Music & Audio Productions

The music and audio industry stands for creativity, dynamism and innovation – and at the same time for a complex network of participants, rights and contractual structures. Whether it’s publishing rights, music production, music distribution, the use of music in marketing campaigns or the administration of rights by collecting societies such as GEMA and GVL – every phase of music creation and exploitation requires legal precision and strategic expertise.

We support you in the legally compliant design and implementation of music projects, particularly for use in film, advertising, social media and streaming contexts, as well as in the licensing of your music rights. Our advice aims to legally secure creative processes and optimise them economically – from the design of classic and individual contracts to the national and international licensing of music rights and strategic positioning in the market.

We place a particular focus on “Spoken Word-formats” such as audiobooks, radio plays and podcasts. We provide support in the drafting and negotiation of voice-over, production and distribution contracts, clearance of music rights and licensing for national and international platforms.

We advise national and international companies in all forms of music and audio production and worldwide exploitation, in the development of new innovative business models and in the establishment of music companies. We also support you in the purchase and sale of music catalogues or entire music companies. In doing so, we draw on our many years of specialist knowledge and expertise as well as our long-standing contacts in the music industry.  Our goal: to harmonise your creative and economic interests – through clear structures, robust contracts and a legal architecture that supports your music and audio productions in the long term.