Europe - Belgium
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Industry focus: Media and entertainment

Liedekerke

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The ‘supportive and responsive’ team at Liedekerke routinely acts in high-profile cases related to IP and data protection. Work concerning licensing, trade secrets, market practices, and privacy and data protection are strengths of the team, which is also skilled at representing clients in high-profile proceedings. Etienne Kairis  leads the practice with longstanding experience spanning distribution law, IP, and IT law. Sarah Van Den Brande is key to the team, with a focus on copyright, trademarks, and design work. Bernard Vanbrabant is noted.

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  • ‘Supportive and responsive.’

Key clients

  • IMPS
  • Agicoa
  • Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia
  • Euronews
  • Sorare
  • Marcel Liebaert
  • Belgian Data Protection Authority
  • Moncler
  • Gamesys

Work highlights

  • Representing the three main Belgian press publishers' alliances in a litigation before the Constitutional Court in relation to the action for annulment brought by two major information society service providers - Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. and Google (Google Ireland Ltd. and Google LLC.) following the entry into force of the legislation implementing the new press publishers' neighbouring right.
  • Assisting the AGICOA group, the International Collective Management Society for Film Producers (Agicoa Genève), and its Belgian affiliate (Agicoa Europe Brussels) with several litigation proceedings against BAVP (Belgian collecting society of producers of audiovisual works), against Telenet, Proximus, Orange, Voo and Brutélé, the main Belgian cable operators, and against Orange.
  • Advising Euronews with its cross-border reorganisation and assisting them with all the employment law related aspects of the reorganisation, such as a review of the employment conditions of the current Belgian employees, developing a strategy to harmonize the current and future employment conditions of all Belgian employees, providing an overview of the specific rules applicable to the media industry, assist with the transfer of French employees to Belgium, dismissal cases, etc.

Lawyers

Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Etienne Kairis

Other key lawyers

Sarah Van Den Brande, Bernard Vanbrabant