Andrea Bari

Andrea "Andy" Bari spent more than 20 years negotiating, drafting, and administrating entertainment contracts as an entrepreneur, producer or manager, representing, among many, record labels such as Kiefer Sutherland’s Ironworks and Matthew McConaughey’s JK Livin’. At the beginning of his career, he carried two entertainment startups from funding to exit, worked behind the camera in major motion pictures as a consultant for independent films, and in house with production companies such as De Line Pictures at Warner Bros. and Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions.

As a key expert witness in intellectual property controversies, Bari mediates creative endeavors and aids judges’ rulings with regards to entertainment-related issues or concerns. His legal research expands from the original intent and history of intellectual property to the most modern subjects between creativity and tech, such as generative artificial intelligence. For two years he was also the chief legal researcher for the United Nations' special rapporteur of cultural rights, under the High Commissioner for human rights.

Currently, he is the producing partner of author Dan Brown and Max Siccardi, the leading director of the large-projection immersive experience medium. Among many other production and management endeavors, he works with the Infinity Festival, the leading festival merging storytelling and new media technology, as the head of XR and co-producer of its Monolith Awards.

Since January 2019, in addition to teaching at Chapman, Bari has been a part-time entertainment law and business professor at UCLA, at the University of La Verne's law school, and at the Musicians Institute.