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Counsel at PRYOR CASHMAN LLP
Josh’s practice focuses on intellectual property, business, and commercial transactional law in the digital media, entertainment, and technology industries. He serves as outside business and legal affairs counsel for traditional and new media content producers, technology service companies, mobile app and video game developers, social media and interactive online media companies, creative agencies, design studios, content creators and digital influencers, and media agencies serving brands and marketers in the media and entertainment, consumer product, retail, travel, financial services, and technology spaces.
Josh also has significant experience advising private equity financiers, institutional lenders, production companies, rights owners, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits on diversified corporate, intellectual property, and entertainment-related financing transactions for motion pictures and television, digital platforms, theatrical productions, experiential and immersive productions, and technology, social media, podcasting, and gaming companies, including on corporate and business planning, equity investment, debt financing (including production loans, bridge loans, gap financing, and tax credit and production incentive financing), secured transactions, and rewards-based and securitized crowdfunding.
In his trademark practice, Josh works strategically with businesses to identify and develop portfolios of strong trademarks and to protect their brand integrity and intellectual property by performing usage and rights clearances, prosecuting applications for registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and enforcing their rights against infringers.
Previously, Josh was a senior associate at other major New York entertainment, intellectual property, and technology law firms. During law school, he interned with a prominent entertainment and intellectual property law firm, Tough Mudder, and the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center (now part of BSE Global), and served as a student clinician with the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy (BLIP) Clinic, which offers pro bono legal services to entrepreneurs and pre-revenue startups.
As new formats emerge, the exploitation of literary works is expanding beyond traditional film and television adaptations. This panel will explore how evolving formats, such as full-cast audio productions and vertical shortform adaptations, fit within the existing rights framework. Our panel will also discuss the intricacies of book based… Read More