EXPERTISE

At the different stages of authors rights existence, ATURQUOISE law firm provides its clients notably with the following services:

  • Advice and strategy
  • Negotiations
  • Agreements drafting
  • Management
  • Valuation
  • Clearing of rights
  • Pre-litigation
  • Litigation

Wealthy of its important field experience, Anne-Marie Pecoraro and her team bring an important expertise to their clients coming from the musical industry, with advice, negotiation, agreements drafting, pre-litigation and litigation in the following areas:

  • Production
  • Assignments of rights
  • 360 agreements
  • Licenses
  • Options
  • Financial participation
  • Artists status
  • Image rights
  • Clearing of rights
  • Communication, marketing and financial assets strategies
  • Management of catalogues of music rights
  • Collective management organizations

ATurquoise team enjoys an audiovisual and cinema expertise allowing the team to assist effectively its clients by providing advice, negotiations, agreements drafting, assist on pre-litigation and litigation matters in the following areas:

  • Production
  • Making of
  • Assignment of rights
  • Licenses
  • Options
  • Subventions
  • Financial contribution and funding legal schemes
  • Artists status
  • Image rights
  • Clearing of rights
  • Communication, marketing and financial assets strategies
  • Management of catalogues of music rights
  • Insolvency proceedings

ATURQUOISE benefits from an undeniable live shows expertise in France and across the world. ATURQUOISE team assists its clients at all stages of their live shows projects by providing advice, negotiations, agreements drafting, assistance on pre-litigation and litigation matters, notably in the following areas:

  • Production
  • Making of
  • Assignment of rights
  • Licenses
  • Options
  • Financial contribution and funding legal schemes
  • Artists status
  • Image rights
  • Clearing of rights
  • Communication, marketing and financial assets strategies
  • Legal assistance at all stages of development
  • Shows launching
  • Concert halls
  • Revenue rights
  • Export of shows abroad
  • Merchandising strategies

ATurquoise has a practical knowledge of the art market and regularly represents art galleries, artists, collectors and institutional clients such as museums, associations, foundations or investors. ATurquoise team provides notably the following services:

  • Commission contracts, rights assignments, filings, artistic coproduction
  • Breach of contract, litigation
  • Copyright infringement
  • The defense of rights (notably moral rights)
  • Negotiations regarding rights assignments
  • Successions and resale rights

The trademark agency of ATURQUOISE law firm provides its clients with a reactive quality service which secures the protection and the sustainability of its clients’ trademarks. Such services notably include advice, agreements drafting, assistance on different matters such as negotiation, pre-litigation and litigation

In the following areas:

  • Availability and legal validity study of a trademark project
  • Clearance search
  • Filing formalities
  • Implementation of strategic protections
  • Trademark portfolio management
  • Registration and renewal processes follow up in France as well as abroad
  • Development of international strategies with regards to the protection and defense of intellectual property rights
  • Assignments, licenses, franchises, business agreements
  • Audit
  • Collecting evidence, seizure for counterfeiting, bailiff reports, investigations
  • Actions for infringements
  • Invalidity actions
  • Opposition procedures
  • Actions for unfair and parasitic competition
  • Alternative dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation
  • Registered designation of origin
  • Anti-piracy programs, see : www.incopro.co.uk

The ATURQUOISE team accompanies its clients (authors, editors, producers) notably by negotiating and writing publishing contracts, audiovisual adaptation, translation and illustration.

The law firm also gives advices to authors, coauthors, editors affected by litigation with regards to lack of use, moral rights infringements, integrity of the work, plagiarism, counterfeit, reporting.

The trademark agency of ATURQUOISE law firm provides its clients with a reactive quality service which secures the protection and the sustainability of its clients’ designs. Such services notably include advices, agreements drafting, negotiations, writing of contracts, assistance on different matters such as negotiation, pre-litigation and litigation

In the following areas:

  • Availability and legal validity study of a trademark project
  • Clearance search
  • Filing formalities
  • Implementation of strategic protections
  • Designs portfolio management
  • Registration and renewal processes follow up in France as well as abroad
  • Development of international strategies with regards to the protection and defense of intellectual property rights
  • Assignments, licenses, business contracts
  • Audit
  • Collecting evidence, seizure for counterfeiting, bailiff reports, investigations
  • Actions for infringements
  • Invalidity actions
  • Opposition procedures
  • Actions for unfair and parasitic competitions
  • Alternative dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation
  • Anti-piracy programs, see : www.incopro.co.uk

The trademark agency of ATURQUOISE law firm provides its clients with a quality service that is reactive and that insured the protection and the sustainability of its clients’ trademarks by providing advices, negotiations, writing of contracts, assisting on pre-litigation and litigation matters.

It operates notably in the following areas:

  • Study on a sign availability and legal validity of a sign in general
  • Clearance search
  • Trademark clearing house
  • Filing formalities
  • Implementation of a strategic protection
  • Domain names portfolio management
  • Domain names purchase and renewal
  • Development of international strategies with regards to the protection and defense of intellectual property rights.
  • Assignments, licenses, business contracts.
  • Audits
  • Cybersquatting
  • Collecting evidence, seizure for counterfeiting, bailiff reports, investigations
  • Legal proceedings, extra legal proceedings (UDRP, URS)
  • Actions for unfair and parasitic competitions
  • Alternative dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation

ATurquoise law firm assists and advises economic actors by providing them an adapted legal framework. Thanks to their network and extensive skills in labor law, social law, business law, competition law, bankruptcy law, criminal law and tax law Anne-Marie Pecoraro and her team are able to offer full services to their clients.

Thanks to its close relations with its clients and its good knowledge of the communication environment, ATURQUOISE team is able to react quickly and effectively when facing communication crisis where sensitive and proportionate advice are needed. Depending the situation and the client’s nature, it is essential to adopt an adequate approach in order to avoid “bad buzz”.

Moreover, the law firm assists agencies and personalities on different matters involving image rights (agency mandate, image rights assignments, voices and dubbing, models agreements, advertising orders, advertising control, online advertising space purchase, endorsement, ambassador agreements, muse agreements)

Turquoise e-reputation services take over communication crisis and manage the deployment of communication strategies based on the enhancement of trademarks image.

As part of their e-reputation activities, Anne-Marie Pecoraro and her team assist their client on matters such as establishing action plans for the protection of their e-reputation, notably via social networks, monitoring agreements, right to oblivion, and the dissemination of positive contents aiming to replace the negative ones.
With regards to the press, ATurquoise team represents and defends its clients for any action related to defamation, insults, right of reply, right to oblivion, on any support (internet, written press, TV, tracts, e-mails).

Moreover, the law firm assists agencies and personalities on different matters concerning involving image rights (agency mandate, image rights assignments, voices and dubbing, models agreements, advertising orders, advertising control, online advertising space purchase, endorsement, ambassador agreements, muse agreements)

Turquoise law firm provides its clients with a recognized expertise regarding to information technologies.

It operates notably in the following areas:

  • Telecommunications
  • Websites creations
  • Web hosting
  • White trademarks
  • Software development
  • Managed services
  • Domain names
  • E-commerce
  • Digital marketing
  • Online games and bets
  • Social networks
  • Processing of personal data
  • Management of data bases
  • CNIL proceedings
  • Computing charters
  • Litigation

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