About the Firm-4-3-17

Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. is a full-service entertainment law firm headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Our two attorneys, Bernard M. “Bernie” Resnick and Priscilla J. “Sally” Mattison, have combined experience of over forty years in the practice of entertainment law. The firm’s clientele encompasses recording artists, songwriters, record producers, agents, managers, filmmakers, financiers, professional athletes, record labels, international entertainment businesses, publicly-traded companies, and others. Firm attorneys have earned over 100 gold, platinum, multi-platinum, Billboard #1, Eurovision and/or BDS Certified Spin awards for deals negotiated and drafted on behalf of the firm’s music industry clients, representing sales of over 130,000,000 records. The firm regularly places client music in television programs, movies, and video games.

Bernard M. Resnick, Esq.

Bernard M. Resnick, Esq. is an entertainment attorney practicing in Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over twenty-nine years. His clients have included recording artists, songwriters, record producers, agents, managers, filmmakers, financiers, professional athletes, record labels, international entertainment businesses, publicly-traded companies, and others.

Mr. Resnick’s most recent publication, titled “Modern Methods of Monetization for Record Producers”, was included as a chapter in the annual journal issued by the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (“IAEL”), titled “The Monetization of the Global Music Business — from Creators to Major Industry”, which was published internationally in June, 2016. He co-authored chapters in IAEL’s 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2014 books and in “The Musician’s Business and Legal Guide — 4th Edition”, published by Prentice Hall for the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and he wrote or co-wrote several other articles and chapters in journals, textbooks and magazines.

Mr. Resnick taught courses in entertainment law as part of Southwestern Law School’s Entertainment and Media Law LL.M. Online program in 2011 and 2013, and at the Villanova University School of Law in 2015 and 2016.

Mr. Resnick has participated in panel discussions, presented seminars, and conducted continuing legal education classes worldwide, including for The Recording Academy, MusExpo, Liverpool Sound City, NARIP, the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers at MIDEM/MIDEMNet, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Texas State Bar Association Entertainment Law Institute, the Independent Music Conference, the Cutting Edge Music Conference, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Widener University School of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Association Symposium, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Albany County Bar Association, New Noise Santa Barbara, and Les Rencontres.

Mr. Resnick served on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Chapter of The Recording Academy from 2011-2016.  He is currently Co-Chair of the chapter’s Classical Music Committee and the Advocacy Committee. Mr. Resnick is also a musician, songwriter, record producer and music publisher. He was selected as a Grand Prize winner of the British Airways/UK Trade & Investment’s “Face of Opportunity” contest.

Mr. Resnick frequently serves as an expert witness in entertainment-related lawsuits. He has earned the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers designation from Philadelphia Magazine/Law & Politics Magazine for the past 12 years, and has earned an AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated rating from Martindale-Hubbell^®.

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Priscilla J. Mattison, Esq., LEED AP^® Homes

Priscilla J. (“Sally”) Mattison is Of Counsel to the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based firm Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. Her clients have included recording artists, songwriters, record producers, record labels, music publishers, managers, booking agencies, filmmakers, and screenwriters.

A graduate of Yale University, Ms. Mattison was also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study Communications at the Technical University of Berlin and earned a Certificate in Producing from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Before attending law school, she worked in the film and television industries in New York and Los Angeles in numerous capacities ranging from director to co-producer to casting director and more.  Ms. Mattison began her law studies at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was selected for the California Law Review and received a Moot Court Advocacy Award.  She then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, from which she received her JD.  After graduating Ms. Mattison practiced complex commercial litigation with a Philadelphia firm, and did educational outreach and policy work for Clean Air Council, a regional environmental nonprofit organization. She joined Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C. in 2000.

Ms. Mattison’s most recent article, “Modern Methods of Monetization for Record Producers”, was included in the book entitled “The Monetization of the Global Music Business — from Creators to Major Industry”, published by the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (“IAEL”) in June, 2016. Previous articles have been published in IAEL books in 2011, 2012, and 2014, and in the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music.

Ms. Mattison has been an invited speaker at Continuing Legal Education events hosted by the IAEL at the annual MIDEM convention in Cannes, France in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016; the University of Pennsylvania Law School; and Widener University School of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Association. She has taught Business Law at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and Music Business Management at Cabrini College/KAJEM Recording Arts Program. She has appeared as a speaker at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana; a symposium at Princeton University; the Lebanon Valley College VALE Media (formerly Music) Industries Conference VI, VII, XI, and XII; the Hudson Valley Songfest 6; the Algonquin Film Festival; the Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour (“PennPAT”) Roster Artists Retreat; and the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association’s Regional Music Industry Conference. She has lectured to students of Southwestern Law School’s “Entertainment and Media Law LL.M. Online” program, and at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law, and Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. She has been an invited mentor or judge at numerous entertainment industry events.

Ms. Mattison is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She belongs to the Philadelphia Bar Association, the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, and New York Women In Film & Television; is an associate member of The Recording Academy; and holds both writer and publisher memberships in BMI.

Ms. Mattison is listed in numerous Marquis Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in American Law, and was selected as a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and as a Main Line Today Top Lawyer in 2014, 2015, and 2016. She has been active in environmental matters for years, and served as an appointed member of the Radnor Township, Pennsylvania Environmental Advisory Council from 2013 to 2016. She is a LEED^® Accredited Professional (LEED AP^® Homes) and is also REGREEN Trained^™. She is also an exhibited photographer.

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Firm Services

Our firm concentrates on transactional work in various facets of the entertainment industry. Examples of the types of contracts that we have solicited, negotiated and/or drafted for our clients include:

Music:

Major label recording agreements, independent label recording agreements, international licensing agreements, production agreements, producer agreements, recording studio agreements, work for hire agreements, digital and physical distribution agreements, music publishing agreements, music publishing administration agreements, “shopping” agreements, artist management agreements, booking agency agreements, concert tour agreements, concert tour riders, merchandising agreements, celebrity endorsement agreements, side artist agreements, investment agreements

Television:

Actor agreements, life story option agreements, syndication agreements, program distribution agreements (cable, broadcast and public television), writer agreements, reality show contestant agreements, game show contestant agreements, music synchronization and master use agreements, infomercial agreements, program host agreements

Film:

Actor talent agreements, option agreements, distribution agreements, music supervisor agreements, music synchronization and master use agreements, director agreements, writer agreements, composer agreements, finder agreements

Sports:

Celebrity endorsement agreements, athlete-agent agreements, sports television distribution agreements

Book Publishing:

Author/publisher agreements, co-author and ghost writer agreements, author/agency agreements

Fine Arts:

Artist/gallery agreements, art reproduction license agreements, photographer/gallery agreements, photograph reproduction agreements, album cover art agreements

Corporate and Other:

Incorporations, fictitious name registrations, formation of limited liability companies, formation of partnerships, copyright registration, trademark and servicemark registration, partnership agreements, shareholders agreements, investor agreements, real estate leases, real estate transfers, equipment leases

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Clients

Representative current and former clients of the firm include the following:

CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL CROSSOVER MUSIC:

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Time For Three, composer Jonathan Leshnoff, flautist Susan Milan, pianist Vitalij Kuprij, Glenn Finnan & Jack Warner, Ex Umbris, Fortunes Wheel, Peter Richard Conte, Amernet String Quartet, and Budapest String Quartet

PRODUCERS, PRODUCER/WRITERS, AND ENGINEER/WRITERS:

Timbaland, Jerome “Jroc” Harmon, King Solomon Logan, Milli Beatz, Daniel Jones, Chris Godbey, BiPolar Media, Jim Beanz, Ritz Reynolds, Rick Friedrich, Billey Pettaway, Quran Goodman, Rugged Ness, Lawrence Goodman, Jae Staxx, Don Groove, Arkatechz Beatz, Collen & Webb, Saska Becker, Leon Pop Trax Huff, II, Joe Nicolo, Tyler Nicolo, David Ivory, Rich Gavalis (Bloodhound Gang), Andy Anderson, Calvin Miller, Roy “Royalty” Hamilton, Lars Hustoft, Lamont Fleming, Stan Stammers, Kaui Williams

RECORDING ARTISTS AND ARTIST/WRITERS:

Dave Mason, The Rembrandts, Pink, Us3, Salme Dahlstrom, Deep Forest, Dionne Warwick, Kathy Sledge, Lonnie Jordan, Dacav, Lindsay Pagano, Pornosonic, V.A., Janita, Anthrophobia, The Badlees, Electron Love Theory, PNB Rock, Bun B, UGK, Trina, Sincere, Garland Sebastian Mosley, Peedi Crakk, Beenie Man, Bahamadia, Schoolly D, Da Youngstas, Ram Squad, Major Figgas, Oschino & Sparks, Steph Pockets, L Myers, Freeway, Lamar L DeBois, Tommy Hill, Boy Backs, Paul Jones

LABELS:

Revel Music Group, Ultimae Records, Bobby Morganstein Productions, Chord Recordings, Tazmania Records, Metropolitan Records, Dancesport Sounds USA, DRP Records, 215 Records, Krush Unit, Chocolate Fireguard Music, Chart Noise, RuffNation/Warner Brothers Records, Kwerk Records, Pop Art Records, and Blue Mountain Records

OTHER SONGWRITERS, COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS:

Moran Hill Hurwitz, Ebony Burks, the estate of Linda Creed, and British music publisher Complete Music

MANAGEMENT COMPANIES AND AGENCIES:

Atom Factory, Cigale Entertainment, Far-N-Low Management, IMG Artists, Big Bloc Entertainment

ATHLETES:

NFL players Brent Celek, Martellus Bennett, Jacoby Jones; motocross champion Stefy Bau; and various Olympic athletes

TELEVISION AND RADIO:

Classic rock radio producer/programmer Denny Somach; DJ Cory Ak; radio and club DJ Terry Love Barrett; radio DJ Hy Lit; How Hard Could It Be? hosts Vin Marshall, Eric Gocker, and Paul Carson; and nationally-syndicated public television cooking program The Presidential Palate

FILM:

Production companies 9.14 Pictures, Mega Mace, and LS Films

FINE ARTS:

Painter Lisa Learner, photographer Scott Weiner, photographer Stephanie Jennings

CORPORATE AND OTHER:

Villanova University, clothing store chain Forman Mills, infomercial companies Magic Media International and Creative Products International, medical journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, publicly-traded children’s television company Earthworks Entertainment, and digital music service Megabeatz