A Legal Partner for Fair Trade Production
In a complex and international audiovisual landscape, producers face strategic challenges: negotiating co-production contracts, pre-purchase agreements, licensing and distribution contracts, and many others. Your civil and criminal liability is sorely tested by the collective agreements and professional agreements applicable to technicians, authors and performers.
Creating and maintaining a relationship of trust with your authors and performers is essential for attract the best talent to work with you.
Maître Denis GOULETTE,
with a dual expertise, has worked with producers for over fifteen years and headed the Guilde française des scénaristes. His balanced vision offers a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing the film and audiovisual industries.
By choosing to entrust your interests to our firm, you are sharing with us a set of convictions and guiding principles designed to ensure a respectful working environment for all. Far from being a constraint, they encourage a dynamic in which all those involved in audiovisual production can flourish, thus contributing to the success and longevity of your projects.
Services
One-off or ongoing legal assistance
Occasional interventions
Our firm is at your disposal for one-off interventions, tailored to your specific and immediate needs. Whether you need help with a specific contract negotiation, a dispute or a legal consultation, we are here to provide you with the advice you need.
Ongoing Services and Outsourcing
Creation and audit of recurring contracts
As a producer, a variety of contracts structure your projects. We work with you to design and audit these contracts, establishing a fair process to enhance your reputation and attract the best talent.
ContactNegotiating contracts and keeping your interests in balance
Contractual expertise
Negotiating contracts in a complex environment can sometimes be tricky. We support you at these crucial moments, by intervening directly in the negotiation of a variety of contracts, including those involving performers and authors, while respecting our commitment values.
Sailing in an Oligopolistic Sector
In a market where producers abound but broadcasters are rare, the temptation to abuse a dominant position is present. Our role is to act as an independent lawyer to rebalance the balance of power, prevent the risks associated with excessive concentration, and ensure fair negotiation.
Positive long-term impact
Beyond immediate resolutions, our intervention aims to build long-term advantage. By respecting legal obligations and the rights of all stakeholders, we help to strengthen your company's reputation for fairness and compliance.
Creating an Environment of Trust
By earning the trust of talent, customers, partners and investors, our ultimate aim is to create an environment of trust conducive to the lasting success of your productions.
ContactLitigation Management and Prior Mediation
Audiovisual production inevitably gives rise to conflicts, but our firm favours mediation to ensure healthy and lasting relationships. In the event of a dispute, we intervene with an emphasis on fairness, transparency and respect. For disputes with performers or authors, our services cover only cases that comply with our negotiation standards and are drawn up by our firm.
ContactLegal Training Tailored to Your Needs
Our firm can organise legal training courses. In an ever-changing legal landscape, we promote the importance of keeping your teams' knowledge up to date to ensure their operational efficiency.
We are seeing grey areas in copyright practices, generating legal uncertainty. Faced with these challenges, we are planning tailor-made training courses. These sessions will address key issues such as navigating the ever-changing legal landscape, interpreting new legislation and collective agreements, developing balanced negotiation skills and drafting clear and robust contracts.
Tell us about your specific needs; we'll adapt to your requirements.
ContactFees
Lawyers' fees are not regulated. It is therefore up to the lawyer and his client to agree on the amount of the fees, depending on each of the following elements:
- the time spent on the case,
- research work,
- the nature and difficulty of the case,
- the importance of the interests involved,
- the benefits and results obtained for the customer, as well as the service provided,
- the client's financial situation.
In principle, these elements make it possible to define an hourly rate, which serves as the basis for calculating fees according to the time spent on the case. For cases that are not too complex, and for which we can reasonably anticipate how much time will be spent, the fees may be fixed or capped.
In the event of legal disputes, and if the case lends itself to it, we may consider fixing a proportion of the fees according to the outcome, for example on the amount of compensation obtained, or conversely on the difference between the amount of damages initially demanded by your adversary and those obtained thanks to the assistance of our firm.
A fee agreement is proposed before any service is provided. It systematically provides for a deposit to be paid at the time of agreement. It sets out the amount of fees to be paid, excluding VAT and including VAT. Expenses related to the case (transport, photocopies) are recovered in addition to the fees.
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