Entertainment & Media

When your business is centred on content creation, distribution, IP monetisation, or digital engagement, you need a legal partner who speaks your language and understands the fast-moving entertainment and media landscape. Whether you are financing a slate, negotiating talent deals, launching a new OTT service, scaling a game studio, or protecting your IP across markets, our Entertainment & Media team brings practical, industry-savvy counsel at pace so you can keep shipping content and closing deals with confidence. Beyond dissecting legal complexities, we focus on unlocking the full value of your intangible assets and strengthening partnerships that drive your business’ growth. You set the objectives, and we will provide clear, practical advice tailored to empower you to seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and flourish in this dynamic landscape.

Recognised Leader in Singapore's Entertainment & Media Law

Our team is consistently ranked by leading publications such as the Lexology Index: Telecoms, Media & Entertainment and Chambers Asia-Pacific. We combine top-tier expertise across intellectual property, technology, entertainment & media, and commercial litigation, ensuring your projects advance cohesively and securely.

Protecting Creativity

In a sector where creativity is your most valuable asset, we make it our mission to protect it. We work closely with performers, producers, filmmakers, artists, actors, and other industry players to secure the rights and integrity of their work.

Beyond protection, we help you unlock commercial potential, positioning your creations for long-term success and sustainable capitalisation. With strategic guidance, we safeguard what matters most, and maximise its value for time to come.

Depth of Experience

Our team is one of the few in Singapore with a specialist focus on entertainment and media law. Whether you are a film producer, broadcaster, digital platform, game developer, or creative talent, we understand your world and the legal terrain you navigate.

As cross-media becomes non-negotiable, our depth of experience sets us apart. We deliver timely advice grounded in industry insight, serving clients across the spectrum – from motion picture and television producers, television networks, and streaming platforms to authors, investors, technology firms, game developers, performers, and government entities.

Breadth of Our Practice in the Media & Entertainment Industry - Cross-Media & Digital Ready

In an era of streaming, social platforms, digital rights, and global distribution, you need counsel attuned to both traditional media and emerging digital models. Our practice covers everything from film, television, and talent agreements to new media commercialisation, content licensing, and digital IP enforcement.

Product & Distribution

From development to delivery, we structure co-production and financing agreements, clear chain-of-title, and draft distribution terms (theatrical, broadcast, streaming, and ancillary). We anticipate rights windows, revenue waterfalls, and approval matrices to keep projects on time and on budget. We advise on:

Film and television series financing, production, and distribution
Co-productions
Sales agent agreements
Entertainment collaboration arrangements
Recording agreements

Talent & Influencers

We negotiate artist, showrunner, director, composer, voice-over, and influencer agreements (including exclusivity, moral rights, merchandising, and appearance releases), and set up brand / influencers collaborations that meet advertising standards and platform policies. Our work includes:

Celebrity endorsement agreements
Talent agreements
Product placements

IP Management & Commercialisation

We register, license, and enforce copyrights, trademarks, and related rights, design robust content monetisation frameworks, and tailor licensing strategies for music publishing, catalogue acquisitions, and UGC platforms. We also advise on:

Copyright and trademark advice, including prosecution and exploitation
Intellectual property rights assignment and licensing
Option agreements
Intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, design, and patent infringement
Anti-piracy enforcement actions

Financing & Transactions

We advise on single-picture financing, slate facilities, SPVs, equity investments, M&A for studios and labels, and revenue-sharing arrangements, balancing investor protections with creative flexibility.

Regulatory & Compliance

We help platforms and publishers comply with Singapore’s evolving media rules, including Online Safety directions under Part 10A (IMDA) for Online Communications Services, and implement moderation, takedown, and appeal workflows that meet regulatory expectations.

Data Protection & Privacy

We design PDPA-aligned data governance for subscriber analytics, adtech stacks, recommendation engines and cross-border data flows, and run privacy impact assessments for new features and campaigns.

Disputes & Reputation

We act rapidly on injunctions, takedowns, defamation, piracy and leak responses, and manage crisis communications alongside legal strategies to protect brand equity.

Advertising, Sponsorships & Brand Partnerships

We structure integrated sponsorships (events, esports, and festivals), endorsements deals, and co-marketing arrangements, ensuring compliance with disclosure requirements and platform advertising policies. We advise on commercial entertainment agreements, such as:

Sponsorship agreements
Entertainment-related investment agreements
Sales agent agreements
Merchandising agreements

Gaming, Esports & Interactive

We advise on publisher-developer agreements, live ops, virtual items, tournament rules, player contracts, community standards, and online harm mitigation – bridging gameplay realities with legal guardrails.

Digital Platforms, New Media & AI

We help content businesses deploy and govern artificial intelligence tools (editing, localisation, and discovery) responsibly, addressing training data, licensing, attribution, transparency, and risks. We also advise on:

New media (including Internet) and communications
Virtual worlds

How We Help You

Protect Your Creative & Commercial Rights

We secure and manage intellectual property so your talents, brands, and content are safeguarded for long-term commercial exploitation.

Commercial Agreements that Drive Growth

From celebrity endorsement deals to sponsorship, merchandising, digital distribution, and product placements, we draft and negotiate the terms that matter.

Navigate Digital & New Media Complexity

With digital platforms, OTT, interactive formats, and virtual environments, the rules are ever-changing. We help you litigate, regulate, and innovate.

Data protection, privacy, and cyber risks now touch entertainment and media. Our integrated approach ensures you’re compliant and defensible.

Resolve Disputes & Enforce Rights

Unauthorised use of content, piracy, counterfeits, breaches of talent contracts – when rights are threatened, we act defensively. We bring experience in litigation, licensing disputes, enforcement, and cross-border coordination.

Proven Expertise in the Entertainment & Media Industries

Acted for NetEase Interactive Entertainment in a landmark dispute against Riot Games over claim for copyright infringement and passing off.

Successfully acted for a UK singer-songwriter in a dispute over rightful ownership of IP rights subsisting in all his songs.

Acted for SPH Media Holdings in its acquisition of Tech in Asia.

Working with Us

In our world where platforms, formats, and viewer expectations change overnight, you need trusted legal counsel that keeps pace. At Rajah & Tann Singapore, we combine deep entertainment and media law expertise with a client-centric mindset, commercially oriented advice, and regional reach.

When your next project demands legal clarity and business insight, we’re ready to partner with you. Contact us today to discuss how our Entertainment & Media Practice can help you unlock value, manage risk, and accelerate your growth across Asia.

Recognition

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Chambers Asia Pacific (2025)
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Chambers Asia Pacific (2023)
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2025)
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2023)
Outstanding - Technology & Telecommunications

asialaw (2025)
"The Rajah & Tann team is very experienced and pragmatic. The lawyers have up-to-date knowledge and are able to provide information on current trends."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
"Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP’s commitment to the TMT sector is illustrated in its breadth of engagements across the transactional, commercial and regulatory environments. It has advised a series of major clients on their expansion plans in Southeast Asia along with the launch of new operations and products in the region, including dealing with regulatory priorities."

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2025)
"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)

“The Rajah & Tann team is very experienced and pragmatic. The lawyers have up-to-date knowledge and are able to provide information on current trends."

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025