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Areas of expertise

In all its areas of expertise, the firm’s work includes drafting and negotiating contracts or settlements, the services of consultancy and drafting legal opinions, assisting and representing clients in pre-litigation and litigation, including in the context of conciliation, arbitration or mediation. It also assists its clients with their lobbying campaigns at national or European level. The firm is also regularly required to participate in audits in the context of equity operations or company takeovers.

To find out more, click on the headings below.

  • Literary and Artistic Property

    Literary and Artistic Property

  • Media and communication

    Media and communication

  • Information technology, digital and Internet

    IT, digital and Internet

  • Concurrence déloyale et parasitisme

    Unfair competition and parasitism

  • Personal data

    Data protection

  • e-Commerce

    e-Commerce

Literary and Artistic Property

The firm advises both suppliers and users of IT products and services on negotiating and entering into IT contracts, as well as taking on IT litigation.

 

 +  Managed services contracts

 

 +  Contracts for transfer, distribution or licensing of software, software packages, databases

 

 +  Contracts for the acquisition and supply of equipment

 

 +  Contracts for installation and maintenance of IT infrastructures

 

 +  Contracts for software package development

 

 +  Integration contracts

 

 +  Contracts for Open Source solutions

 

 +  Drafting of clauses specific to free software

 

 +  Pre-litigation, litigation, arbitration, mediation and IT expertise

 

 +  Audits (due diligence)

 

 +  Legal opinions on specialised and technical subjects in digital law and computer law

 

 +  Support with lobbying campaigns of the firm’s clients (drafting pitches, position papers, amendments, etc.)

 

  

 

 The firm also meets all legal needs related to the Internet and digital technology.

 

 +  General terms and conditions of use, of sale or of services

 

 +  Legal notices

 

 +  Privacy and cookies policies, “CNIL” (French data protection authority) notices

 

 +  Validation of user or client experiences

 

 +  E-reputation (defamation, denigration, identity theft, etc.)

 

 +  Responsibilities of intermediaries (law on confidence in the digital economy known as LCEN and e-commerce directive)

 

 +  Digital marketing (contracts, personal data management, etc.)

 

 +  Pre-litigation, litigation, arbitrage, mediation

 

  

 

 The firm also provides training in these subjects for legal experts, judges, operational teams or university students.

 

 See also the Personal data section.

 



Réalisations

Customer Specifications Sector of activity, subject
Collecting rights society The firm advised the client in its exchanges with the succession of a performer artist and its testamentary executor as well as in the management of the royalties before the distribution of the estate. Music
Bar club The Firm managed the client’s relations with collecting societies for copyright and related right. Music
French Event agency The firm advised the client following claims of a collective management organization for performer's rights based on the communication to the public of music during the organized events. Music
Publisher The firm drafted contracts to transfer to a third publisher the rights and obligations of the client for the publication of a book in foreign language. Edition
Television sport network channel The firm drafted for the client an analysis of the risk incurred in case of synchronisation of musical titles within trailers on the sole basis of contracts entered into with collective management societies without asking for the authorization of the autors of the musical works used and their potential music publishers. Television
French holding company managing major public French media groups which broadcast or publish internationally The firm drafted several contract models for subpublishing agreements in the music sector. Television & radio
Company specialized in the publishing of school text books The firm assisted the client as an arbitrator in a mediation opposing the client to two Egyptian authors. Edition