Gordon Firemark

Gordon Firemark

Gordon Firemark is a lawyer specializing in entertainment, media, and business law. He is known as the "Podcast Lawyer" and offers online courses and information products to help people understand the legal structures and strategies they need to have in place when creating a podcast. He also advises avoiding legal issues when using artificial intelligence and deep fakes. He emphasizes the importance of having a release form in place to protect oneself from potential lawsuits. He can be found on social media and his podcast, and his website GordonFiremark.com has links to his online courses, forms and templates library, and more information. He also does speaking engagements outside the podcasting realm, such as for entrepreneurs, YouTubers, media creators, and more.

Action Items

Obtain written permission from guests before recording them for a podcast.
Create a release form to protect the podcast from potential lawsuits.
Understand the consequences of not obtaining the necessary permissions and releases.
Visit GordonFiremark.com to sign up for his podcast, access online courses, forms and templates library, and more information.
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Bio

Gordon Firemark helps creatives, artists, entrepreneurs, and others achieve the dream of getting their messages out and making a meaningful impact with their craft.

He has practiced media, entertainment, and business law since 1992 and is often referred to as The Podcast Lawyer™.

A podcaster himself, he’s been producing and hosting the Entertainment Law Update podcast since 2009. In 2020, he launched the More, Better, Faster podcast, which offers insights and advice to creative professionals and businesses who want to achieve more, better, faster. Gordon is the author of the Podcast Blog & New Media Producer’s Legal Survival Guide and creator of several online courses for creatives.

His undergraduate degree in radio, television, and film and his experience in live theatre production informs his thinking about all things legal. In addition to his busy law practice, He teaches Entertainment Law at Columbia College Hollywood, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and Contract law at Pepperdine Law School.