The Biz, 6th edition

The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry in a Digital World Schuyler M. Moore

Today’s film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide to negotiating that obstacle course is The Biz, a highly accessible overview of the industry’s important business, legal, and financial aspects.

Filled with industry-savvy advice, it clearly explains:

• raising financing
• business structuring
• securities laws
• budgeting essentials
• loans
• completion guarantees
• distribution deals
• dealing with the guilds
• screen credits and talent demands
• video on demand
• artificial intelligence
• virtual reality and the metaverse
• copyright, publicity, and trademark laws
• litigation problems
• film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments
• calculating net profits
• bankruptcy
• taxation of film companies
• film-industry business jargon

   …and much more, including many useful sample forms and agreements

This thoroughly updated 6^th Edition includes new sections on securities laws, artificial intelligence, defamation, union strikes, non-fungible tokens, virtual reality content, fair use, protections afforded expressive works, accounting riders, and tax audits.