Media and Entertainment; Broadcasting

Content creation and distribution today span an increasingly wide set of formats and platforms, and these formats rarely operate in isolation from one another. Our Media & Entertainment practice advises clients across OTT platforms, television, film, radio, audio streaming, music, print, events, fashion, art, and emerging AR/VR technologies, and our team includes lawyers with substantial industry backgrounds who have worked closely with production houses, music labels, media companies, and digital platforms. This sectoral insight allows us to provide strategic guidance and practical solutions tailored to the evolving needs of content creators, platforms, and rightsholders across domestic and international markets.

Our advice follows the full chain of content development and exploitation, and these stages are rarely discrete or self-contained. Structuring a production deal and negotiating cast, crew, and director contracts, for instance, is only as sound as the clearances and regulatory approvals the production will later require, and we approach the two in tandem, ensuring the underlying agreements anticipate these requirements rather than treating clearance as an afterthought. The same principle extends to licensing and syndication, and to distribution deals across traditional and digital platforms, where the terms negotiated upstream determine how content can be exploited, and by whom, once it reaches audiences. Talent representation, and endorsement and influencer agreements, are similarly linked to this framework, given that the rights and obligations agreed at the contracting stage directly inform the content clearance work required to mitigate third-party risk further down the line.

This interconnection extends to the digital compliance considerations that now attach to nearly all content distribution. Intermediary liability, content moderation, take-down procedures, and grievance redressal mechanisms under the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021 are similarly linked to the licensing and distribution work that placed the content on a given platform in the first place, rather than standing as standalone regulatory obligations, and we advise on these as a single, connected exercise. It is this capacity to identify and address the interconnections across content development, contracting, clearance, and digital compliance, rather than treating them as separate workstreams, that allows us to combine genuine industry experience with a business-focused approach, ensuring robust protection under IP, media, and licensing laws worldwide.