Services

Your ideas are important to me. I cover a wide range of subjects such as media, entertainment law, intellectual property, digital creation, merchandising and branding, commercial law and privacy . Below are just some of the services I provide.

Intellectual Property

• Enforcement, both in and out of court, of copyrights against infringements by third parties, in classic as well as new media;

• Securing and enforcing appropriate remuneration for creative activities against contractual partners and collecting societies;

• Expert opinions in regards to all types of copyright matters;

• Reviewing and negotiating licensing agreements with national and international contractual partners;

• Reviewing websites, developing general terms and conditions and data privacy statements

• Open source

• Commercialization of IP, including strategic advice

• Database rights

• Domain name disputes

• Ownership issues

• Trademarks, designs and branding

ENTERTAINMENT

• FILM:  option agreements, finance, chain of title issues, talent agreements (scriptwriters, film directors, actors, composers, set designers), production and post production issues, distribution issues, advising on international co-productions, including on their structure and financing and general intellectual property issues relating to copyright and, to a lesser extent, trademarks;

• MUSIC: including talent agreements (musicians, composers) producer agreements, and synchronization rights, production agreements, music industry negotiation and general intellectual property recording contracts, issues relating to copyright;

  TELEVISION and RADIO: including broadcast licensing, regulatory issues and mechanical licenses;

• THEATER: including rental agreements and co-production agreements, and other performance oriented legal issues;

• MULTIMEDIA: including software licensing creative issues, video game development and production;

• PUBLISHING and print media issues, including advertising, models, author agreements and other copyright related issues;

• VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN: including fine arts, issues of consignment of artworks to art dealers, industrial design, issues related to the protection of graphic design elements in products.

Digital and TECH

• Web-site legal compliance

• Software end-user license agreements

• Social media law

• E-commerce law

• On-line platforms

• On-line advertising

• Unfair commercial practices

• Data-protection and privacy

• Blockchain and Smart contracts

• Artificial Intelligence