Audiovisual (cinema, television, Internet)
The production and dissemination of an audiovisual work often represent a significant volume of work between different protagonists (authors, actors, producers, presenters, distributors, etc.).
MOSAIK accompanies each of its players in the different phases in order to best protect their interests with regard to the specificities related to intellectual property and also with regard to the sector’s specificities.
Accordingly, MOSAIK shall accompany you with the drafting / negotiation of: :
- Assignment of rights agreements
- Assignment of bands / masters / neighborhood rights agreements
- Option agreement
- Sub-edition agreements
- Agent / manager agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Synchronisation agreements
- Co-production / co-development agreements
- Artist-performer agreements / actor agreements
- Director agreements
- Technician agreements
Such as, for example:
- The difference between the different remuneration methods (artists’ fees, fixed, variable, guaranteed minimum / MG, advance, etc.)
- The details of the different rights assigned and the corresponding remuneration
- Society of authors and dramatic composers (SACD)
- Civil society of multimedia authors (SCAM)
- Joint office managing the rights of multimedia authors (SESAM)
- Artists-performers’ Society (SAI)
- National Agency for the Management of Audiovisual Works (ANGOA)
- Society of cinema and television producers (PROCIREP)
- Society for the perception of equitable remuneration (SPRE)
- Copy-France
- Civil society of authors, directors and producers (ARP)
MOSAIK may also assist you in your procedures with the French National Film Center (CNC) for your film support fund files or any publication formalities procedure on the film and audiovisual register (RCA).
Due to its significant experience with the different majors, large content producers or unions representing the interests of certain professions, MOSAIK may also accompany you to prevent any infringement of your different works.
Accordingly, in addition to the ordinary law remedies, MOSAIK may protect you against infringement / piracy by requesting the withdrawal of contents from dissemination platforms, such as YouTube, X (ex-Twitter), Dailymotion, Facebook, etc., through the procedure of notification and withdrawal of unlawful content, which may be referred to as the LCEN notification (Law for the confidence in the digital economy) or « Notice and take down ».
If these withdrawal requests are unsuccessful, the firm may accompany you in order to request the withdrawal of contents before the civil courts on the basis of the LCEN (Law for the confidence in the digital economy), the Intellectual Property Code or the Sport Code, if applicable.
MOSAIK may also request the blockage of access to different websites with regard to different operations on the basis of the same provisions, if the conditions set forth are fulfilled.
MOSAIK may also accompany you in the context of criminal procedures in order to request the assistance of the public authorities (criminal complaint, complaint with joinder of a civil party, writ petitions, etc.) to obtain sanctions against the different offenders.