Cinema & Audiovisual

Entertainment and culture are essential elements in our lives, since they represent leisure and recreation for children, adolescents, and adults. As such, these industries have evolved through innovation and technological development to become synchronized with what society demands. Cultural content and entertainment industries grow by the day, becoming more sophisticated and even more in demand, which has created notable expansion in the industry in the past few years, and has caused a huge impact on world economies. It has awoken the interest of nations, which have created more regulations, policies, and incentives to better growth and development.

SOLINES & ASOCIADOS, observant of new business models that have arisen in the industry as a main product of the development of technology, provides cutting edge legal services to multinational companies, as well as to small and medium-sized companies and private persons to allow them to face the challenges that the entertainment and cultural industries impose. Our services focus on the following areas:

Cinema

Registration of cinematographic work
Registration of animation characters
Defense of copyright (director, screenwriter, composer), cinematographic producers, and actors
Production and co-production contracts
Assignment and licensing of rights: digital environment
Representation contracts
Image management for actors
Publicity, merchandising, product placement, tele-promotion
Pre-sales and sales to distributors or agents
Financing
Elimination or modification of technological protection measures and information protection for the management of rights
Rights administered by collective management companies (Ecuador and other countries)
Premiere and pre-premiere events for short films and long film

Audiovisual

Registration of audiovisual work
Protection of television formats
Defense of copyrights, rights of audiovisual producers and actors
Program content and publicity
Assignment and licensing of television rights: digital environment
Image copyrighting
Publicity, merchandising, product placement, tele-promotion
Pre-sales and sales to distributors or agents
Contracting of actors and other production personnel
Financing
Elimination or modification of technological protection measures and information protection for the management of rights
Rights administered by collective management companies (Ecuador and other countries)