Worldwide: Media & Entertainment Law

Professional footballers operate within a dual contractual framework: the sports employment contract with their club and the agency contract with their sports agent. This complex legal structure creates unique challenges at the intersection of labour law and sports regulation, where conflicts of interest, contractual misalignments, and overlapping obligations frequently emerge during negotiations, contract management, and relationship termination.

For many musicians, intellectual property protection begins and ends with copyright. Copyright law is widely understood in the music industry as the legal framework that protects songs, lyrics, recordings, and other creative works. While copyright is important, it is far from the only tool available to artists seeking to protect their brand and livelihood.

Once the Wild West of advertising, influencer marketing in Ireland has matured into a powerful commercial channel now firmly under the watchful eye of regulators.