He has also published several books and articles on those same topics including Film Finance and Distribution--A Dictionary of Terms, Film Industry Contracts, 43 Ways to Finance Your Film, The Feature Film Distribution Deal and How the Movie Wars Were Won.
He also hosts a Q&A Internet site about investor financing of entertainment projects at http://www.mecfilms.com/coneslaw/finforum.htm.
Mr. Cones is available to lecture or participate in panel discussions relating Film Finance and the more narrow topics of Investor Financing of Independent Film or Investor Financing of Business Startups. He has lectured more than 200 times to an aggregate audience of approximately 4,750 on topics relating to film finance and distribution for the American Film Institute, the UCLA graduate level Independent Producers Program, UCLA Extension, The USC Cinema/TV School, the USC Cinema/TV Alumni Association, IFP/West, American University (Washington, D.C.), the Nashville Bar Association, Cal Western School of Law, The University of Texas Entertainment Law Institute, North Carolina School of the Arts, California Lawyers for the Arts and other film industry organizations.