as many individual producers, writers and performers in feature film, television and radio. The Firm has extensive expertise in handling all legal and business aspects of filmmaking (including film financing, union and guild collective bargaining agreements, rights issues, and distribution arrangements).

Broadcast Media

The Firm's Broadcast Media practice includes a variety of interests in both commercial and public broadcasting. Several of our individual radio clients are nationally syndicated and one attorney has done extensive work on behalf of Clear Channel Communications in connection with their nationally syndicated radio programming. Our attorneys have also represented clients in connection with many network and cable television programs and overall production deals with cable networks such as HBO, Showtime, Discovery, A&E and COURT TV.

Literary & Publishing

Schroder Fidlow literary clients include well-established national authors to beginning writers in a variety of publishing genres. The Firm also represents several regional publishing houses and has strong experience in agent-author agreements, publishing agreements, ancillary rights disposition and magazine and newspaper syndication matters.

Music/Music Publishing

Schroder Fidlow’s work in music is generally talent-oriented and is primarily based in Nashville and in the Hip-Hop community in the Mid-Atlantic. The Firm also represents various regionally known record labels and music companies and provides legal counsel on various music publishing and administration matters. Our attorneys played the principal role in drafting a landmark state statute affecting the conduct and activities of music performing rights societies (ASCAP, BMI and SESAC).

Theater/Live Stage

Schroder Fidlow has extensive experience in the business and legal aspects of live performances and productions, including work on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional productions as well as live entertainment for theme parks. The Firm also represents several regional and local theater playhouses. One of the Firm’s attorneys has a particularly extensive background in the business of live theater, including significant producing experience prior to his legal career, as well as an undergraduate degree in theater production from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master’s degree in Theater Management from Columbia University.

Personal Appearances/Endorsements

The Firm’s attorneys have handled personal endorsements, merchandising and product placement deals for several entertainment industry professionals, eyewear designers and sports figures with such companies as Sony Consumer Products, Max Factor, Sunglass Hut and Qantas. Additionally, we represented one of the leading public speakers forums in the United States and provided counsel related to public appearances for many of its major celebrities.

Multimedia/Internet

Schroder Fidlow represents multimedia and Internet content providers around the country. Representative clients in this area include two large privately held software companies involved in CD-ROM production, distribution and licensing and during the Dot-Com boom, our attorneys also represented one of the major entertainment-related content providers, as well as several individual Internet filmmakers and artists. Additionally, one of our members is a past Executive Committee member of the Intellectual Property, Internet and New Media Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Visual Arts

One member of the Firm is an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Graduate School of Arts, a past chairman of the Virginia State Bar’s Lawyers for the Arts Committee and has been honored for his legal work by the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Another of our members has been involved with several non-profit Arts Law organizations in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with his published work regarding Copyright Law in the Arts.

Advertising & Marketing

The Firm has extensive experience in representing advertising agencies, marketing companies and branding firms on matters ranging from client agreements, broadcast and fulfillment issues to a variety of licensing and clearance issues as well as general advertising and marketing issues. Our clients range from national advertising agencies to small ad firms around the country.