Arts, Media & Entertainment
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When you are in the spotlight, you play by a slightly different set of rules. Whether it is a defamation, copyright or broadcasting rights matter, contract negotiations, artist management issue, media obligations, estate planning, or all of the above, ALTIUS can give you personalised and specialised advice via its dedicated Arts, & Media & Entertainment team or its dedicated sports legal agency, ATFIELD.
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Corporate & Finance
- Business set-up
- Art financing and lending
- M&A and disposals
IP & IT
- Copyright & neighbouring rights including moral rights and resale rights
- Trademarks
- Domain names
- Software & databases
- Technology patents
Privacy & Personality Rights
- GDPR compliance
- Publicity rights including image rights
- Conflict between art and freedom of speech
- Defamation
- Right to reply
Contracts
- Exhibition
- Consignment
- Sale and lending
- Licensing, distribution,franchising
- Artists and management
- Publishing
- Broadcasting
- Employment & volunteers
Media Law
- EU, national and Community law (Flemish, French & German-speaking Communities)
- Pre-publication and pre-broadcasting advice and clearance
- Notification & permit requirements
- Real estate including network infrastructure
Dispute Resolution
- Pre-litigation advice
- Litigation, mediation & arbitration
Tax
- All domains of (cross-border) taxation
- Tax Shelter
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Deepfakes in the music industry: Will the AI Act change the tune?
The emergence of deepfake technology, particularly within the music industry, has sparked significant debate and concern. Deepfakes, which are synthetic media generated using AI to replicate and/or manipulate a known artist’s likeness and/or voice, have the potential to revolutionise the music industry.
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Reform of the artist status: The issues at stake for the Commission du Travail des Arts
This ambitious reform aims to guarantee better access to social protection for cultural players, while responding to their realities and diversity.
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The authors of Ravel’s Boléro: Towards a revival of copyright in the Basque composer’s masterpiece?
A blog about Maurice Ravel on Valentine’s Day? No doubt we’ll be talking about Daphnis et Chloé or Don Quichotte à Dulcinée? Well, no. It’s obviously the Boléro that this post is about. The chef-d’oeuvre of the French composer is at the centre of a high-profile trial, the first hearing of which is scheduled to take place today before the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Nanterre. At issue is the possible reinstatement of this essential score in the private domain.
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