Media and Entertainment

Typical areas covered

  • Rights agreements - authors, screenwriters, actors, musicians, film production
  • Pre-publication/broadcast review
  • Gaming related matters
  • Regulatory issues

Recent Representative Experience

  • Representing client, the leading Slovak private TV broadcaster, before the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission in various proceedings concerning broadcasting regulation.
  • Representing client, the leading Slovak private TV broadcaster, before the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic in various proceedings concerning broadcasting regulation.
  • Advising the Association of Independent Radio and TV Stations on mandatory quotas for Slovak music on radio airwaves, including submitting a case regarding compliance of the relevant law with the Slovak Constitution and EU legislation to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
  • Advising clients, various local newspaper publishers, on the proposal for a new EU Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market.
  • Representing client, the leading radio station in Slovakia, in various libel disputes and litigation involving judicial review of decisions taken by the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission.
  • Advising various private sector clients and associations through the legislative process in the area of broadcasting regulation.
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