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The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide (3rd Edition)
by Stephen F. Breimer
One of the most powerful entertainment lawyers in Hollywood provides easy-to-understand, expert advice for writers, agents, attorneys, and film students on all the legal issues involved in the business of screenwriting. Breimer gives a concise and enlightening explanation of the screenwriter’s position in the industry, offering an illuminating overview of contracts, options and purchase agreements, writing assignments, copyright, collaboration agreements, the producer’s role, and working with agents and lawyers. Without question the most definitive, authoritative guide to making deals and doing business as a screenwriter, this is an indispensable resource for both fledgling and established writers that will help them to negotiate the best deal, protect their work, and get fair compensation for it.
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Reviews
“If you’ve finished that screenplay and don’t know how to market it, you’ll want to get The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide.”
—U.S. News & World Repor
“It’s an important book. It makes the almost always indecipherable clear, and for that, all screenwriters should give Stephen Breimer thanks.”
—Peter Hedges, screenwriter, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Map of the World, About a Boy, and Pieces of April
“The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide is a real eye-opener. It creates an illuminating overview of the legal aspects that must become part of every screenwriter’s vocabulary. . . . It is a book that should be in every screenwriter’s library.”
—Syd Field, author of Four Screenplays and Selling a Screenplay
“As hard as it is to write a good screenplay, it’s still only half the game. What’s in this book is the other half—and to ignore it is to risk being eaten alive. Steven Breimer is the exception to every lawyer joke I’ve heard, and you’d be crazy not to soak up everything he has to offer in these pages. Unless you want to see your ship finally come in and then sail away without you, you should march to the counter right now, take this Legal Guide home, and start reading!”
—Jeff Arch, screenwriter, Sleepless in Seattle, Iron Will, and Sealed with a Kiss
“Navigating the shark-infested waters in a litigious world where fortunes change hands based on legal mistakes, this extraordinary handbook is a guide for anyone in or contemplating entering the entertainment business. It’s a must for those wishing to avoid or minimize problems before they impact, a primer in basic deal flow and structure from a man with decades of experience at the highest levels of the business.”
—Peter J. Dekom, entertainment attorney
“The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide demystifies screenwriting contracts. An unsurpassed and imperative reference for screenwriters, their attorneys, agents, and managers!”
—Marc H. Glick, entertainment attorney
“Short of having a brilliant idea for a movie, this is one of the best resources for the aspiring as well as the professional screenwriter.”
—Michael Peretzian, Creative Artists Agency
“This book answers every question that a writer could ask and some he or she should ask.”
—The Beverly Hills Courier
“Here is expert advice on the legal issues involved in screenwriting, with an overview of a screenwriter’s place in the industry and the role of producers, agents, and lawyers.”
—The Writer
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