Thinking outside the box so that your projects stay within the framework
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MANIFESTO
We made our debut, while Google was still running in a garage and France won the Football world cup championship title in 1998. We’ve been living the transformations of intellectual property and sport law world for more than twenty years. Together, we are in a position to assist you with the agility, the perspective, the rigor and the tenacity needed to ensure that your projects shape tomorrow’s evolutions.
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In the age of immaterial, mutations are accelerating. These mutations create risks and opportunities. We help you anticipate the former and seize the latter.
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Our books
BOOKS
Le droit de la musique
Sous la direction de Jérôme Huet, en collaboration avec Matthieu Chabaud, Jérôme Huet, Céline Cohen, Stéphanie Maury, Célia Pinès,LGDJ, 2016
Droit d’auteur et dématérialisation
Vincent Varet in Études en l’honneur du Professeur Jérôme Huet, LGDJ 2017
Directives 2019/790 et 2019/789 sur le droit d’auteur dans le marché numérique
Sous la direction de Nicolas Binctin et Xavier Près, Bruylant, à paraître, Année : 2020-2021
Our presentations
PUBLICATIONS
« La protection particulière des propriétés olympiques aux Etats-Unis » in « Les propriétés olympiques » (Actes du colloque éponyme qui s’est tenu le 8 mars 2024 à la Cour de cassation), Lefebvre Dalloz 2024
Rhadamès Killy
« La communication impliquant les participants aux Jeux Olympiques : la règle 40 de la charte olympique », Légipresse, avril 2024
Vincent Varet et Rhadamès Killy
« L’intelligence artificielle et le droit d’auteur », Masterclass pour La Fabrique des Formats, septembre 2024
Xavier Près
Some of our interventions
Artificial Intelligence & Data
Advice to a private operator specialized in artificial intelligence regarding the exploitation and commercialization of a healthcare data warehouse.
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Art & Cultural Heritage
Assistance, advice and recommendations to several cultural public operators: drafting of loan and deposit contracts, insurance of works of art, modalities for enhancing the value of collections, status of works, modalities for operating a photographic fund donations and fundraising.
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Art & Intellectual Property
Structuring the contractual documentation of the subsidiary of a public institution operating in the cultural and music sector (audit of contracts and practices, drafting of numerous standard and individual contracts, including in particular a contract for the commissioning of works of art, a rights assignment contract, a co-production contract, an intellectual property rights assignment clause to be inserted in the framework of public contracts and articulation with the CCAG-PI, delegation of signature, confidentiality agreement, etc.).
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Publishing & Personal data
Assistance to a publisher in the context of a pre-litigation with a service provider regarding a security breach that led to the disclosure to third parties of the publisher's employees' personal data.
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Personal data & IT
Assistance to a publisher of websites and applications in the negotiation of a contract with an "ad-exchange" platform for the sale and purchase of advertising spaces.
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Audiovisual & Intellectual Property
Representation before the Tribunal of Paris of an audiovisual broadcaster in the context of an action for infringement of alleged copyrights on a TV series project.
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Publishing & Unfair competition
Assistance to a publisher in pre-litigation proceedings against a competitor regarding the covers of the collections published by each of them.
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Publishing & Digital
Advice and assistance to a publisher of digital books for the evolution of its activity and its positioning with regard to the law on the price of digital books and the exploitation of audio recordings of readings of published books.
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Personal, non-personal data & IP
Advice to an industrial company on the possibility of offering its clients, connected services using personal and non-personal data generated by the sensors it manufactures, for industrial equipment.
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Music & Copyright
Assistance to a collective management society in a dispute with one of its members regarding the inscription of certain works of the latter in the society's repertoire
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Art, Luxury & Copyright
Drafting of a contract for the commission of work of art to decorate the front of a future palace in Paris.
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Music, Luxury & Copyright
Drafting of a contract for the use of sound in the various areas of a future palace in Paris.
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Audiovisual & Financing
Drafting of various agreements relating to the financial guarantees that can be taken on audiovisual catalogs (in particular, pledge and revenue delegation contracts).
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Trademarks & Local authority
Assistance to a public local authority for the transfer to its benefit of a strategic portfolio of trademarks and domain names, in the context of a transaction related to a property complex owned by the State for 500 years and managed by a private operator.
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Art & Cultural Heritage
Assistance to a public operator in the context of a litigation with the representatives of an artist acting on the basis of the author's moral rights.
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Art & Cultural Heritage
Advice and assistance to a major institution dedicated to the preservation, restoration, distribution and exploitation of cinematographic heritage in connection with an international litigaiton concerning an exhibition.
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Art & Cultural heritage
Assistance to a public operator concerning the status of an important collection of works of art with regard to the conditions for making this collection available to this public institution.
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Commercial & Sudden termination
Advice, recommendations and representation of a private operator in the context of an action before the Commercial Court for sudden termination of established commercial relations.
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Internet & Data
Assistance to a leader of online classified ads in the context of a litigation aiming at stopping the plundering of its data by another operator.
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Internet, Misleading advertising & Unfair competition
Assistance to a private operator specialized in professional training in the context of a pre-litigation with a competitor following the latter's online publication of erroneous reviews, on the basis of misleading advertising and unfair competition.
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Publishing & Intellectual Property
Assistance to a publisher in the context of a pre-litigation relating to the imaginary biography of the hero of a famous film saga, involving trademark law, copyright and unfair competition.
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Data & GDPR
Advice and assistance to a start-up specializing in data analysis and optimization using artificial intelligence tools in its GDPR compliance
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Publishing & Intellectual Property
Representation of a publisher and its manager in the context of several legal actions initiated in the field of infringement, unfair or parasitic competition.
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Internet & Cybersecurity
Advice, recommendations and representation of a private operator operating in the cultural sector, victim of a cyber attack.
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Music & Intellectual Property
Advice, assistance and representation of a major player in several litigations relating to the management of intellectual property rights (collection and distribution of royalties)
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Advertising & IP
Assistance to an operator in the context of a dispute opposing it to a communication agency with respect to an exploitation allegedly carried out without the authorization of the rights holder (negotiation and amicable settlement).
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Luxury & Intellectual Property
Drafting a set of contracts involving trademark and copyright law between a luxury house and various services providers for the operation of a luxury hotel in Paris.
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Tourism
Advice of several travel agencies on the contractual and operational management of travels in the context of the health crisis related to COVID-19.
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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Advice and assistance to a start-up in the structuring of its IT platform based on an AI system designed primarily for traders: drafting of rights assignment contracts for IT services, drafting of software licenses and rights assignment clauses to be inserted in various contracts (service or employment).
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Trademarks
Management of trademark portfolios for several operators, private or public, including local authorities: trademark registrations, prior art searches, oppositions, surveillance, notification, letters of formal notice, coexistence and assignment agreements.
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NFT
NFT: Advice and assistance to a major player in the digital information and entertainment sector for the creation of an NFT collection and a competition
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Tourism
Representation of a travel agency before the Court of appeal of Toulouse in the context of a dispute opposing it to travelers who tried in vain to claim its liability.
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Art & Collectors
Advice, assistance and representation of several collectors or artists in the context of several litigations (seizure, theft and restitution of works of art) or for the structuring of their collection (loan, deposit, storage, partnership, insurance of works).
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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI): Advice and assistance to a telecoms operator in setting up an intelligent voice-controlled application
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Art & Cultural Heritage
Advice, assistance and representation of several public cultural institutions in a number of separate litigations filed before the civil, criminal and administrative courts (forgery, donations, bequests, purchase of works of art).
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Virtual Reality (VR)
Advice and assistance to a private operator on all issues relating to personal data and virtual reality: launch of a virtual reality application offering virtual tours of several cities in Europe in augmented and mixed reality; live broadcasting of the launch of a project, in virtual reality on a Virtual Reality App
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Audiovisual & Intellectual Property
Advice and assistance to several audiovisual producers: co-production contracts, executive production contracts, rights assignment contracts (authors and performers), distribution contracts and mandates
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Data & GDPR
Advice and assistance to the French production subsidiary of a world leader in non-alcoholic beverages in its compliance with the so-called "Informatique et Libertés" law and then with the GDPR, with in particular the implementation, imposed on its holding, of an internal alert system
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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Advice and assistance to an AI and data science specialist providing targeted decision support solutions: drafting of R&D and consortium agreements
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