Herbsman Hafer Weber & Frisch, LLP is a preeminent boutique law firm providing a wide variety of services to clients in the entertainment field. Their attorneys bring together legal services and business strategy to advise clients on matters relating to music, intellectual property, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, merchandising and brand building, as well as asset acquisition and sales. Their primary focus is in industries such as music and book publishing, television, motion pictures.
Named a top music lawyer by Billboard Magazine, partner Michael Frisch provides strategic legal and business counseling to clients in all facets of the entertainment industry, including the negotiation of artist recording and distribution agreements, co-publishing, administration, and licensing of musical compositions, intellectual property asset purchase and sale, personal management, name, likeness and life rights, live performances and venue rentals, merchandise and ancillary rights, spokesperson and endorsements, web and mobile-based apps, and other physical and digital content licensing for both audio and audiovisual mediums.
Mr. Frisch’s clients include gold and platinum-selling major label and independent recording artists (including Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees),the estates of well-known deceased artists, music publishing companies, record producers, mixers, and remixers, independent record labels, songwriters, personal managers, agents, app and tech developers, festival producers, music venues, magazine publishers, and other start-up and established entrepreneurs with projects relating to music, entertainment, and intellectual property licensing.
Michael Frisch is a member of the NYSBA Entertainment Law section, as well as the Committee on Music and Recording Industry, and the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) Licensing & Publishing Committee