DESCRIPTION Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon's Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights. Amazon Studios has an opening for an Associate Corporate Counsel to support scripted and unscripted projects to be produced in the United Kingdom. Maisel, Jack Ryan, The Boys, Carnival Row, The Rig, Clarkson's Farm, Road to a Million, and Devil's Hour.
As Associate Corporate Counsel for the UK Studios team, you will handle all legal aspects of development, production, and marketing of original TV content to support Amazon's expanding scripted and unscripted television initiatives in Europe. This includes developing forms and policies, structuring, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of agreements such as rights option and acquisition agreements, writer agreements, producer agreements, production services agreements, co-financing agreements, above-the-line talent agreements, documentary and reality participant and access agreements, below-the-line crew agreements, and other production-related agreements. You will be responsible for legal matters during development, production, and marketing, including rights evaluation, chain of title confirmation, clearance matters, guild issues, standards and practices review, and publicity issues. Additionally, you will analyze and interpret contracts, providing legal advice on potential risks across various international legal areas, including intellectual property, digital media, entertainment, labor, publicity rights, and regulatory compliance. Some domestic and international travel will be required.
2+ years of attorney experience in development, production, and marketing, including drafting and negotiating contracts.
# Experience working with a studio, production company, or entertainment law firm, with extensive experience in contract drafting and negotiation.
# Strong legal and business judgment.
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