Press and publishing
The Taylor Wessing Media & Entertainment department hosts an integrated team of international experts in the field of press and publishing law.
Our German, English and French lawyers include leading experts in the field and have many years' experience between them. Acting as a multinational team, they advise internationally operating publishers and investors as well as medium-sized publishers who largely operate on a national basis.
Our services cover the entire spectrum of issues faced by the publishing and press industry, including:
- Advice on and drafting of contracts with authors, publishers, translators and illustrators and in relation to other licensing and co-operation agreements
- Antitrust law relating to the publishing sector
- Copyright and rights clearance
- Collecting societies
- Defamation
- Distribution law
- Title protection and trademark rights
- Labour law relating to publishing and press staff and freelancers
- Anti-piracy
- Litigation
- Electronic publishing
- Sale and acquisition of publishing houses, catalogues and individual titles
- Reorganisation and restructuring of publishing companies
- Corporate financing
- Taxation of publishers' products and corporate tax law
- Tax optimisation schemes for authors and publishers
- Legislation procedures and lobbying.