Andrea Bari

Andrea "Andy" Bari spent more than 12 years negotiating, drafting, and administrating entertainment contracts as a publisher and producer, and worked behind the camera in major motion pictures, as a music consultant for independent films, and in-house with production companies such as De Line Pictures at Warner Bros. and Tom Hanks’ Playtone.

Bari subsequently worked for two law firms and as a legal researcher for the United Nations Special Rapporteur in Cultural Rights (Karima Bennoune, Esq.). He has contributed as a key expert witness, aiding judges’ rulings with regards to the duties of trustees handling the intent of testators and settlors in IP issues. His legal research expands from the original intent and history of intellectual property to the most modern subjects between creativity and tech, such as AI.

Among his previous clients are entertainment entities such as Siccardi’s Creations, Side One Dummy, Kiefer Sutherland’s Ironworks, and Matthew McConaughey’s JK Livin’. He is currently involved in various production endeavors in traditional film and TV and is leading the creation of standards for modern uses of entertainment tech, with focus on “experiential” location-based entertainment, offering world-renown IP and traditional art in new and transcendental approaches.

In addition to teaching at Chapman, Bari has been a part-time entertainment law and business professor for the last six years at UCLA, University of La Verne and Musicians Institute in Hollywood, and is the head of XR at the Infinity Festival in Hollywood.

Bari received his juris doctorate degree from the University of California (Davis visiting Berkeley), a bachelor of arts from UCLA, and two certificates in business from the University of California (Business Law/Berkeley Center for Law and Business; Music Business/UCLA Extension).