IP & entertainment law

Your Mind Is Your Property.®

You made it. You should own it, license it on your terms, and be able to stop anyone who takes it. That is the whole job.

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Our vision and purpose

Keeping your worksafe and productive

Zala IP Law was founded to help creatives and entrepreneurs protect their ideas and monetize them. Protecting the work is only half of the job. The point is intellectual property that stays defensible and stays earning.

Safe and productive

Protection is the floor, not the goal. We help strategic-minded holders keep their intellectual property defensible while maximizing what it is actually worth.

At the heart of the business

Your IP is usually sitting inside your marketing, your product design, your sales targets, and your client experience. Protecting it properly is one of the few things that compounds.

Human authorship

US law exists to further “the progress of science and useful arts” by guaranteeing you the rights to your own work. We champion that principle as AI-driven creation tests it.

Rights that carry over

Name, image, and likeness now need personal branding rights, internet law, and digital privacy read together, carrying First and Fourth Amendment protections into digital space.

Your brain, your brand,your bottom line

Intellectual property drives growth and innovation, and it sits at the heart of successful entrepreneurship. Without robust legal protection, that same property is exposed to infringement and to lost revenue.

Three assets worth protecting What we cover

Your brain
The work itself: writing, music, film, softwareCopyright

Your brand
Name, logo, likeness, reputationTrademark

Your bottom line
Licences, royalties, distributionContract

What strategy is worth Annual revenue

7–15%

Higher, each year

Holders who license and manage IP deliberately

Where it decides the outcome IP-driven work

Music
Masters, publishing, sync, samplesLicensing

Film & TV
Chain of title, clearance, deliveryDistribution

Publishing
Subsidiary rights, reversion, optionsLeverage

No matter the size of your production or your portfolio, deliberate licensing and management is what turns protection into revenue. We are here to protect your intellectual property and to unlock what it is actually worth.

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The 7–15% figure is an industry estimate for holders who actively license and manage their portfolios, not a projection for any individual matter.

What we handle

One firm acrossthe whole portfolio

Zala IP Law serves creators, entrepreneurs, and production companies in Atlanta, New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, and beyond.

IP Licensing and Assignments

License with confidence. Terms drafted so the rights you keep are as clear as the rights you grant.

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Copyright & Trademark Law

Search, file, and defend. Federal registration and a response ready for the day an infringer shows up.

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Music, Film, and TV Contracts

Feel secure in your agreements. Recording, producer, sync, work for hire, and talent deals.

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Production Legal and Insurance

Be protected and compliant. Chain of title, releases, E&O requirements, and vendor paperwork.

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Music Sample and Copyright Clearance

Protect against unauthorized uses, and get your own uses cleared before the release date, not after.

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CRM & Music Publishing

Land the publishing deal, register the works, and make sure the money finds its way back to you.

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Internet Law

Tackle online infringement and defamation, from takedown notices through platform escalation.

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Personal Brand & NIL Rights

Safeguard name, image, and likeness across endorsements, collaborations, and synthetic media.

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Literary and Author Publishing Deals

Structure author and publishing agreements to keep leverage, subsidiary rights, and reversion in your hands.

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Shreepal “Shreeps” J. Zala

Founder · Principal attorney

Who you work with

Focused counselfor IP-driven business

Shreepal “Shreeps” J. Zala performed professionally as a guitarist before law school. He has been on the client side of a recording agreement, a split sheet, and a royalty statement, and he founded the firm to bring that perspective to the drafting.

Economics at Emory University, then guitar performance at the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media, then a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, where he took a certificate in Entertainment, Sports and Media Law with honors, led the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, and earned the CALI award for the top mark in Information Privacy Law. He opened the firm in 2022.

You deal with him directly. Day to day that means licensing agreements, copyright clearances, trademark filings, talent and production deals, brand partnerships, and music publishing. Part of the job is leaving you with a clearer view of what sits underneath the matter, so the next deal has fewer failure points than the last.

Practice

IP, entertainment & trademark law

Admitted

State Bar of Georgia

Jurisdiction

Federal IP, nationwide

J.D.

Georgia State University

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In their words

Responsive, plain-spoken,and hard to rattle

Reviews left by clients on Google. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Your mind is your property.Protect it today.

Bring the contract, the name, or the track. One conversation is usually enough to tell you where you stand.

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