Copyright

Originality matters. We help you keep it yours.

Service Overview

In an age where AI can generate content in seconds, originality has never been more valuable or more vulnerable. Copyright law is evolving fast, and so are the risks. Our team helps clients protect original works that capture their ingenuity and creativity, and supports them in safeguarding their rights in those works. 

Our team helps clients protect the full spectrum of creativity from marketing assets and product artwork to software, digital content, educational materials, and artistic works. We secure ownership, obtain registration, and enforce rights efficiently across a region where copyright practices, procedures, and enforcement pathways vary widely. Whether it’s content, design, digital assets, or artistic expression, we ensure your ideas remain unmistakably yours

How We Help

We provide practical, commercially-grounded guidance backed by deep regional insight, ensuring you can protect, deploy, and defend your creative assets with confidence.

  • Copyright registration and documentation
  • Rights clarification and ownership transfer
  • Protection of packaging artwork, branding, marketing content, and digital assets
  • Copyright advisory for software, digital platforms, and e-learning
  • Evaluation of originality, authorship, and infringement risks
  • Opposition proceedings before copyright and IP tribunals
  • Enforcement actions involving imitation, reproduction, and passing off
  • Alignment of copyright strategy with trademark, design, and regulatory considerations
  • Review of licensing, publishing, production, content distribution agreements, collective rights management, and performing rights society matters
  • Working with collective management organisations (CMOs), including performing rights societies

Our Differentiators

Practical, business-aligned advice
We translate complex copyright issues into clear, actionable strategies that protect the creative rights of copyright owners.

Streamlined registration and documentation
We manage filings, ownership transfers, and Ministry interactions across multiple jurisdictions, reducing administrative friction and ensuring enforceability.

Cross-sector expertise
Our team works with clients in retail, FMCG, education, technology, automotive, pharmaceutical, fashion, and entertainment, bringing sector-specific insight to each matter.

Integrated brand protection
We coordinate copyright protection with trademark, design, advertising, and regulatory strategies to provide Holistic solutions to the requirements of modern-day creators and businesses.

Regional reach with consistent quality
With 16 jurisdictions and 20 offices, we handle copyright protection where procedures differ significantly—delivering one standard of practice across all markets.

Representative Matters

  • Acting for a major retail group in securing copyright protection for core artistic and creative assets used in a national loyalty programme, including rights clarification, ownership transfer, and registration before the UAE Ministry of Economy.
  • Acting for a regional digital-education platform in registering original musical works, instructional materials, and proprietary content, ensuring protection across print and digital formats.
  • Representing a global automotive brand in copyright opposition proceedings involving unauthorised reproduction of visual branding elements before the IP Tribunal.
  • Acting for an international automotive supplier in copyright opposition proceedings concerning the misuse of design artwork for automotive parts.
  • Representing a leading food and beverage company in copyright opposition relating to the imitation of packaging artwork and product visuals.
  • Acting for a luxury automotive manufacturer to prevent unauthorised reproduction of artistic and design elements, with proceedings pending before the Tribunal.
  • Handling copyright registrations for multiple FMCG, pharmaceutical, and consumer-goods companies, securing protection for packaging artwork, marketing materials, and digital creative assets.

Service Overview

In an age where AI can generate content in seconds, originality has never been more valuable or more vulnerable. Copyright law is evolving fast, and so are the risks. Our team helps clients protect original works that capture their ingenuity and creativity, and supports them in safeguarding their rights in those works. 

Our team helps clients protect the full spectrum of creativity from marketing assets and product artwork to software, digital content, educational materials, and artistic works. We secure ownership, obtain registration, and enforce rights efficiently across a region where copyright practices, procedures, and enforcement pathways vary widely. Whether it’s content, design, digital assets, or artistic expression, we ensure your ideas remain unmistakably yours

How We Help

We provide practical, commercially-grounded guidance backed by deep regional insight, ensuring you can protect, deploy, and defend your creative assets with confidence.

  • Copyright registration and documentation
  • Rights clarification and ownership transfer
  • Protection of packaging artwork, branding, marketing content, and digital assets
  • Copyright advisory for software, digital platforms, and e-learning
  • Evaluation of originality, authorship, and infringement risks
  • Opposition proceedings before copyright and IP tribunals
  • Enforcement actions involving imitation, reproduction, and passing off
  • Alignment of copyright strategy with trademark, design, and regulatory considerations
  • Review of licensing, publishing, production, content distribution agreements, collective rights management, and performing rights society matters
  • Working with collective management organisations (CMOs), including performing rights societies

Our Differentiators

Practical, business-aligned advice
We translate complex copyright issues into clear, actionable strategies that protect the creative rights of copyright owners.

Streamlined registration and documentation
We manage filings, ownership transfers, and Ministry interactions across multiple jurisdictions, reducing administrative friction and ensuring enforceability.

Cross-sector expertise
Our team works with clients in retail, FMCG, education, technology, automotive, pharmaceutical, fashion, and entertainment, bringing sector-specific insight to each matter.

Integrated brand protection
We coordinate copyright protection with trademark, design, advertising, and regulatory strategies to provide Holistic solutions to the requirements of modern-day creators and businesses.

Regional reach with consistent quality
With 16 jurisdictions and 20 offices, we handle copyright protection where procedures differ significantly—delivering one standard of practice across all markets.

Representative Matters

  • Acting for a major retail group in securing copyright protection for core artistic and creative assets used in a national loyalty programme, including rights clarification, ownership transfer, and registration before the UAE Ministry of Economy.
  • Acting for a regional digital-education platform in registering original musical works, instructional materials, and proprietary content, ensuring protection across print and digital formats.
  • Representing a global automotive brand in copyright opposition proceedings involving unauthorised reproduction of visual branding elements before the IP Tribunal.
  • Acting for an international automotive supplier in copyright opposition proceedings concerning the misuse of design artwork for automotive parts.
  • Representing a leading food and beverage company in copyright opposition relating to the imitation of packaging artwork and product visuals.
  • Acting for a luxury automotive manufacturer to prevent unauthorised reproduction of artistic and design elements, with proceedings pending before the Tribunal.
  • Handling copyright registrations for multiple FMCG, pharmaceutical, and consumer-goods companies, securing protection for packaging artwork, marketing materials, and digital creative assets.