Judith B. Bass

Judy Bass is a media and entertainment attorney with over thirty years of experience at a firm, in-house and as a business affairs executive at premier media and entertainment companies. She currently has her own practice dedicated to addressing the needs of companies and individuals in the creative community. She concentrates on literary publishing, option and shopping deals, collaboration agreements, television, film, animation, podcasts, theater, digital media and licensing.  Her clients include major book and magazine publishers, authors, content creators and developers, children’s television and film producers and property owners, podcast developers, producers and directors, talent and voiceover talent, photographers, documentary and independent film producers, non-profit theater, licensing companies and digital media entities.

Judy started her career at the law firm of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance). She then spent over twelve years at Time Inc., first in the Time Inc. Law Department where she served as Associate General Counsel. She left the Law Department to become the first and only Director of Business Affairs for her clients, Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazines. She then joined CBS as Vice President of Business Affairs at CBS Enterprises where was responsible for the structuring and negotiation of all contractual arrangements for CBS Broadcast International, CBS Video and CBS Consumer Products. After leaving CBS, she became the Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of Marvel Enterprises, working on matters involving Spider-Man and other members of Marvel’s vast character library.

Judy served as Chair of the Entertainment Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association from 2013 to 2016 and is currently a member of the Copyright Committee.  She is the First Vice-Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section (EASL) of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and Co-Chair of the EASL Literary Works Committee, as well as a member of NYSBA's Committee on Media Law. She is also a member of the Media Law Resource Center, the Copyright Society, the Author’s Guild and New York Women in Film and Television. She is a frequent speaker on bar association and industry panels and often chairs and organizes bar association programs.