Yara Benhamou
Associate
Yara handles the firm’s copyright work and the contracts creative people are asked to sign.
Yara played in bands through college and spent two years booking tours before law school, so she has read a good many bad contracts from the wrong side of the table.
She registers songs, photographs, films and code, sends takedown notices when work is copied, and reads distribution, sync and commission agreements before they’re signed.
Works on
- Copyright registrations, one work or a catalog
- Takedown notices and replies
- Sync, distribution and commission agreements
- Work-for-hire and assignment papers
Credentials
Where Yara is admitted, and where she trained
Admissions
California
2019
New York
2020
Courts
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
2019
Education
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
2019
B.A., Music, University of California, Irvine
2015
Languages
English
French
Arabic
Memberships
California Lawyers for the Arts
How she works
She asks to hear, see or read the work before she talks about protecting it. Then she reads every contract line by line with you on the call, and marks the clauses worth pushing back on and the ones that are normal.
Registrations are filed in batches when that saves you fees, and she keeps a list of what is registered and what isn’t.