Sr Counsel, Production & Legal Affairs

Job description

Job Description The Senior Counsel position will report to into the production legal function. The Senior Counsel will be responsible for drafting and negotiating development /production related agreements will conduct production clearance review of content, and render legal advice with respect to Starz’s slate of original programming. Responsibilities: - Drafting and negotiating development agreements and related documentation (e.g. rights acquisition, writer producer, non-writing EP and other similar agreements) - Drafting and negotiating production related documents (including location agreements, leases, content/clip licenses) - Rendering day to day production review (including script review and production clearance work, such as title clearance and fair use assessment) and providing legal advice to creative and production executives, and other production personnel - Solid understanding of copyright and issues involve right of publicity, defamation and privacy - Conducting chain of title review and assessment; reviewing, interpreting and advising business executives about contracts generally - Other responsibilities at the direction of the VP and SVP of Legal Affairs Experience...