Our Practice Areas

SIDE Law Office is composed of legal experts dedicated to the satisfaction of your goals in the following practice areas:

– Protection feasibility study/ Innovative work analysis and qualification (NFT, Metaverse, Crypto…)/Originality qualification/ Copyright registration

– All contracts (First option, right transfers, work for hire, licensing, publishing, engagement, acting, recording, production, sales…)

– All matters with unions, author’s rights management organizations and societies and funders

– Negotiation of rights and royalties

– Authors and artists’ estate planning and trusts

– Recovery of royalties and indemnifications

– All legal proceedings and dispute settlement (copyright infringement, commercial tort, unfair competition …)

Our clients are authors, creators, writers, photographers, designers, composers, filmmakers, directors, publishers, producers, photo agencies, modeling agencies, marketing agencies, scientific authors, researchers, engineers, performers, actors, comedians, talents, influencers, future-makers.

– Impact and risk assessment & solution design

– Regulatory compliance and updates (GDPR, Cookies, Digital DSA-DMA, Research and Medical, Digital Health, E-commerce…)

– All contracts (co-processing, sub-processing, transfers, BCR, partnerships, development …)

– All legal proceedings and dispute settlement (data breach, regulatory investigations, audits…)

Our clients are companies and entrepreneurs in software, digital platforms and tools, pharmaceuticals, veterinary and medical projects, scientific research, home goods, cosmetics, clothing, online sales …

— E-commerce & Digital marketing (User agreement, terms and conditions, sales policies, privacy policies, cookies, Ad, Ad-Tech, digital campaigns, affiliate marketing…)

— Audit and assessment of innovation projects (Digital Health, NFT, Crypto, Metaverse, AI, …)

— Fundraising preparation and layouts

— Project set up and implementation strategies

— All contracts (research, collaboration, partnership, sponsoring, financing, promotion, transfers, licensing, NDA, LOI, TS KDT, advertising, affiliate marketing…)

— All legal and regulatory proceedings and dispute settlement (DGCCRF, CNIL, collaboration termination, anticipated terminations, force majeure…)

Our clients are start-ups, companies and entrepreneurs in digital and technologies innovations in the fields of science, digital health, robotics, online sales, fashion, cosmetics, real estate, music, arts, photography…

— Protection and value creation strategies for all IP assets

— Background checks and protection feasibility studies/ risk assessment and solution building

— All protection offices registrations and filings in France, EU, USA and any international or national protection office and all subsequent fillings (SOU, renewals, transfers…)

— IP assets’ portfolio management and Monitoring

— All contracts (licences, transfers, coexistence…)

— All legal proceedings and dispute settlement in the matters

Our clients are individuals and companies in the fields of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, digital health, tech and innovation, fashion, foods, music, arts…

— Privacy and Image protection and management strategies and value creation

— E-Reputation, commercial image, SEO, notoriety, sports and entertainment celebrities  image, marketing image

— All contracts (image management, assignment of image and privacy rights, sponsorship, affiliate marketing, influencers…)

— Royalties recovery

— All legal proceedings and dispute settlement (Privacy infringement, image rights, name protection…)

Our clients are agents, managers, media professionals, artists, entertainment and sports celebrities.

— Libel, slander, denigration, privacy, image

— Unlawful contents, adversarial narrative, hate speech, moderation

— Web operators’ liabilities

— Advertising, Tech-Ad, sponsoring, marketing…

—Contributions to the fight against disinformation and propaganda

— All legal proceedings and dispute settlement in these matters

Our clients are magazines, advertisers, journalists, information platforms, publishers, marketing agencies, social network users, youtubers, bloggers, influencers…

— Art project assessment and development strategies

— Funding strategies and fundraising assistance

— Projects and creation protections and registrations

— All contracts and negotiations (authors, scriptwriters, filmmaking, soundtracks, performers, models, designs, production, publishing, distribution, broadcasting, sales, advertising, sponsoring, branding…)

– All matters with unions, author’s rights management organizations and societies and funders

– Authors and artists’ estate planning and trusts

– All legal proceedings and dispute settlement (copyright infringement, commercial tort, unfair competition …)

Our clients are authors, filmakers, producers, publishers, talents and perfomers in the fields of book publishing, scientific research, music, arts, gaming, software, technologies, home goods, fashion design, clothing…

— Art project assessment and development strategies

— All contracts (exhibitions, sponsoring, sales, licensing…)

— Liabilities (sales companies, experts, appraisers, auction houses…)

— “Droit de suite”

— All legal proceedings and dispute settlement (authenticity, price, seizures…)

Our clients are mostly sculptors, painters, galleries, art collectors, and auction houses.

— Fundraising project assessment and Action plan

— Investors and target identification and assessment

— Pitch preparation

— Data rooms et Due Diligences set up and coordination

— All contracts (NDA, LOI, TS, KDT, partnership, shareholder agreements…)

— All legal proceedings and dispute settlement in these matters

Our clients are start-ups and companies in Digital, AI, Technologies, Innovations in relation to science, digital health, robotics, musique, arts…