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Clearing Rights for Film and TV

Part of the Essential Legal Framework | 8-10 October 2026 | Berlin

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About the workshop:

Scripts inspired by real-life events, a Warhol poster in the background, or a protagonist humming a Robbie Williams song – not all rights involved in a script or film are immediately obvious. A thorough analysis is essential to avoid costly and time-consuming legal pitfalls. Understanding these legal complexities has become crucial for the sustainable development of many audiovisual companies.

The workshop offers a comprehensive overview of rights’ clearance strategies and the necessary legal knowledge to tackle these issues head-on. Led by top industry experts and supported by up-to-date case studies, the workshop offers a deep dive into the subject in a surprisingly entertaining way.

Participants will also benefit from excellent networking opportunities, fostering connections with other professionals in the European audiovisual industry.


Format

  • Interactive On-Site Workshop
  • Berlin

Location

The workshop will take place at the conference room of the NH Berlin Alexanderplatz

Price Tuition

690 EUR (incl. meals, excl. accommodation)

590 EUR with Early Bird discount until 8th of August 2026.

Hotel Accomodation

We offer 4 nights of hotel accomodation at the NH Berlin Alexanderplatz incl. breakfast for 512 EUR.

Dates & Timing

We kick off with a Welcome dinner for all experts & participants on Wednesday evening, October 7 at around 19:00 CEST.

The seminar programme starts each day at 9:00 and lasts approximately until 17:00 CEST.

There will be joint dinners at nearby restaurants every evening at around 19:00 CEST. These are included in the workshop fee.

Scholarships

Will be available (see below)

  • Rights clearance strategies
  • Copyright and its exemptions (Fair Use, parody etc.)
  • Clearing personality rights
  • Clearing music rights
  • Clearing rights at US majors and the streamers
  • Clearing trademarks, artwork and landmarks
  • Global perspective: Cases in different national jurisdictions
  • Clearing rights for documentaries and factual entertainment
  • Balancing legal and creative considerations
  • Practical knowledge for fast and effective rights clearance
  • Hands-on learning through real-world case studies
  • Deep insights into best practices and strategies
  • Expertise from internationally acclaimed trainers
  • Interactive sessions with time for questions and discussion
  • Opportunities to test and apply your new skills
  • A dynamic, interdisciplinary group of participants and industry experts
  • Excellent networking opportunities to build lasting business relationships with audiovisual professionals across Europe

29 September, 2026

English

Yes

Meals 

Lunches and dinners are included in the participation fee. To keep things simple and environmentally friendly, meals will primarily feature vegetarian options.

Accessibility

If your mobility is impaired, please get in touch with the EPI team, so we can find the best solution possible to ensure your full participation.


Info session

The workshop sounds interesting but you are not sure if it will cover the specific topics you are interested in? 

Info Session

9 September

at 17:00 CEST

Our Head of Study Katharina Domnick as well as the EPI team will be there to answer your every question.

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Head of Study

 


    Katharina Domnick

Katharina Domnick is a partner at the Berlin office of Brehm & v. Moers. She advises national and international companies from the media sector on all aspects of entertainment and media law. Her work focuses on advising national and international film projects (cinema, TV, streaming / VoD) in all matters relating to rights clearance, development, structuring, financing, production and exploitation.

Katharina Domnick also has special expertise in litigation (including preliminary injunction proceedings) and assisting in legal disputes in the media industry, particularly in connection with German copyright contract law, questions relating to collecting societies as well as the enforcing and defence of claims arising out of license agreements and other media related contracts.

Among her clients are German and international production and distribution companies, film studios / majors, broadcasters, film foundations, rights owners/ licensees as well as creative individuals and other companies / members of the audiovisual media. Katharina Domnick studied law in Berlin and New York City.

During her legal traineeship (Referendariat) she worked in an international law firm in Sydney, Australia.

She was admitted to the bar in 2008 and worked as an attorney in a major commercial law firm for about ten years before joining BREHM & v. MOERS

Experts in 2025 were


Sandhiya Sophie Argent

Sophie is a highly regarded media content lawyer, who has worked in a variety of media organisations for 15
years. Her experience includes working for the media regulator, Ofcom, and as a programme lawyer in the
award-winning Channel 4 Legal and Compliance team. She was also a senior lawyer at ITN, taking the lead
for Channel 4 News, which she continues to do as a consultant. To date, Sophie has advised on a number of
acclaimed series, across all genres. Her advice ranges from; viewings for legal and Ofcom compliance issues,
script reviews and clearance advice, drafting in-depth protocols covering Ofcom compliance, legal and
ethical issues such as duty of care and welfare considerations, hostile environment filming protocols and
legal opinions for E&O Insurance. Sophie advises at all stages of production, including development where
she is often an effective sounding board for developing ideas pre-commission. She was awarded an LLM in
Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at SOAS and enjoys applying her developing knowledge in this field to

programmes covering human rights abuses and international affairs more broadly.

Wolfgang Brehm

Wolfgang Brehm, Attorney at Law, Studies of Law and Philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Munich
and Frankfurt/Main, admitted to the bar in Berlin. He is a co-founder of the firm Brehm & v. Moers, one of
the leading German entertainment law firms with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.
Wolfgang Brehm advises a wide range of German and international clients particularly in the field of
Film(co-)production, Distribution and Finance. Wolfgang Brehm is a frequent speaker on conferences and
seminars. He is author of the “HANDBOOK - FILMLAW”, published in 2008 (2nd edition) and he has
contributed to various other publications on film and copyright law. Since 1993 he is an expert to various
European Training Programmes, including without limitation, the Media Business School, the Erich Pommer
Institute and he is a lecturer at the Film Academy Ludwigsburg. Throughout the years Wolfgang Brehm was
involved in numerous international Coproductions, including without limitation, “Underground” and “Black
cat – white cat “ by Emir Kusturica, “Dead Man” by Jim Jarmusch, “Enemy at the Gates” by Jean–Jacques
Annaud, “Mostly Martha” by Sandra Nettelbeck, “The Quiet American” by Phillip Noyce, “The Aviator” by
Martin Scorsese, “Lemon Tree” and “Dancing Arabs” by Eran Riklis, “Hannah Arendt” by Margarete von
Trotta, “Voyage of Time” by Terrence Malick, “Richard The Stork” by Reza Memari and recently in various

series such as “You are wanted” (Amazon) and “Counterpart” (Netflix). 

 Henning Brehm

With over a decade of business development experience in the entertainment industry (among others at CD PROJEKT RED, Displate.com, 11 bit studios), across computer games, licensing, merchandise and film/tv adaptations, I focus on building lasting and coherent cross-media IPs, while making sure they remain fun in every medium they expand to.

Yvette Encarnación

Yvette Encarnación is an attorney and senior executive with over 20 years of experience practicing in the
media and entertainment industries. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President & Deputy General
Counsel in the Business & Legal Affairs department at Paramount Global, where she advised brands
including MTV, Showtime, BET, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Smithsonian Channel, as well as the
Paramount+ streaming service. At Paramount, Yvette built and led a team of 8 attorneys focused on vetting
editorial and marketing content and advising on legal and regulatory risk and litigation avoidance. She also
simultaneously managed a team of 20 clearance, licensing, and operations professionals focused primarily on
production clearances. Yvette specializes in all facets of intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and
media law, including copyright, trademarks, First Amendment, misappropriation, defamation, right of privacy,
right of publicity, newsgathering torts, wiretapping, and advertising law. She also advises on emerging areas,
including artificial intelligence, and has managed a wide array of production-related litigations, claims, and
other disputes. Prior to Paramount, Yvette represented other prominent media entities including The New
York Times Company and NBCUniversal. Yvette’s deep industry knowledge and practical business approach
have made her a valued strategic partner for editorial and marketing executives, producers, and journalists
alike. She excels at navigating complex legal clearances and mitigating litigation exposure while keeping
projects on schedule and on budget, ultimately empowering her clients to bring their boldest creative visions
to life. Yvette is a proud graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she

graduated magna cum laude, and Brooklyn Law School.


Kai-Florian Furch

Kai Florian Furch is a partner in the Media Law firm Brehm & v. Moers in the Berlin office. He advises
national and international clients, in particular on copyright and media law. The substantial focus of his work
is on providing contractual advice to clients from the media industry (especially film & TV, games, music and
advertising) with regard to their productions and events. In addition, he has extensive experience in
representing clients in pre-judicial and judicial proceedings. Kai Florian Furch is lecturing law at the Music
Business Summer Schools of the HMS and Interessengemeinschaft für Hamburger Musikwirtschaft (IHM) as
well as at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. As part of his career he gained further
international experience in law firms in Sydney and Los Angeles. From 2006 to 2011 he already worked for
Brehm & v. Moers and from 2011 to 2017 he was Managing Partner in a Berlin based Media Law firm. In
addition, Kai Florian Furch was an inhouse lawyer at a German collecting society from 2011 to 2012 and
CEO of a music label between 2010 and 2015. Prior to and during to his law studies he worked as (assistant)
location manager for German film and TV productions.

Anders Kjærhauge

Anders was originally trained as a police officer and worked in the Copenhagen police force for 14 years
(1985–1999), handling both administrative and investigative duties as well as street patrols. In 1992, he
began studying at the University of Copenhagen, attending Copenhagen Law School alongside his police
work, and graduated in 1999. By coincidence, he joined Zentropa, where he helped streamline the in-house
legal department to support the growth of the “Zentropa Group.” In 2003, he was appointed Head of Legal
Department, in 2007 Head of Administration, and in 2016 became the Managing Director (CEO) of the
group. He has served as in-house legal advisor for all films produced by Zentropa since 1999, including
works by renowned Danish directors such as Susanne Bier, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Lone
Scherfig, and other talented filmmakers.

Monika Preischl

Monika Preischl is working as an archive producer and researcher for documentary and fictional film
productions worldwide. She is a freelance lecturer for research and gives seminars and workshops on
working with archive material. In 2019, she won the Focal Award for her work in "Kulenkampff's Shoes" by
Regina Schilling and in 2023 for "Gladbeck" by Volker Heise. In 2021, in collaboration with Nadja Tennstedt,
she initiated an ARCHIVE DAY for the first time during the European Film Market and a DOK ARCHIVE
MARKET in 2022 during DOK Leipzig. Since 2022 she is a member and former chairwoman of the
professional association "GRAP", which represents the interests of Archive Researchers* and Archive
Producers* towards broadcasters and producers and promotes the visibility of the profession in public.

 Balázs Zachar

Balázs Zachar graduated in history and communications and got law degree in 1999. From 2002 he worked
for the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, where he coordinated the preparation of the Motion Picture Act. As
legal counsel his field of expertise is copyright and media law. From 2011 he was the head of legal affairs
and EU relations at the Hungarian Film Fund where he got hands-on experience in public funding and the
legal aspects of film productions. From 2018 he worked with Proton Cinema, where he produced several
short and feature films. In 2021 his first feature as producer, Wild Roots, directed by Hajni Kis debuted in
Karlovy Vary IFF. His second feature Árni (by Dorka Vermes) premiered in the Biennale College program of
the Venice IFF in 2023. He is a graduate of EAVE Producers’ Workshop, and the European Film Business
and Law MBA program of Erich Pommer Institute. Besides developing and producing films he is specialized
in film rights clearance, and regularly works as clearance supervisor for international productions. (“The
Billion Dollar Code” for Netflix, “The Informant” and “Spy/Master” for HBO, and “The Kollective” for A+E.)

Scholarships 

and 

discounts


Thanks to Creative Europe - MEDIA funding, a limited number of partial scholarships are available for nationals of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

For the application use the link below.

Important: Do not register for the workshop while applying for a scholarship.

Scholarship Application

Thanks to the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, a limited number of local scholarships are available for media professionals based in the regions of Berlin, Brandenburg, Thüringen, Sachsen, and Sachsen-Anhalt. 

These scholarships can cover up to 50% of the workshop fee, excluding accommodation.

Please note that while German citizenship is not required, applicants must be currently registered as residents of one of these regions to be eligible for the scholarship.

Important: Do not register for the workshop while applying for a scholarship.

Applications are open until 
Please follow the link below to apply.

Scholarship Application 

Company Discount:

If a second person from the same company books at the same time and at the standard rate, they are eligible for a EUR 200 discount. To claim this, please reach out to us for a discount code.

EAVE Alumni Discount:

Thanks to our partner EAVE, we are offering a EUR 90 discount to alumni of their programme. 

Please note scholarships and discounts are non-combinable.

Funding Opportunities in Your Country:

We encourage all applicants to seek financial support from their national or regional funding bodies, as they may offer bursaries or grants to cover training and professional development.

For information on potential financial support for participating in MEDIA-funded trainings, please contact the MEDIA Desk in your country or region. Please note that participation costs for MEDIA trainings are eligible expenses under MEDIA Development grants.

Here are some opportunities available:

Hotel & Event Venue

We are pleased to welcome you to NH Berlin Alexanderplatz, where you will stay for four nights during the workshop. All workshop sessions will take place in one of the hotel's modern conference rooms. Daily lunches and coffee breaks are included, providing plenty of opportunities to connect with fellow participants throughout the programme.

For more information about the hotel and its facilities, please visit the hotel's website.

Hotel Website

Contact us

Do you still have questions? We're happy to answer you!

Katarzyna von Matthiassen

Katarzyna von Matthiassen

Project Management International Training

+49 (0) 331 76 99 15 09 

Victoria Vosseberg

Victoria Vosseberg

Project Coordination International Training

+49 (0) 331 76 99 15 02

E-Mail

       international@epi.media

Funders & Partners


Funders

Creatve Europe Media
MBB

Partners 

Brehm v.Moers
GRAEF
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