FILM, TV, ADVERTISING AND GAMING

FILM, TV, ADVERTISING AND GAMING

Jiří Štaidl

Jiří Štaidl, team leader at the law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. specialising in film, TV and gaming, is a sought-after expert in the field of audiovisual production. He possesses excellent negotiating skills and extensive experience in major projects within the audiovisual and music sectors, as well as in organising festivals. In his teaching role, he lectures on legal issues in the audiovisual sector to students at the Department of Production at FAMU.

The law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. specialises in providing comprehensive legal services in the field of audiovisual production for film and television productions, advertising agencies and video game developers. It represents dozens of producers, commissioned film and television productions, film festivals (such as KVIFF and the Prague Shorts Film Festival), television broadcasters (e.g. the BBC, CNN, WDR), video game developers (Amanita Design s.r.o.), as well as authors and artists in the field of audiovisual production and collective management organisations in the audiovisual sector (ZAFA, DILIA, INTERGRAM). He is able to draw on his many years of experience to provide strategic advice at all stages of the production and exploitation of audiovisual works, from acquisition and licensing agreements during the development phase, through co-production, creative and production contracts during production, to distribution and marketing partnerships, including relations with film funds and other providers of public and private support. He also has extensive experience in the enforcement of copyright in audiovisual content and strategic litigation against operators of video-sharing platforms (disputes with uloz.to, prehraj.to, Hellshare, Hellspy, etc.), as well as in disputes with intermediaries regarding the blocking of access to illegal online content (Vodafone, Slovak Telekom). In the field of advertising, we provide expert advice on all matters of copyright and media law, including legal reviews of advertisements and other audiovisual content. In the field of criminal law, we provide effective defence in cases involving criminal infringements of copyright or related rights, or represent the interests of aggrieved rights holders in criminal proceedings.

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Film producers: Warner Bros., Barrandov Studio a.s., FILM KOLEKTIV s.r.o., EVOLUTION FILMS, s.r.o., nutprodukce s.r.o., MOVIE s.r.o., NOW Productions s.r.o., 8heads Productions s.r.o., Paprika Studios s.r.o., Wandal Production s.r.o., IN Film Praha spol. s r.o., Film & Roll s.r.o., WOG FILM s.r.o., MAUR film s.r.o., 0.7km films, s.r.o., ZIPO FILM production s.r.o., MAT FILM s.r.o., LUCKY MAN FILMS s.r.o., BUC-FILM s.r.o., KFS production s.r.o., Association of Audiovisual Producers, z.s. (APA)
Film distributors: CinemArt a.s., AQS, a.s.
Television and television production: BBC, CNN, WDR, Jan Kraus’s Show
Film festivals: KVIFF, PragueShorts Film Festival
Audiovisual media services: KVIFF.TV
Film education: FAMU
Advertising and marketing: Kofola ČeskoSlovensko a.s.
Video game developers: Amanita Design s.r.o.
Associations: APA (Association of Audiovisual Producers)

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The law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. represented, for example, the distributor Cinemart, s.r.o. in a dispute with the operator of the website ulož.to over the unauthorised use of the work (film) Šarlatán for a period of three years.

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