Multimedia and New Technology

Frankel Lawyers have a significant practice advising many clients in the fields of multi-media, new technology including Internet and mobile phone content creation and software development.

We have been retained to provide specialist advice on almost every aspect of today's information technology industries: from development through to production and distribution.

For web designers and software developers in particular, the firm's widely recognised expertise in the film, television and music industries offers a substantial advantage when meeting the surging demand for digital and digitised content.

For multi-media and new technology industries we offer a range of expertise and services established during many years' intellectual property practice, such as:

• rights acquisition
• rights clearance
• complex negotiations with computer software developers and computer hardware suppliers
• Merchandising and ancillary rights protection and exploitation
• Licensing
• Distribution and sales
• Open Standards development and licensing
• Creative Commons and Free For Education licensing
• R & D Investor financing and Tax Incentives

Indicative of the leading position our law practice takes in the industry, we are at the forefront of the development of new media in Australia through the provision of contractual advice to:

• Film Australia
• the Law Foundation of New South Wales
• other new media and technology developers.

Ms. Lea-Shannon is a member of AIMIA, the NSW Society for Computers and the Law, the Sydney Linux User's Group and Linux Org. Ms. Lea-Shannon is also a subscriber to the OSWALD Open Source Law Weekly Digest

Ms. Lea-Shannon has spoken on-invitation to AIMIA on aspects of regulation and multimedia