Media Law

 

In media law, ROWAN LEGAL provides legal support to the publishers of printed periodicals and the operators of electronic media and to companies dealing with media monitoring and other related areas. The office provides services to persons affected by the unauthorised encroachment on the right to protection of reputation (natural persons) or the name and good reputation (legal persons). An integral part of the services of ROWAN LEGAL in media law is the protection of author’s rights.

ROWAN LEGAL provides clients with consultancy in the areas such as:

• concluding business contracts;
• dealing with relations between authors and publishers or media operators;
• representation in negotiations with the collective administrators of authors’ rights;
• dealing with relations between the media and providers of the related services (monitoring the media and so on);
• regulating employment relations in the media, account being taken of the protection of authors’ rights;
• preventive protection against disputes in protection of natural persons’ reputation and the names and good reputation of legal persons;
• legal support with regulation of advertising, television and radio broadcasting;
• legal support in the provision of services on the Internet, including dealing with the liability of the operators of Internet media for its contents; and
• representation before courts and regulatory bodies.

Media Law – Professionals

• Kristína Ďuračková
• Martin Janoušek
• Barbara Meinl
• Lucia Menkeová
• Tomáš Nielsen
• Simona Stahovcová