Intellectual property lawfor the creative and innovative industries.
Copyright, trademarks, designs, contracts and litigation: Safar Avocat advises and represents artists, brands, producers, galleries and innovative companies, in France and internationally.
Protecting your creations, enforcing your rights, securing your contracts.
From protecting a work or a trademark to fighting infringement, from negotiating a contract to keeping a platform compliant: six practice areas, built around real-world situations.
Copyright & designs
Protecting a work, a design, a collection or a format: proof of authorship, registrations, moral rights.
Learn moreTrademarks
Clearance searches, INPI and EUIPO filings, licensing: registering and defending your signs, in France and abroad.
Learn moreFilm & media
Production, co-production, chain of title, formats, distribution: supporting works from script to screen.
Learn moreArt law & the art market
Artists, galleries, collectors: transactions, authenticity and provenance, representation agreements.
Learn moreDigital & artificial intelligence
Platforms, terms of service, regulatory compliance, AI: solid legal documentation, built for your product.
Learn moreInfringement & litigation
Stopping the copy or defending against a claim: evidence, cease and desist, infringement seizure, settlement or trial.
Learn moreA solution-driven practice: understanding the objective, setting out the options and their implications, and recommending the most effective path to get there.
Photograph: Rinko Kawauchi, The Eyes, the Ears
Gabriel Safar, member of the Paris Bar.
Trained at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a specialist intellectual property practice — precise, responsive, and fluent in common-law contracts. Cross-border matters are handled in French and English. He teaches contract law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
15, rue du Louvre
Paris 1er
The firm welcomes clients in the heart of the 1st arrondissement, a few steps from the Louvre, the Palais-Royal and the Bourse de Commerce.
Each profile’s recurring questions, clearly answered.
Launching your platform: the five legal pillars
Trademark, terms of service, contractor agreements, applicable regulation, personal data: the founder’s checklist.
Artists: five habits that protect your practice
Proof of authorship, written assignments, the gallery relationship, moral rights, responding to copying.
Producers: chain of title in five points
Authors, music, performers, formats and options, distribution: securing every link.
Safar AI, the firm’s legal assistant.
Developed by the firm, Safar AI is a free conversational assistant providing general legal guidance, available to everyone, at any time.
It does not replace a lawyer’s analysis: where your situation requires it, the firm takes over.
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