Serra Verde Law - Entertainment, Film Production & Technology Law

08/08/2016

Serra Verde Law is not accepting new clients at this time.

02/11/2016

Could you use a $20,000 production grant for a science based narrative film?

A non-profit arts organization that champions the independent filmmaker.

01/20/2016

Newly launched Elston Films has acquired Justin Kremer's Black List script "Bury the Lead," Variety has learned exclusively. The journalism drama will be produced by Elston Film principals Kevin Co...

01/01/2016

Happy Birthday is free to use (at long last)!

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/happy-birthday-lyrics-copyright-warner-chappell-1201657702/

12/31/2015

There’s not much to say about Aretha Franklin’s jaw- and fur-dropping performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” last night during the Kennedy Center Honors that can’t be better described by the reactions from audience members like Barack and Michelle Obama, Viola Davis, Gina Rodriguez…

12/31/2015

Wishing everyone a bright and fulfilling 2016!

11/13/2015

Judge rules that Taylor Swift, Max Martin and Shellback have shaken off their copyright infringement lawsuit. http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/us/taylor-swift-copyright-lawsuit-dismissed/

A lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of stealing another artist's lyrics for her hit song "Shake It Off" was dismissed by a judge Tuesday.

11/06/2015

Feeling thankful to have a client who shared this with me today. :)

In case you didn’t know, Friday is “Love Your Lawyer Day” — yeah, it’s a thing apparently, and has been for the past 15 years. This is the first year, however, that the day has been recognized by the American Bar Association Law Practice Council, which passed a resolution in late October to recogniz…

09/23/2015

More on the "Happy Birthday" case . . . .

None of the companies that have collected royalties on the "Happy Birthday" song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Tuesday.

09/14/2015

Shame on Alan Elliott!

The Queen of Soul has struck again to stop the Amazing Grace documentary from being shown or sold. Just one day after a private screening for potential buyers at the Toronto International Film Fest...

09/12/2015

The court found that the EPA shouldn’t have signed off on Dow AgroSciences’ sulfoxaflor, which is sold under the brand names Transform and Closer,.

08/14/2015

Conference room make-over!