Eric has extensive experience structuring and negotiating agreements in all areas of the entertainment industry, including book publishing, motion picture and television production, financing and distribution, live theatrical production, merchandising, executive employment agreements and new/digital media.
His practice includes the representation of fiction and non-fiction authors in book publishing and motion picture and television rights agreements; the negotiation of employment agreements for book publishing executives; serving as production counsel for motion picture and television productions, as well as Broadway and Off-Broadway productions; and the representation of internet companies in connection with content licensing and other matters.
Eric is Chairman of the Literary Publishing Division of the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) East Coast, the Stellar Network, the New York State Bar Association, and a Board Member of the Montclair (NJ) Arts Council. He received his B.A. with Honors from The University of Michigan (High Distinction) in 1987 and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1990, where he was an editor of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & The Arts and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Eric was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1991.
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