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Overview
Operating a council comprised of Yoon & Yang’s own professionals and external entertainment experts, Yoon & Yang’s Entertainment Team offers in-depth professional legal advisory and consulting services across the entire entertainment industry, including services related to planning, production, distribution, investment advisory, and hiring, doing much more than simply providing general legal advice.
Key Services
- Investment advisory: investment promotion and investment advisory services
- Incorporation: Industry outlook and market analysis, IPO, and M&A advisory services related to incorporation
- Content transactions: Advice on content purchase and distribution, preparation of negotiation strategies based on market analysis, and networking
- Content production: Advice on content planning, development, and production, IP clearance, and content rating review
- IP protection: IP protection for creators and copyright holders, acquisition of copyright and various other IP rights, and related dispute response
- Music copyright: Preparation of negotiation strategies related to music copyright, advice on response to disputes and representation in litigation, and advice on PRO
- Entertainment management: Legal advice on exclusive management agreements (including the Act on the Regulation of Terms and Conditions), employment and labor laws, the Youth Protection Act, right of publicity, and others
- Hiring: Legal advice on headhunting for producers, directors, screenwriters, and staff, employment and labor laws, reference checks, the Personal Information Protection Act, and others
- Marketing: Advice on marketing strategies, agency in contracting, and legal advice on labeling and advertising regulations, the Personal Information Protection Act, unfair competition, and others
- Distribution: Advice on domestic and foreign platform distribution strategies, advice on and representation in contracting, including license agreements, distribution agreements, and others
Representative Cases
- Offered legal advice to Netflix, iQIYI, Coupang Play, and other OTT platforms
- Offered legal advice to JTBC Studios, Chorokbaem Media, and other studios on the production of dramas
- Offered legal advice for numerous films and dramas, including Miracle in Cell No. 7, Along with the Gods, Warriors of the Dawn, Incarnation of Money, Mask, My Sassy Girl, and Swallow the Sun
- Offered legal advice on Sim Entertainment’s KOSDAQ listing
- Offered legal advice on the establishment of Be Funny Studios, the Korean subsidiary of U.S.-based Funny or Die and global agency CAA, and Merry Christmas (film investor/distributor), the Korean subsidiary of Huayi Brothers
- YG Sports Co., Ltd.’s capital increase with consideration and sale of old shares and management rights in Greenworks
- HB Entertainment’s investment promotion (sale of old shares and issuance of new shares)
- Advised Chorokbaem Media on ways to attract investment on numerous occasions
- Represented CJ Entertainment in litigation regarding music copyright infringement by Soribada
- Represented Warner Bros., CJ Entertainment, and other domestic and foreign film producers and distributors in copyright infringement injunction and damages litigation cases filed against online file sharing companies
- Represented terrestrial TV broadcasting stations in a litigation seeking an injunction prohibiting retransmission by system operators
- Handled the constitutional complaint and adjudication on constitutionality cases regarding Article 29(2) of the Copyright Act
- Advised C&M on the Broadcasting Act, the Personal Information Protection Act, the Information and Communications Network Act, and others in connection with its new business
- Handled KEFICO’s infringement injunction application case against a trademark pirate in China
- Handled copyright infringement injunction case between Stomp Music and Yiruma
- Offered legal advisory and litigation services to numerous entertainers, including singer Rain, Lee Byung Hun, Kim Yun Seok, Gianna Jun, Yoo Haejin, Ryu Seung Ryong, Joo Won, Uhm Junghwa, Han Hyo Joo, Cha Tae Hyun, Kang Jihwan, Song Joong Ki, Han Ga In, Yoon Kye-sang, Kim Sarang, Outsider, and Tony An
