Publishing and press law

“It would be normal for the killers to report the crimes. After all, they are the first to know”

Michel Audiard

Our services

Press

We know from litigation experience that this matter leads to an analysis of the expressions broadcast. Our team must assess a situation, by applying the test of the "triple test", released by European law, and seek a balance between freedom of creation and circulation of information, opposed to respect for intellectual property rights and/or or personality rights.

  • Advice to companies, local authorities, personalities implicated on any printed or digital information medium;

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  • Advice to websites, audiovisual, press or publishing companies in the field of information law, and implementation of prevention strategies and possible pre-litigation mediation;

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  • Management of the rights of reply and rectification on all media: in the written press, radio, audiovisual and the Internet;

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  • Assistance in dealing with administrative bodies and control authorities (ARCOM);

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  • General protocols and collective agreements concerning the use of journalistic content (paper, web, bi-media, tri-media, etc. re-use, content aggregator contracts);

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  • Notifications of illegal content;

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  • Pre-litigation and litigation procedures relating to blogs and social networks;

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  • Criminal and civil proceedings in all matters relating to the right to information and on all communication media (offences provided for by the law on the press, defamation and insults, disputes over the protection of privacy, breaches of the presumption of innocence , image rights litigation, summary proceedings, etc.);

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  • Proceedings before European courts: European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union;​​

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  • Procedures for priority questions of constitutionality before the Constitutional Council;

Editing

  • Drafting and negotiation of publishing and audiovisual, theatrical and multimedia adaptation contracts, author-contributor contracts for a collective work, co-publishing, licensing of secondary or derived rights, distribution, dissemination;

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  • Drafting and advice on the adaptation of Anglo-Saxon contracts for the purchase of life paths, targeted advice on writing; disclaimer and verification of compliance;

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  • Writing and advice for publishing in partnership with institutions, patrons, press, museums;

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  • Proofreading and preventive consultation of manuscripts and private or public writings of any kind (institutional, advertising) with regard to press law, personality rights, trademark law and competition law;

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  • All types of litigation (counterfeiting and plagiarism, litigation between publishers and/or authors and other national or international professional partners);

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  • Advice and organization of post-mortem management of literary heritage and the exercise of moral rights and disclosure of unpublished manuscripts;

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  • Constitution of committee, literary association, and follow-up of their activities. ;

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  • Advisor to Start-ups developing collaborative writing tools, and/or royalty management and accountability via Blockchain.
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