YOON&YANG
Entertainment and sports industries are seeing growth in related markets, adding complexities in their issues. With various business structures and contracts emerging in today’s entertainment and sports industries, related disputes are evolving from mere civil and criminal disputes of the past to more sophisticated challenges that implicate issues like intellectual property rights and M&As.

Key Services

  • Advising on copyright acquisition, management, and protection as well as other IP rights of pop culture artists
  • Advising on protection of the right of portrait, the right of name, and other rights of publicity, as well as the right of privacy of pop culture artists
  • Advising clients on film production, investment, and distribution, and handling related disputes
  • Advising clients on music production and distribution, and handling related disputes
  • Advising clients on invitation of famous foreign pop culture artists for performance, and handling related disputes
  • Handling disputes over advertising agreements and exclusive management agreements of pop culture artists
  • Handling disputes over exclusive management agreements and foreign transfers of professional sports players


 

Representative Cases

  • Damages litigation case on sound source copyright infringement between CJ Entertainment and Soribada
  • Copyright infringement injunction and damages litigation cases filed by Warner Brothers, CJ Entertainment, and other domestic and foreign film producers/distributors against webhard companies
  • Representation of terrestrial TV broadcasting stations in a litigation case seeking for an injunction prohibiting retransmission by system operators
  • Constitutional complaint and adjudication on the constitutionality of Article 29(2) of the Copyright Act
  • KEFICO’s infringement injunction application case against a trademark pirate in China
  • Dispute over an application for an injunction prohibiting the infringement of the right of portrait, right of personality, and right of publicity, and a claim for damages with respect to the use of an entertainer’s name and photographs while selling cosmetics products on TV on a home shopping channel
  • Wide array of legal advice and representation in litigation for famous entertainers