Description
Danica Mathes is an entertainment, branding and creativity attorney with Bell Nunnally in Dallas, Texas, and heads the firm’s Intellectual Property and Entertainment, Advertising & Media practices. Some of the most well-known national and international brands and biggest names in entertainment have trusted Danica with their creative assets and brand reputation.
Danica has represented Grammy-winning and multi-platinum-selling recording artists, songwriters and producers, Oscar-nominated filmmakers, and authors whose books regularly appear on The New York Times Best Sellers list and are adapted into motion pictures and television shows.
She provides comprehensive legal services to film and TV production companies, producers, directors, actors and screenwriters, reality show and docuseries participants, broadcast and podcast personalities, producers and studios, movie theatres, brand owners, advertising agencies, as well as investors in entertainment properties and ventures.
Danica regularly advises clients with respect to content, music, brand and other intellectual property rights and licensing, fair use, production and distribution agreements, and related matters. She also provides guidance regarding promotions and advertising compliance, sweepstakes, contests, sponsorships, and endorsements, branded entertainment initiatives, influencer marketing, and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) arrangements, digital and interactive media matters, broadcast and merchandising rights, , and related issues.
A frequent presenter and author, including on her I’M WITH THE B(R)AND® blog (imwiththebrand.guru), Danica was an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Entertainment Law since 2007.