Top Rated Entertainment & Sports Attorney in New York, NY

Honors/Awards:

• Selected by Chambers USA as a leading business lawyer in New York City for Transactional Entertainment work., Chambers USA, 2005
• Selected to Best Lawyers in the USA for 2019 and 2020 in Music., Best Lawyers, Best Lawyers, 2019
• Entertainment Law Firm of the Year, New York, Corporate INTL Magazine, UK, 2013
• Selected by Chambers USA as a top Media and Entertainment Lawyer in NYC for 2012
• "Marc Jacobson of Marc Jacobson, P.C. impresses clients with his versatility and in-depth specialized industry knowledge. He runs a virtual law firm and continues to focus on the film and television industries. “You cannot do better than Marc – he is fast, tenacious, detail-oriented, proactive, responsive and sensitive to the needs of the clients.”, Media & Entertainment Lawyer in NYC, Chambers USA, 2013

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Founding Chairman, New York State Bar Association Section on Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law., 1984
• Executive Committee Member of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers., 2011
• Member, Copyight Society of the USA., 1977

Representative Clients:

• Clients include actors, recording artists, songwriters, music publishers, managers, talent agents, film producers, screenwriters, film directors, financiers and others.Over the years I've provided legal services to: Shakira, Fergie, Meg Ryan, Cathy Lee Crosby, Rip Torn, Jimmy Webb, Herb Ritts, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Ronan Tynan, Julianne Moore, Annie Roboff, Eileen Fulton, Colleen Zenk, Claudia La Bianca, Katarina Morhacova, Deborah Gibson, Davy Jones, Linda Yellen, Tony Glazer, George Butler.  Digital Music Companies, such as Qtrax,Goom Radio, TouchTunes Music Corporation, SpiralFrog.  Movies such as: "Texasville," "The Last Film Festival," "Conviction," "Junction," "Good Day For It," "Doorman" and many others.  TV shows and Webisodes include: "Cube Fabulous," "World Office Sports," "Bikini Barbers," "Workout."  Music Publishers and Record Comapnies include: BMG Music Rights, XIX Entertainment,  Casablanca Media, Kobalt Music Publishing, Roba Musikverlag, Carlin America Music, EMI Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Famous Music Publishing, Zomba Records. Talent Agents/Managers: Roger Paul,  J. Michael Bloom & Associates  and many more. 

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• ***Lobbied Clinton Administration Officials, and Congress and testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Digital Milennium Copyright Act.  Testified before the World Intellectual Property Organization regarding amendments to the Berne Convention on the same issue. Late 1990's. ***Co-authored the brief, with many others, which the US Supreme Court found persuasive in overturning the Communications Deceny Act, and which held that the restrictions on Internet Speech should be as little as possible. Circa 1997. ***As President of www.politics.com won the coveted Webby Award for the best political website in 1998, defeating all the major news networks and newspapers.

Videos:

• Discusses the differences between financing and producing independent motion pictures in the US and the UK, sponsored by The Raindance Film Festival., Across the Great Divide: , Film, Financing, Television, 2020
• Discusses my views on the status of licenses in the entertainment industry in 2009.  Not much has changed since then. , Music & Film Licensing in the Current Digital Environment, 2009
• Overview of how to finance an independent motion picture., Business and Legal Aspected of Independent Film Financing, Film, Financing, Television, 2020

Educational Background:

• JD, New York University Law Center, Moot Court Board., 1977
• BA, Magna cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, Political Science, 1974