• Industrial Property Rights, Copyright Law, Advertisting Law
• Media Law
• Information Technology
• Telecommunications Law

We offer counseling services for all legal issues, as well as advice on the wording of contracts for branding, patents, design, know-how and advertising:

• Creation and negotiation of contracts for patent, know-how and trademark licenses, technology transfer, merchandising and sponsoring agreements
• Development of litigation strategies against infringement of international industrial property rights
• Litigation at national and international lawsuits
• Analysis and assessment of patenting and branding portfolios
• Development of branding strategies in close cooperation with our clients and their advertising agencies
• Worldwide trademark registration and defense
• Assessment of risks involved in advertising efforts planned by enterprises and advertising agencies
• Cooperation for projects such as M&As or IPOs in teams of specialists from other fields of law and disciplines, e.g. issues of due diligence or the drawing up of contracts
• Risk assessment for colliding company names at national and international levels, e.g. before launching a start-up company or before going public
• Worldwide registration and defense of domain names, WIPO arbitrations
  

Contact:
Matthias W. Stecher
Munich
Email

We counsel media companies in all fields of law and represent them in court, as well as before regulatory authorities:

Publishing Law: We offer industry-specific legal advice to newspaper, magazine and book publishers for all issues concerning:

• Copyright Law, e.g. Copyright Contract Law for text authors and photographers, syndication
• Advertising Law, e.g. advertising for third parties (liability for third party content) and advertising of one's own business (advertising with media data), price fixing for print products
• Freedom of expression, e.g. defense against claims for injunctive relief, for a response to false statements and for damages
• Law on the titles to works e.g. purchase, sale and licensing of newspaper and magazine titles, registration and maintenance of publisher-specific trademark rights (see also: Intellectual Property)
• Structuring and protection of publishing offers on the internet

 

Media Projects: We advise publishers and broadcasters in relation to transactions in the media sector and particularly on the following issues:

• Structuring and Implementation as stipulated by Corporate Law
• Antitrust Law, especially advice on press merger control and representation before the German Federal Cartel Office and Cartel Courts
• Introduction, transition and transfer of intellectual property, e.g. work titles, archive data, databases
• Structuring and implementation of company ownership transfers

Broadcasting Law: We advise radio and television broadcasting houses on all issues concerning:

• Copyright and Competition Law, as well as the right to freedom of expression (see above: Publishing Law)
• Public Broadcasting Law, e.g. broadcasting license and local media establishment regulation issues (such as adherence to the German Federal State Broadcasting Agreement and the appropriate radio and television guidelines)

Film Production and Exploitation Rights: We advise enterprises engaged in the production and distribution of films on all issues relating to:

• Copyright Agreement Law
• Exploitation Law, e.g. film licenses, including the sale of licenses and the rights of copyright associations

Contact:
Christoph von Hutten
Munich
Email

Holger Weimann
Munich
Email

BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Information Technology team offers you comprehensive advice. This includes information technology, as well as the creation and negotiation of:

• Project and licensing agreement
• Maintenance and administration agreements
• Outsourcing/application service providing agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Source code.

We provide counsel relating to the following areas of eBusiness:

• Business to business (B2B), business to consumer (B2C), e.g. mail orders and e-commerce sales, digital signatures und competition law
• Data protection, liability, e-security
• Banner advertising, sponsoring
• Content licensing
• Cooperations and partnerships
• Other legal issues related to operative business, e.g. GTCs, domain disputes.

We offer counsel and support for the following aspects of Data Privacy Law:

• Structuring agreements on data privacy and confidentiality
• Legal protection of transnational data transfers
• Creation of a first draft for data privacy policies and company agreements
• Communications with regulatory authorities

If desired, we can also perform data privacy audits and train your data protection officer.

Contact:
Sven Schlotzhauer
Munich
Email

BEITEN BURKHARDT's telecommunications lawyers understand their clients’ business and have a fine grasp of the regulatory environment in which it is conducted.  We will advise you no matter whether you are a supplier or user of telecoms services.

Our services include: 

• the negotiation of agreements among network operators and between network operators and service providers
• the support during the allocation and the use of frequencies
• the advice on the distribution of television and radio services with special regard to digital transmission
• the advice on every aspect of market regulation including, e.g., rate regulation and access to networks
• the implementation of the rules on customer protection as well as on privacy and data protection.

We are closely watching the development of the regulatory framework in Europe as well as its implementation and execution on the national level.  In view of an ever-changing regulatory environment we will be able provide you with planning and investment reliability.

Contact:
Dr. Anja Zimmer
Frankfurt
Email

 

 

Last update: 18. April 2008