Copyright and entertainment law
We advise companies and individuals in protecting their intellectual creations, thus generating the necessary conditions for the development and optimization of their businesses and commercial activities in the world of culture, art and entertainment.
Our clients include authors, artists, film production companies and celebrities agents, whom we support in all their contractual arrangements.
We offer our services with an interdisciplinary approach including the regulatory matters, contractual disputes, exchange, labor, tax and competition issues necessary for the success of our client’s interests.
Copyright
• Economic Copyrights’ Assignment Contract.
• Registration before the Copyright Office.
• Dispute resolution (judicial and extrajudicial).
Entertainment
• Contracts, agreements and memoranda of understanding for the development of projects in the sector.
• Representation and management before municipal and national authorities.
• Review of legal advertising and marketing.
• Matters relating to competition.
• Product Placement Contracts.
• Advisory in the management of artists and celebrities image rights.
• Films: We offer counseling based on Film Law. We manage audiovisual projects from the design stage through financing, production, preproduction, shooting, postproduction and marketing. We also offer legal advise in production contracts (shooting), developing, digital, editing, music score, sound edition, among others, distribution, advertising, marketing, exhibition and exploitation contracts of film productions; compliance with insurance policies. We provide legal advice on the compliance with the legal conditions for the recognition of works as national productions and / or co-productions (compliance with domestic and foreign investment, technical staff required, etc.).
• Arts: Drafting of management contracts, advice on exploiting means of works sold by lithographs or audiovisual media, advice on managing royalties, exhibition and sale of work contracts and in registration of copyright.
• Music: We offer legal assistance to music artists and their works’ registration. We draft management and other types of services contracts with artists and musicians. We design legal strategies and give advice on tax and intellectual property matters. We conduct proceedings before special purpose collective associations (such as Sayco and Acimpro).
• Publications: We offer legal counseling in book publishing contracts, obtaining ISBN book legal deposit, and other related matters.
• Sports: We give advise on labor contracts and management contracts.