Music in film: Introduction to copyright and ancillary copyright for music content // Workshop guest: Attorney Jan-Uwe Leisse

Music in film: Introduction to copyright and ancillary copyright in music content - This seminar offers a practical introduction to the fundamental rights involved in the use of texts and images, sound and video recordings of performances, with a focus on music. The difference between copyrights to works on the one hand and ancillary copyrights to recordings or recorded performances on the other, as well as the right to one's own image and the basic steps for acquiring rights, including the role of collecting societies such as GEMA and GVL, are also addressed, as are problems and solutions, e.g. in the context of online portals. - Workshop guest: Jan Uwe Leisse (Grethler Rechtsanwälte, Cologne and Berlin) - Born in Bremen. Studied law at the University of Hamburg as well as electric bass and jazz double bass at Berklee College of Music in Boston/USA and at McGill University in Montréal/Canada. After passing his first state examination in law in 1994, he initially worked for several years as a freelance musician in the pop and jazz sector. At the end of the nineties, legal clerkship in Düsseldorf, Cologne and at Mushroom Records in Melbourne/Australia. Admitted to the bar in 2000 and joined Grethler Rechtsanwälte, a law firm specializing in the media and entertainment industry with a focus on music, film, TV, trademark law, advertising and the Internet. He advises and represents well-known international and national creative professionals, artistic personalities and media companies in all aspects of the entertainment and media industry. He is a regular guest lecturer and speaker on artist contract and media law, e.g. in the Master's degree program in Music Production at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and in the Bachelor's degree program in Popular Music at the Lübeck University of Music.