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Content legal advice is more than just spotting issues and listing out risks. It's finding the least intrusive way to protect the creative vision.
Henry Behnen has been practicing IP and entertainment law for 25 years.
At Viacom and Paramount, Henry eventually co-led the BALA Content Legal team, helping internal clients and legal partners across all Paramount brands. His work involved scripted and unscripted legal risk problem-solving, partnering and advising on transactional matters, and helping clients spanning from general counsel to on-set production designers find solutions for content risks.
At Paramount Henry's work spanned over a hundred productions, tracking the shift to streaming and digital content, the CBS and Skydance mergers, and most recently cutting-edge AI issues.
Prior to his work at Paramount, Henry worked on IP litigation at Schiff Hardin LLP (now ArentFox Schiff).
There’s no greater joy than providing clients with the best representation in pursuit of their art.
Jemar Daniel is a media and transactional attorney at Dark Matter LLP. His practice spans First Amendment, advertising, intellectual property, and contract law, with a focus on production legal, branded content, live events, and emerging issues in AI and digital media.
His clients represent a cross-section of players across traditional and new media, advertising, the creative industries, and tech and AI content creation.
Prior to joining Dark Matter, Jemar served as Vice President and Senior Counsel at Paramount, where he was co-lead of the Content Legal Team, counseling on scripted, unscripted, digital, news, podcast, and ad-sales business units on pre-production legal matters and supported numerous transactions. He helped build legal guidelines for integrated marketing units producing branded content for digital platforms.
Before Paramount, Jemar was a member of BET Networks' legal team from 2010 to 2014.
