Media and Entertainment
Our media and entertainment team delivers expert knowledge and insight to businesses and individuals across the media and entertainment industry.
We provide commercial expertise and practical advice on both contentious and non-contentious matters. We negotiate and document agreements and offer strategic and tactical advice in securing terms sought by our clients. We support and guide our clients on how best to navigate the evolving legal frameworks that govern advertising and marketing, broadcast, film, music, publishing and digital media.
The team advises on all aspects relating to content and on the legal issues involved in the development, production, and exploitation of audiovisual material in all forms, traditional and developing. Our music practice is invaluable in the context of music rights clearance and music disputes. We also advise clients on all aspects of brand development and protection and sponsorship issues.
Our clients include artists, songwriters, composers, producers, publishing and record companies, managers, music collecting societies, advertisers, trade bodies and agencies, financiers, broadcasters, distributors, exhibitors and merchandising licensors, television format owners and creators, photographers, authors, and their agents.
We support content creators from inception to distribution, providing advice on:
- Intellectual property and copyright issues
- Licensing and development agreements
- Commercial and client contracts
- Talent, record, and publishing contracts
- Trade mark infringement advice
- Distribution, clearance, and merchandising agreements
- Regulatory and structuring
- Data and data protection
- Sales of companies and catalogues
- Ownership or title disputes
- Defamation and reputation management
- Pre-publication libel