Media, Entertainment & Sports
GHDP has a broad and long lasting experience in all aspects of entertainment,
radio, television and any other kind of media, both on a national and on a global
basis. The extensive knowledge of this area and deep understanding of any related
issue, allows the Firm to regularly assist clients in any matter related to
entertainment, media and broadcasting.
The Firm applies its wide experience to the protection and economic exploitation
of copyright issues, and to the negotiation and conclusion of agreements with actors,
directors, publishers, producers and distributors on a national and international basis.
In addition, the Firm provides extensive services in many aspects of movie
production finance, representing lenders, producers and distributors, in production
and co-production agreements, sale and lease-back transactions,
and other funding tools. The activity of the GHDP in addition encompasses all
aspects of protection and exploitation of television, musical, publishing and multimedia products.
The Firm has gained a broad experience and know-how in the exploitation
of motion pictures and TV programs, through both traditional markets and
innovative technologies. GHDP regularly represents some of the largest entertainment
business operators in terms of sales, leases, management and exploitation
of rights and licenses as well as writers, producers, directors, actors and
other players in the fields of motion picture, publishing, music,
television and advertising industries.
Assistance is provided also in purchasing, licensing, distributing national
and international films, representing clients from the core of entertainment
industry from the '80's.
Firm's practice extends to the protection of clients' intellectual
property rights on a worldwide basis, through new technologies and new business
procedures, on matters connected to the use of copyright, patents, trade marks
also related to new technologies, such as networks and wireless technologies.
The lawyers of the Firm assist and represent clients in all aspects of
intellectual property issues; business and settlement agreements, litigation,
involving IP rights, and they are also experienced in software related matters
and in the violations of patents and copyrights related to software,
encrypted broadcasting and of brand merchandising of sports and
entertainment industry.
GHDP sports practice provides a full range of services related to the
professional sports&apm; industry. The firm have actively participated in the
moulding of the sports legal system, conciliating the priorities of sports
issues with domestic and European legislation.
The Firm counsels clients on a wide variety of sport related matters,
specializing in the area where sport, media, name and likeness rights,
licensing, and privacy issues converge.
The Firm is particularly experienced in providing advice to media companies
involved in the radio-television rights whose activity interlaces with sport
related matters. In addition, the Firm regularly counsels sport sponsoring
companies and enterprises whose goal is the exploitation of name and likeness.
The Firm is also experienced in all aspects of claims and disputes
related to sports issues, regularly represent sport federations, associations,
clubs, athletes, before of national and international sport courts,
including arbitrate jurisdictions.
GHDP offers unsurpassed national and international expertise in professional
football matters, its organization and the promotion and advertising activity related thereto.