Seattle Avocats
The sizeable team at Seattle Avocats is well equipped to assist artists and production companies (most notably, The Jokers Lab and Mediapart) with a wide range of issues. The practice is led by François Ronget, an industry specialist who handles litigation as well as advising on IP issues. Other key contacts are Emmanuel Tordjman and Olivia Lévy, an expert in IP law.
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Key clients
- Solloby
- The Jokers Lab
- Berbere tv
- Mediapart tv
- L’humanité
- Doumbe production
- The media company
- Hélène Constanty
- Amadou Mariko
- 6 Doing Jazz
- Coyote
- Station animation
- Damla production
- Un monde meilleur
- Big nose
- Horizon Media
- hiflyrecords
Work highlights
- Acting for Mediapart in a dispute concerning the use of television programme footage in the film Mediacrash, produced by Bangumi and the client.
- Advised Doumbe Production on the negotiation of the transfer of rights from the client and the family of Assa Traoré to Tohu Bohu and HBO France with a view to producing a documentary on the Adama Traoré case.
- Representing The Jokers Lab, the owner of the rights to the award-winning documentary "Bambi", in the pre-litigation stages of a dispute with production company Agat Films, which wishes to produce a fiction series about Bambi.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
François Ronget