Hollywood Accounting: Profit Participation and the use of Mediation as A Mode of Resolving these Disputes

Authors

Eric Strum, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Abstract

This Note proposes that the entertainment industry employ mediation to resolve profit participation disputes. Section II of this Note focuses on profit participation agreements through their history and their legal context. Section III provides a discussion of the arbitration and litigation of participation claims, as well as their weaknesses. In Section IV, this Note proposes the use of mediation in handling claims in the entertainment industry and a new model of mediation that would best serve profit participation disputes. With the engagement of mediation, profit participation lawsuits can be handled in the most effective and fair way for both the studio and participant.

Disciplines

Contracts | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law | Taxation-Federal

Recommended Citation

Eric Strum, Hollywood Accounting: Profit Participation and the use of Mediation as A Mode of Resolving these Disputes, 18 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 457 (2017).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjcr/vol18/iss2/8