Media & Entertainment

All industries

For many years the firm has assisted operators across the entire content value chain. Alongside record producers and their trade associations, we have represented talent of various kinds (directors, singers, actors and authors), broadcasters and publishers. Our assistance covers the entire life cycle of content: from the acquisition and clearance of rights to the negotiation of licences, and from dealings with collecting societies to enforcement, including against online platforms. In recent years it has extended to the issues raised by generative artificial intelligence and to the protection and exploitation of data, including sports data.

Significant experience

• We represented a major broadcaster in a series of actions to protect audiovisual content subject to systematic infringement through illegal IPTV services.
• We took part in the defence of a major dispute between broadcasters concerning the retransmission of broadcast signals.
• We have assisted performers, in particular singers, in negotiating contracts with record labels, managers and other stakeholders.
• We have represented authors of various kinds (writers, format creators, directors) in negotiating publishing and production agreements, as well as in disputes with assignees and licensees of their rights.
• We have handled, and continue to handle, complex litigation with collecting societies of various kinds, acting for both users and rights holders.
• We have experience with databases of various kinds, including those relating to content and data feeds, also in the sports sector.
• We have managed the clearance of photographs, images of cultural heritage assets and works located in public places for a number of clients, both in traditional publishing and in the multimedia and video game sectors.
• We have drawn up guidelines and governance policies on the use of artificial intelligence for companies, with particular regard to the cultural industries, mapping the systems in use and the related liability profiles, including for the purposes of the rules on the administrative liability of legal entities.