What we do
- We register works with the Intellectual Property Registry and build the evidence of authorship and date.
- We draft and review assignment, licence and commission contracts.
- We act against unauthorised use of a work: formal notice, takedown and a damages claim where it lies.
- We handle demands from collecting societies and check whether what they claim is actually owed.
- We tell you which rights you are signing away before you sign, which is where most of it is lost.
What people usually bring us
- A work of your own turning up online or in a venue without permission.
- A contract signed years ago that gives away more than you thought.
- A demand from a collecting society and no way of telling whether it is due.
- The need to set down in writing who the author is and what each side may do with the work.
Intellectual property protects the way an idea is expressed, not the idea. And when what needs protecting is a name or a logo, that is not copyright but a trade mark — industrial property, and a different office: we will tell you so at the first consultation, even when it does not suit us.