Media & Entertainment and Culture
Media & Entertainment and Culture
We are known for our excellent legal advice in a wide range of areas of the Creative Economy
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Industry experts
CQS is known for its excellence in legal advice in different areas of Culture, Entertainment, and the Creative Economy, having been the first to specialize in planning and advising on the various incentive laws in effect.
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Activities with Controllerships
CQS also has experience in working with several control bodies, such as the Federal, State, or Municipal Accounting Courts, as well as with the respective Controllerships, defending clients' interests in procedures carried out in these bodies.
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Risk analysis and prevention
The CQS clearance team specializes in legal issues related to freedom of expression, personality rights, and copyrights, and it conducts legal risk analyses on materials related to the development or pre-publication phase (pre-publication reviews), reviewing fact-checking analyses for developing and producing different types of content.
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Business structuring
In the audiovisual sector, CQS activities include legal and strategic advice specialized in structuring and implementing activities in content distribution, exhibition and production, as well as serving different economic agents, such as distributors, exhibitors, programmers, producers, online platforms, and talent.
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Corporate restructuring
The firm has promoted significant corporate restructuring activities in national and multinational groups and content financing operations through foreign and Brazilian co-productions and other financing structures for the production or distribution of content.
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Government Relations
We also assist our clients in strategic actions by monitoring bills and regulatory proposals that may impact their areas of operation by providing technical and legal analysis of the content of the regulatory proposals.
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A reference in industry regulation
Moreover, CQS is a reference in industry regulation, which includes the various mechanisms to encourage culture, as well as administrative procedures with the Brazilian National Film Agency (ANCINE) and other federal, state, and municipal government agencies in the exercise of their duties to regulate, inspect, and promote the audiovisual sector and culture in general.
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Clearance of content
We also act in content clearance procedures for large institutional projects and in legal risk analysis for a range of content, including audiovisual content.
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Clientes
Sponsors, cultural and audiovisual producers, distributors, exhibitors, programmers, television channels, digital platforms, publishers, record labels. Authors, composers, musicians, actors, artists in general, state-owned public entities and non-profit institutions.