Media, Entertainment and Sport
In media the value sits entirely in the chain of rights, and the chain is usually broken somewhere in the middle.
How we help
We act for producers, studios, platforms, broadcasters, agencies, brands and rights holders. Acquisition and licensing of underlying rights, including the chain of title work that determines whether a project can be financed at all. Production, co-production and financing documentation. Talent, director and writer agreements, and the statutory position on authorship that Indian law takes more seriously than most licensors expect. Distribution, syndication and platform licensing across theatrical, television and streaming. Music rights and the societies. Advertising, endorsement and influencer arrangements, together with the disclosure obligations that now attach to them. Content regulation, certification and the self-regulatory codes. Piracy enforcement and takedown at scale. Brand partnership and sponsorship, where the deliverables are usually agreed commercially long before anybody drafts them.
Rights acquisition & chain of title
Distribution & platform licensing
Advertising & disclosure compliance
Experience
The matters below are described without identifying the client, unless the client has consented in writing to being named.
Matter lines to be added from the group's work in this area. No client name without written consent on file.
Matters are described at the level of transaction type, sector and outcome rather than identifying detail.
Further entries to be populated at launch.
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