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With over twenty years of private practice and in-house experience, Jody Simon has worked on virtually every kind of deal in the entertainment industry in such areas as feature films, publishing, music and live stage. Mr. Simon’s current practice stresses overall representation of television networks, production companies and executive producers in all aspects of development, production, distribution and the negotiation and drafting of agreements and counseling in copyright, trademark and clearance issues. He works extensively on licensing, branding and merchandising deals for clients including marquee performers, video game publishers, auto manufacturers, and universities. Mr. Simon works in both live-action and animated programming and has unique strength in reality television and Canadian and other international co-productions.
Mr. Simon is a member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Entertainment Industry Advisory Council. He is currently a Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Chair of the Academy’s Runaway Production Committee. He has also served on the Executive Committee of that organization and as Bylaws Chair. Mr. Simon is called upon as an industry insider to speak at seminars such as the 2005 Banff Television Festival and the NATPE Convention, where he moderated a panel in January 2004, as well as the Financial and Management Executives in Television conference. Most recently, he was a speaker at the Telcom 05 conference on the subject of internet television.
Mr. Simon began his entertainment career in New York, in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency. He worked in the theatrical and publishing departments of the agency before leaving to attend Columbia Law School, where he graduated among the top five in his class . Mr. Simon has worked at some of the leading entertainment boutiques in New York and Los Angeles and developed in-house experience as a Director of Business Affairs at NBC Entertainment.
Representative Clients
BBC Worldwide Productions
Mercedes-Benz, USA
University of Southern California
GRB Entertainment
Trustees of IATSE Local 44
PB&J Television
Liquid Theory, Inc.
Liberal Media
GoTV
Education
Columbia Law School, New York, NY, J.D., 1982
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, B.A. in Liberal Arts, 1975
Editor, Columbia Law Review
Notes Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts
Beck Property Prize
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1980, 1982
James Kent Scholar, 1981
Bar Admissions
California, 1991
New York, 1982
Professional and Community Organizations
M/E Insights Newsletter, Editor
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Governor
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Chair, Runaway Production Committee
Governor Schwarzenegger Entertainment Industry Advisory Council, Member
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Member, Executive Committee, 2002
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Chair, Bylaws Committee, 2001-2003
Published Articles
“Into the Fray,” Emmy Magazine Special Issue on Runaway Production, December 2004.
Co-author (with Arnold Peter) of “Facing Reality,” Los Angeles Lawyer 21st Annual Entertainment Law Issue, May 2005.
“The Collapse of Consensus: Copyright and the Deregulation of Cable Television,” 81 Colum. L. Rev. 612.
Jody Simon
Raskin Peter Rubin & Simon
1801 Century Park East, 23rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(310) 277-0010
(310) 277-1980 (FAX)
jsimon@raskinpeter.com
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