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Media & Entertainment Law
Legal protection for creative professionals, production companies, and digital studios and publishers.
Navigating the Business of Creativity
Media and entertainment businesses face unique legal pressures. Whether you’re producing film, distributing music, publishing digital content or software, or negotiating talent agreements, your work sits at the intersection of creativity and commercial risk.
Our job is to help you protect your rights, exploit your work commercially, and avoid disputes, while you focus on the stuff that really matters: creating.
At Blackmont Legal, we work with clients across the media and entertainment landscape – from independent creators and agents to production companies and platforms. Our legal advice is clear, responsive, and aligned with your commercial goals.
Common Challenges for Media & Entertainment Clients
Creative industries present distinct legal risks. Some of the issues we regularly help clients address include:
Intellectual property ownership disputes
creating clarity in the ownership rights and rights of usage / attribution for the works you create, even when they are works for hire.
Intellectual property licensing and agreements
protecting your brand identity, intellectual property and business intangibles are crucially important in the modern era. We take a proactive approach to this, providing support and helping create long-term protections
Unlicensed or unauthorised use of creative works
protecting and enforcing your rights to ensure only you (and those you commercially license) can benefit from the fruits of your hard work.
Commissioning and production agreements
professional agreements designed to put forward to investors and financers, to maximize the success potential of your projects
Defamation, privacy, and reputational risks
safeguarding and managing reputation risk. Your reputation is often as powerful as your brand. We understand this and treat it with the due care it deserves.
Licensing or distribution rights
maximizing the commercial outreach of your projects while ensuring line of obligation and deliverables remain clear.
Brand endorsement and influencer contracts
We have a wide range of experience in working with brands and influencers. Social media can be a fast-moving environment with emerging trends and new creators emerging all the time. Don’t get held back by engaging with the wrong creators or brands at the wrong time.
Regulatory issues with content and advertising
Advice regarding the ever-changing landscape related to regulations and the law concerning content and advertising.
How We Support You
We provide legal advice across the full lifecycle of content creation, production, distribution, and exploitation, including:
Drafting and negotiating production, talent, and contributor agreements
Advising on intellectual property rights, licensing, and copyright protection
Managing disputes - including copyright infringement, contractual breaches, and reputational issues
Providing compliance advice around advertising regulations, ASA / Ofcom rules, and platform specific policies
Supporting brand partnerships, influencer marketing, and rights clearances
Advising creators and companies on commercialising their IP securely
Our focus is always on enabling your commercial strategy while protecting your creative assets.
Examples of How We Add Value
Helping a digital content agency revise its contractor agreements to establish full IP ownership
Advising an independent filmmaker on talent contracts and festival distribution rights
Representing a podcast host in a dispute over revenue share and rights of use
Drafting licensing terms for a music rights holder entering international streaming markets
Negotiating advertising compliance for an influencer-led campaign in a regulated industry
Serious About Your Work. Serious About the Law.
Our focus is always on enabling your commercial strategy while protecting your creative assets.