Entertainment & Media

The Practice comprises a specialist team of dedicated and passionate practitioners well versed in the nuances of the entertainment and media industry and ready to embrace new technologies and the challenges these present for the law. With grounded and concise advice, they assist clients in exploiting the value of their assets (intellectual property) and in building relationships between clients and their partners.

Within This Practice

Our efforts as one of the very few law firms in Singapore with an entertainment and media law practice have been recognised within the industry. Our lawyers are leading entertainment and media practitioners in Singapore.

Protecting Creativity

The Practice is committed to securing and protecting clients’ key assets being the creativity within the various ‘players’ in the entertainment and media industry – performers, artists, producers, film directors, actors, and the works they create.

We are able to guide clients in unlocking the value of the product of their creation and in safeguarding it for continued commercial exploitation.

Depth of Experience

In an entertainment world that increasingly values cross-media knowledge, our experience in this industry allows us to provide valuable and prompt advice to our clients. Our clients include motion picture and television producers, television networks, authors, investors, technology companies, game companies, writers, performers, government entities, to name a few.

Breadth of our Practice

We provide advice to clients on a broad spectrum of entertainment and media related matters including rights acquisition, film and television (live action, animated, reality and other genres) financing, production and distribution, merchandising, game development and publishing, multiple platform exploitation including new media commercialisation or Internet based projects, sponsorship and endorsement, data protection, confidentiality and privacy issues, technology related matters.

Our Practice in addition spans litigation based work including acting for clients in media related disputes, prosecuting parties on behalf of rights owners for infringement of the rights owners’ intellectual property works such as unauthorised downloads of copyright materials, unauthorised sale of infringing works.

Some of the services we provide include :

Celebrity endorsement agreements
Sponsorship agreements
Film and Television Series financing, production and distribution
Entertainment related investment agreements
Co-productions
Sales agent agreements
Merchandising agreements
New media (including Internet) and communications
Entertainment collaboration arrangements
Recording agreements
Talent agreements
Copyright and trademark advice including prosecution, exploitation
Intellectual property rights assignment and licensing
Option agreements
Rights clearances and acquisition
Product placements
Virtual worlds
Intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trade mark, design and patent infringement
Anti-piracy enforcement actions

Cross-Pollination

With our broad client base, it is not uncommon for our lawyers to introduce and / or bring clients together to collaborate on entertainment / media projects.

Recognition

Band 1 - TMT

Chambers Asia Pacific (2023)
Tier 1 - TMT

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2023)
"Rajah & Tann Singapore fields a team with seasoned lawyers who are well placed to provide expertise on telecoms and technology regulatory matters as well as licensing, data protection and data centre projects. Acts for an impressive roster of high-end domestic and multinational social media, electronics and telecoms companies."

Chambers Asia Pacific (2022)
The team is "knowledgeable and responsive."

Chambers Asia Pacific (2022)

"Rajah & Tann Singapore fields a team with seasoned lawyers who are well placed to provide expertise on telecoms and technology regulatory matters as well as licensing, data protection and data centre projects. Acts for an impressive roster of high-end domestic and multinational social media, electronics and telecoms companies."

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022