The New York City Department of Small Business Services and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new grant program called the “Made in NY” Media Employee Training (MET) Program that will award $500,000 in grant funding to local media and entertainment companies. The goal of the...
A recent New York Times article, “The End of Courtship,” features insights from Jessica Massa and Rebecca Wiegand, co-founders of The Gaggle, a multimedia project, including a website that explores the landscape of modern romance. The book, The Gaggle — How The Guys You Know Will Help You Find the...
The fiscal cliff legislation signed by President Obama extends Section 181 of the Tax Code. Section 181 allows filmmakers and television producers to elect to take an immediate tax deduction for productions costing up to $15 million ($20 million if the production occurs in a qualifying low-income area) in the...
RPL Partner Nicole Page (pictured below with co-presenter, film producer and RPL client J. Todd Harris) was thrilled to be invited as a guest to speak at the Napa Valley Film Festival. Ms. Page was a member of the Faculty of the Artists in Residence Program on Thursday, November 8, 2012, discussing...
The Oscar®-nominated documentary The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306, produced by RPL Client Margaret Hyde for the National Civil Rights Museum, will air nationally on the Documentary Channel through January 2013. Through the recollections of civil rights activists, including Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles, Maxine Smith and Dr....
RPL clients Rebecca Wiegand and Jessica Massa, authors of The Gaggle — How The Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want, were the subject of a New York Times Article discussing their modern approach to relationships. RPL attorneys Nicole Page and Niki Cubides provided legal services...
RPL congratulates firm client Patrick Sammon on the New York theatrical premiere of his film, CODEBREAKER on Thursday, October 25th at the AMC Empire in New York City. CODEBREAKER tells the story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician credited as the driving intellectual force behind the development of the computer in...
New York State recently enacted a law increasing the percentage of tax credits available for post-production film work performed in New York State. The tax credit is expected to incentivize more production companies to do business in New York. New York State began offering tax credits to support the film and...
Congratulations to RPL Partner Nicole Page for her article featured in the May-June issue of Real Screen Magazine discussing how U.S. television production companies can retain international rights in their programs.
Recent layoffs at Dewey & LeBeouf LLP have highlighted the federal worker protection under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2102, et seq., or WARN Act. (Some states, including New York, have enacted respective WARN acts, which differ in some aspects from federal law.) Enacted...