Services

Publishing

Commercial contracts & syndication

We provide everyday legal and business affairs advice to a large number of major publishers and pride ourselves on adding commercial value as well as legal expertise.

In particular we advise on:

• agreements with writers, photographers and other contributors
• exclusive interview and access agreements with celebrities and other contributors
• magazine and other trademark and brand licensing
• content syndication and other licensing
• contract publishing arrangements
• digital content supply agreements
• covermount licences
• merchandising and other ancillary rights exploitation
• distribution agreements
• agreements with printers
• agreements with advertising agencies
• online bookstore agreements
• website operation agreements
• IT and software licensing and maintenance agreements for content management and other systems
• agreements with performers and others for promotional events and tours

In addition to commercial agreements, we also of course provide specialised advice on copyright questions and for example chain of title issues whenever these arise.

As a firm, we also provide all related corporate advice so that clients are offered all available alternatives for structuring transactions. These may include for example acquiring titles or content through acquisitions of companies or businesses or setting up joint venture vehicles between companies - whatever is the best way to achieve our clients' goals.

Furthermore, because of our wider media expertise, we are also able to advise publishers on using and exploiting audio and audio visual material as these become more and more relevant in the digital world.