Matt Bloomgarden
Matt Bloomgarden is the Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Television. Alloy is a book packaging company as well as the production company behind the hit TV shows Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. Matt’s practice is focused on contracts and copyright in publishing, film and television. Matt has drafted and negotiated hundreds of US and international deals at all levels including publishing agreements, writer agreements, collaboration agreements, magazine agreements, ebook agreements, audio agreements, option/purchase agreements, shopping agreements, and boilerplates.
Prior to joining Alloy/Warner Bros. Matt was in-house counsel at The Wylie Agency where his clients included Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs, Dave Eggers, Henry Kissinger, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, John O’Hara, Larry McMurtry, Miranda July, McSweeney’s and more.
Matt has worked with the Hachette Book Group drafting agreements and consulting on copyright matters for imprints such as Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown and Company.
Matt has lectured at Cardozo Law School on fair use law and published an article on fair use in the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.
Matt received his J.D. at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Brown University. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his wife and two children.