and is no longer accepting applicants, Roku was looking for a lawyer with “substantial experience in television and film production either at a studio, network, streaming service or entertainment law firm,” as well as experience working with Hollywood guilds and unions. Reps for Roku didn’t respond to a request for comment.to acquire global rights to more than 75 of Quibi’s original shows
. Roku said it plans to stream those for free in 2021 on the Roku Channel. The company paid “significantly” less than $100 million under the deal with Quibi, the well-funded startup led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman that folded six months after launching after failing to gain traction. “We believe in this broader AVOD [ad-supported video-on-demand] trend,” Roku VP of programming Rob Holmes toldin an interview last month. “At a very high level, we know that our users engage in a very significant way with free content.”, and that the Roku Channel reached U.S. households with an estimated 61.8 million people in Q4.
Roku’s job listing for a lead production attorney referenced the company’s “original episodic and feature length productions,” covering aspects of production deals including option purchase agreements and script acquisition agreements; agreements to hire writers, actors, directors and individual producers; production services agreements; and below-the-line agreements including for department heads, location agreements, clearances, prop rental agreements, likeness releases and credit memos.
The job listing also specified a minimum of eight years of “relevant legal experience” and “membership in good standing with the California Bar, or the ability to register as In-House Counsel in California.”
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