Considered.
A Commercial, Arts & Entertainment Law Firm.
Services include general counselling and advice in the areas of your business and talents. Our contacts in the entertainment industry are wide ranging.
We provide professional and efficient advice on a one-to-one basis – both timely and cost-effective. Our approach is honest, clear and straightforward, in plain language.
We see ourselves as an independent sounding board for your business decisions and will always be up front when you seek counsel.
We agree our fees up front, so you know how much our services cost before the work begins.
Services
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Corporate & Commercial
Areas of expertise:
- structuring start-ups
- joint ventures and investor and shareholder agreements
- partnership agreements
- business acquisitions and sales
- due diligence inquiries
- company and incorporated associations constitutions
- director loans
- company secretariat advice
- confidentiality agreements
- intellectual property advice such as copyright and brand protection, trade secrets and confidential information
- website terms of use and privacy policies
- supplier trading terms
- customer contracts
- dispute resolution
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Intellectual Property
Trade Marks and brand protection
We assist with all aspects of clients’ brands from the establishment and protection of trade mark rights, to the enforcement of commercial reputation and goodwill . Sector experience include media, fashion, arts, entertainment, NFP, trade promotions, e-payments and gift cards.
Specialist areas include:
- brand creation and defensive protection advice
- business and band name registration
- trade mark commercialisation and strategy
- trade mark applications and portfolio management
- domain name acquisition and recovery
- anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy work
- infringement and dispute resolution
Copyright
Extensive experience advising on matters:
- ownership and acquisition
- commercial exploitation, including licensing and distribution arrangements
- protection and enforcement
- proactive and reactive anti-piracy measures
- collecting societies
- infringement and dispute resolution
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Entertainment
Talent
We focus on the creative and business needs of clients within the entertainment industries; expertise includes:
- producer and mixer agreements
- endorsement and sponsorship
- management agreements
- touring and events
- collaborations and partnerships
- legal rights and remedies
- home entertainment distribution and licensing for film, TV and online
- merchandising
Music
We advise on all aspects of the music business both in Australia and internationally:
- recording and licensing
- music publishing
- licensing and synchronisation
- merchandising and sponsorship
- live performance – festival, promoter and booking agent
- distribution
- business structures
- venue hire
- management
- merchandising and sponsorship
- promoter and booking agent
- collecting societies (incl. APRA AMCOS / PPCA / SoundExchange)
- touring
- assembling a team
- dispute resolution and rights
- PPCA direct licensing policies
- business terms and conditions and privacy policies
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Film, TV & Theatre
Areas of expertise:
- rights acquisition and development – writers’ agreements, options over literary works, purchase of rights, and ‘first look’
- distribution – sales agency arrangements, distribution and licensing, acquisitions and non-theatrical and ancillary rights
- production – releases, music supervision, music synchronisation licensing, music commissioning and footage clearances
- investors
- funding agencies
- merchandising and sponsorship
- talent
- venue and operations
- rights management
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Digital Media
Experience:
- podcast talent management and licensing
- content licensing and distribution
- e-gift cards and vouchers
- domain names
- content take-down and removal
- trade promotions and competitions
- content licensing and clearances
- web hosting and development agreements
- technology licensing
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Visual Art & Design
Expertise to clients includes:
- commissioning and consultancies
- hire
- artist & gallery
- project management
- merchandisig and sponsorship
- copyright and designs
- moral rights
- exhibition and touring
- business structures
- rights acquisition and licensing
- rights management
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Games
Expertise includes:
- rights acquisition
- licensing and distribution
- music rights and licensing
- sponsorship, endorsement and merchandising
- business structures
- end user licences
- e-sports rights management
- player and talent
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Fashion
We work with fashion designers and fashion houses and advise on:
- brand protection – trade marks, copyright and designs
- retail and commercial leases
- web and social
- manufacture
- distribution and licensing
- dispute resolution
About
Andrew Fuller
LLB (1st Class Hons), BCom, BArts
I began my career as a commercial lawyer at Allens after graduating from university with first class honours. After that, I held senior business and legal affairs positions with rights and entertainment companies. I have been in private practice since 2012.
My areas of expertise include commercial, arts, entertainment, fashion and media law. I advise start-ups and businesses looking to create, protect and commercialise their rights.
I am a previous President of the Board of Music Victoria and now a proud lifetime member. I am a member the Arts Law Centre lawyer advisory panel.
I regularly present seminars on arts and entertainment rights management, and funding, for the creative industries.
I have 10 years total experience on the boards of The Arena Theatre Company (VIC) and the West Australian Music Association (WAM).
I have assessed grant applications for Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts and have experience in government relations. I have consulted to NFPs such as The Seed on a pro bono basis.
Contact
358 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Clearview Legal Counsel Pty Ltd
ABN 46 609 979 053