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Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli
Lawyer
Partner
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CMS Hasche Sigle
Kranhaus 1
Im Zollhafen 18
50678 Cologne, Germany
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Specialises in particular in the area of "new media" (e-business, e-commerce, e-media). Key areas of activity are acquisition and utilisation of rights and licences for use by application of new technologies (e.g. digital TV, Internet broadcasting, video /music on demand, interactive television, virtual PVR, EPG´s) and the distribution of content and products via new technologies. This includes in particular the advice on media regulation related to the exploitation of content via new technologies (especially broadcasting law).
Advising on all issues relating to the implementation and outsourcing of technical infrastrutures (e.g. software and hardware developement and licensing): Technology joint Ventures; IT- and Business Process Outsourcingprojects as well as sourcing and supply agreements.
Advice to international media companies in the area of strategic expansion and company acquisition in the area of "new media" and on the structuring of national and international co-production and format licence agreements.
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Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli is partner at CMS Hasche Sigle and leading the media team in Cologne which has been appointed by JUVE for 2011/2012 and 2006/2007 as “Law firm of the Year” in the field of media & entertainment. The CMS media team is listed in the 1st tier of all German Law Firms ("first places to go for media law" - Juve).
He is recognized in the 2008, 2009 and 2010edition of JUVE the directory of German commercial law firms in the field of entertainment and is recommended in Chambers Global 2008/09 as well as Europe 2008/09 as a leading individual in the field of media.Legal 500 (2010) pointed out that clients are identifying Pietro Graf Fringuelli as ‘one of the best specialists’ in the field of new media.
Quotes - Source Juve: "really good, impressed me very much on the opposing side", competitor, "on digitalization matters he has the best knowledge", clients, "profound expertise in media law", clients)
Studied law at the Universities of Florence and Cologne. Doctorate on copyright law on the topic of "Internet TV – Film Copyright on the Internet". Member (deputy) of the Media Commission of the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM).Associate professor for media law at the Cologne-based international film school.
Numerous lectures on the topics of digital use of content inter alia at the Adolf Grimme Academy, the Bavarian Ministry for new Media, Sponsors Media Summit, the Cologne Conference, theMedia-Office Berlin-Brandenburg, the VFFV, the Management Circle, the Executive Round Table WestLB, the Entertainment Media Verlag and Blickpunkt Film.
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(Selection)
"ARD and ZDF: On the verge of being ousted from advertising?", Medienforum, 5 May 2008
"User generated content, Sponsors" – Commerzbank-Arena, 24 September 2007
"DVD, VOD, PODCAST & CO – Authors' rights", Landeszentrale für politische Bildung NRW, Filmforum Köln, 7 September 2007
"YouTube or Sue Tube – Legal aspects relating to user-generated content, IPTV and virtual PVR", Deutsche TV Plattform, Munich, 4 May 2007
"Virtual PVR – Legal aspects relating to video recorders", TV Outlook 2007, Munich, 1 December 2006
"IPTV – Legal aspects of the dispute DFL – Telekom", Frankfurt – Commerzbank Arena 13 September 2006
"Interactive content and convergence", European Commission, Brussels, 3 July 2006
"New strategies in awarding rights", Public Broadcaster, Munich, 29 April 2006
"PVR Outlook: Virtual PVR and other related legal aspects", Siemens, tbb\*, 2 December 2005
"Merging media in the sports business: InternetTV and MobilTV", sportfive and CMS, 18 November 2005
"Merging Media: Effects of new technologies on licensing practices", MBA, 28 September 2005
"New media = new rights?", IP Congress CMS Hasche Sigle, 21 May 2005
"Copyright issues of TV-Digitalisation", Mediengruppe Berlin, 17 January 2005
"PVR Symposion - Legal aspects", Bayrische Landeszentrale für neue Medien, Siemens, 8 December 2004
"Changes in copyright law – Economic consequences ? The bill on the "second basket" of copyright laws", NRV in cooperation with i.E., 22 October 2004
"DVB-T, InternetTV – new marketing concepts and the legal framework", German Broadcasters, 13 October 2004
"Mobile Entertainment - new methods, new rights?", Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg, 27 August 2004
"Digital Entertainment – Who is allowed to do what? Legal aspects of using content in digital media", Cologne Conference - Medienforum NRW, 21 June 2004
"Mobile Entertainment – legal basis", BMCO (Broadcast Mobile Convergence), 21 April 2004
"Video-on-demand – legal issues in practice", Bayrische Landeszentrale für neue Medien and Media Business Academy (MBA), 4 March 2004
"Mobile entertainment – legal basis/ copyright law", MBA, 15 October 2003;
"Video-on-Demand – legal basis", Bayrische Landeszentrale für neue Medien und MBA, 6 March 2003
"Current copyright situation with respect to DVD", d-motion 2002, 6 December 2002
"Copyright and new media", Telekommunikation, 4 December 2002
"Legal framework conditions for online business", Exponet, 20 November 2002
"New copyright legislation", Management Circle, 15 November 2002
"Pirate copies and Video-on-Demand", MMP, 10 July 2002 Film financing, VFFVmedia, 18 January 2002
"Licenses and copyright issues - TV and publishing industry in the light of digitalisation", Executive Round Table Media, WestLB, 30/31 January 2002
"InternetTV – Licensing law", Adolf-Grimme-Akademie, May 2001
"TV meets Internet – Licensing law", VFFVmedia, December 2000InternetTV—Film copyright on the Internet, Medienbüro Berlin-Brandenburg, August 2000
"Video-on-Demand and copyright", VFFVmedia, March 2000
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- "Virtuelle Videorecorder (PVRs) im rechtlichen Abseits?",(gemeinsam mit Florian Dietrich), Update Technology 2006
- Der Millennium Bug: Die Y2K-Gesetze in den USA, CR 1999, p. 683
- Electronic Commerce - Formerfordernisse beim Vertragsschluss im Internet, CR 2000
- Es gibt keine Internetrechte, NetEntertainment - Blickpunkt Film 2000
- InternetTV - Filmurheberrecht im Internet, Peter Lang-Verlag 2004
- InternetTV - Rechtliche Fragestellung über Fernsehen im Internet, ZIM 2000
- IPTV Schattenspiele - Internet Fernsehen im rechtlichen Graubereich, c`t 2006
- Mediale Zukunft des Sports - Aufspaltung von Rechten, Deutsche Sport Marketing 2006
- Recht und Gesetz im Web, Bundesligamagazin 2006
- Rechtliche Unklarheiten bei Video-on-Demand, Videowoche - Blickpunkt Film 2004
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