Shows, theaters and events
UGGC Avocats advises its clients on the definition and management of their advertising, marketing and communications operations.
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Recognized expertise for over 20 years
UGGC Avocats’ dedicated team has undeniable expertise and a recognized practice in providing support for over 20 years to producers, creators and other stakeholders in the fields of entertainment, theater and major events in France and abroad, in both private and public venues.
Tips and strategies
The firm provides advice and strategies for :
- Creation, design, financing, structuring, development, pre-production, production, post-production of shows and events
- Exploitation of shows throughout their lifetime, including launch, promotion, adaptation and distribution, dismantling, etc.
- Communication campaigns
- Asset valuation
- Marketing strategy, particularly for derivative products
- Issues relating to music rights, revenue rights and the involvement of collecting societies
- Regulations applicable to theaters
- Exporting shows and events abroad and international transactions
- Executive production and orders to event suppliers (including fashion shows, etc.).
- Negotiation and drafting of complex contracts (production contracts, financing, licenses, etc.), and assistance with the execution of all kinds of agreements.
Drafting and negotiating rights assignment contracts
The firm is also involved in drafting and negotiating contracts for the transfer of rights for all talents, creators and performers (designers, directors, stage directors, choreographers, set designers, photographers, musicians, songwriters, actors, artists, comedians, models, dancers, programmers and creators) and authorizations to use personality and privacy rights, including rights relating to personal data (name, stage name, biographical data, likeness and image, honor, reputation, moral rights):
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Equity investments and financing schemes
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Scope of collective management societies for producers’, authors’ and performers’ rights
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Status of artists and talents
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Subsidies, sponsorship, patronage and taxation
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Contracts with influencers
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“Clearing rights
understood as the process of requesting authorization from rights holders
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Captures
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Pre-litigation and litigation
Numerous customers
Our team of lawyers can help you with :
- Renowned producers and organizers of shows, concerts and ceremonies in France (Stade de France, Opéra de Paris, other venues) and around the world (Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, London, Las Vegas, Macao, Wuhan, Dubai…).
- For all legal aspects related to launching shows around the world, including drafting and negotiating production contracts, creator/designer contracts, legal structuring of shows and tours, music rights management, consequences of affiliation with American or European copyright collective management organizations, drafting and negotiating licensing agreements with local entertainment entrepreneurs, reviewing contracts for temporary occupation of the public domain, etc.
- Well-known luxury brands for all legal issues relating to the organization and promotion of events, fashion shows, concerts, shows in private or public venues, digital and physical communication.
- Art Biennials and Festivals in the national and international development of their projects
- Foundations, in particular for legal support for any event or demonstration with institutional, ecological, artistic, promotional, non-profit, philanthropic, digital exploitation, educational or societal aims, as well as for productions integrating virtual or augmented reality (AR/VR) and/or artificial intelligence techniques.
- Agents and representatives in charge of promoting and distributing shows, particularly in China
- Artistic directors, stage directors, set designers, choreographers, costume designers, songwriters and other creators of shows, magazines and events in the protection, negotiation and defense of their rights.
