Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property rights are a company’s key assets. Registering, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights on creations is essential. A good creative enterprise is built on a solid foundation of intellectual property rights.
Crosslink Legal advises and litigates for national and international clients in the field of:
- copyright
- portrait right
- neighbouring rights
- collective administration
- music law (songwriters, artists, session musicians, engineers, producers, vocalists, ghost producers, sampling and plagiarism issues etc.).
- art law
- media law (freedom of speech and unlawful press publications)
- intellectual property transactions (transfer, licensing, sale,
Trademark and trademark protection/ Trademark name/ Domain names - design right
- unfair competition and slavish imitation
- misleading and comparative advertising
- Know how/trade secrets
Entertainment Law
Entertainment law pertains
- Music
- TV and Film
- Multimedia and internet content creation
- Book and literary publishing
- Theatre and musicals
- Fine arts, visual arts and design
Contracts
Crosslink legal drafts contracts, negotiates deals, reviews contracts and advises in a broad sense so that you can find the right strategic partners. Crosslink Legal can help you with, for example, the following contracts:
- Licence agreements intellectual property rights
- Deeds of transfer of intellectual property rights
- Engagement agreements
- Music contracts (publishing, artist contracts, label agreements, synch deal, production deal, ghost production deal, vocalist deals, side agreements, featuring agreements, letters of direction, session musicians, film composers, game/advertising audio, songwriting agreements, contracts for engineers and studios, booking contracts, management contracts)
- sponsor/endorsement agreements
- merchandising agreement
- art consignment agreements
- art commission agreements
- partnership agreements
- non-disclosure agreements/NDAs
- General terms and conditions, privacy and cookie policy, EULA
Enforcement of your rights
Sometimes confrontation is inevitable. In case of a conflict, Crosslink Legal handels your dispute through
- drafting cease and desist letters
- conducting settlement negotiations
- drafting settlement agreements
- litigation
- Proceedings at the Plagiarism Commission of Buma/Stemra
