Ms. Nancy Carol Prager

Prager Law LLC

Nancy C Prager is a corporate and intellectual property attorney with clients in the entertainment and technology industries, as well as a wide variety of other businesses and individuals too.  Nancy serves as counsel to producers, production companies, and production services companies on film and television projects with micro and big budgets alike. As production counsel, she handles everything from acquisition of rights through distribution of completed projects.  Nancy has negotiated film and television distribution and purchase agreements with Paramount, PBS, WBD, Amazon, AMC, BET, and Netflix among others.

Nancy represents writers and creators who are developing film, television shows and podcasts.   As counsel, Nancy advises her creator clients on everything from First Amendment issues to distribution agreements.  Her clients’ podcasts have been produced by Campside Media and Wondery, and documentaries licensed by PBS and affiliated programs.    

In the music industry she has handled complicated copyright matters for licensees as well as licensors, including negotiating with all of the major publishing companies and record labels.  Additionally, she was part of the legal team that opposed the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 2010.  Recently, she represented a group of musicians who were not receiving royalties they were owed on sound recordings from the SAG-AFTRA AFM Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund.

Nancy has significant experience advising clients in brand and merchandising deals as well as influencer and sponsorship agreements.  Nancy has negotiated rights deals for the use of everything from Hello Kitty® characters to James Earl Jones’ voice in Star Wars®.  Significantly, Nancy has represented brands and agencies through multi-million-dollar influencer and talent engagements for campaigns on Twitch, Instagram and other platforms. 

Nancy is a highly sought-after speaker and writer on intellectual property and entertainment related issues.  She has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as written for CNET, Georgia Entertainment News and other outlets.  Nancy is on the board of directors of RE:IMAGINE, a non-profit focused on providing training and opportunities for the next generation of storytellers and creators to gain experience in the entertainment industry. She also serves as board advisor to WIFTA and Film Impact Georgia.