RothLegal

My latest blog article. This one on "Deferrals, Residuals, and Back End Profit-Share."

Deferrals, Residuals, and Profit-Share: What to Know About Back End Compensation By: Murray A. Roth, Jr., Esq. 8/2/25Independent filmmaking is, at its core, a labor of love. It’s also a business that often runs on limited cash and maximum belief in the story, the team, and the promise that everyone involved will eventually get what they’re owed. Because budgets are tight and...

Some good info about securing name/likeness and crowd releases:

Crowd Release Notice: Audience Privacy & Incidental Use Rules — Fourscore Business Law Filming audiences? Learn how a crowd release notice, incidental use defense, and right-of-publicity rules keep you safe from privacy claims.

SAG/AFTRA has set up a new portal for producers to file all of the required union paperwork. This is supposed to make filing of the substantial SAG contracts, employment docs, cast lists, timesheets, etc. much easier.

SAG-AFTRA Launches Its Own Producer Portal to Make Dealing with Union Paperwork a Lot Easier SAG-AFTRA partnered with the PGA to launch an online producer portal to make the signatory process for productions easier.