Music Industry Lawyer Melbourne

Agreements in entertainment law are critical in ensuring the party’s rights and obligations are clearly defined and reflect each party’s intentions. This area of the law is complex and requires carefully drafted agreements to ensure the relevant commercial agreements are both legal and enforceable.

We also draft and negotiate complementary agreements covering photography, video production, graphic artists, content providers, digital strategists, side-musicians and crews, talent consent forms and Tour contracts.

What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot. Discussing contingencies for possible changes in a band’s structure and clearly setting out every band member’s rights and obligations is the smart way to start out in the music industry. Band agreements can also cover their business structure, how income will be used to cover expenses and help avoid disputes over the ways ‘band money’ is paid to its members.

A management agreement sets out the legal and commercial terms for hiring a manager’s services, including their role, compensation, duration, and rights for their work.

Getting professional advice from the outset helps avoid disagreements and costly disputes.

We assist our music industry clients about establishing optimal business structures, including companies, trusts, joint ventures, and partnerships, ensuring legal compliance and alignment with business goals and risk management.

We assist our music industry clients by negotiating and drafting agreements that outline the terms and obligations of both parties, including the deliverables, and financial and legal aspects of the services to protect our client’s interests.

Copyright advice assists our music industry clients with respect to creating or using original content, ownership of copyright works, licensing works, protecting intellectual property, resolving infringement issues, or ensuring compliance with copyright laws to secure rights and avoid legal disputes.

We advise clients on how to protect and leverage IP assets, including trade marks, designs copyrights, and trade secrets. We provide expert legal advice tailored to the client’s specific IP needs and goals, helping them make informed decisions about protecting, managing, and licensing their IP portfolios.

We draft and review legally binding contractor and services agreements for our music industry clients to help ensure clear terms, protect legal rights, and prevent disputes by setting out the applicable rights, obligations, liabilities and compensation.

We assist clients with preparing legal actions and strategies to protect and enforce their intellectual property rights when they are being infringed or threatened.

We assist clients in entertainment law disputes, such as conflicts over licensing terms, breaches of commercial terms or enforcement of IP rights. Our dispute resolution services may involve negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.