Media and Entertainment Law
We represent clients across motion pictures, television, theatre, news media, production and distribution houses, podcasts, radio, fashion and music, including actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, musicians, comedians, content creators, models and designers. We also act for production, distribution, syndication, broadcast and financing companies, and for sports organisations and athletes, whose legal needs overlap with entertainment more than people often expect.
The Legal Framework
Entertainment work in Nepal rests mainly on the Copyright Act, 2059 (2002), which governs literary, artistic, musical and audiovisual works and grants both economic and moral rights to authors and performers. Economic rights cover reproduction, distribution and public performance, while moral rights protect an author’s claim to the work and its integrity regardless of who holds the commercial rights. Registration is not mandatory, so rights exist from the moment of creation, but proving ownership and chain of title is far easier when contracts, assignments and credit records have been handled properly from the start.
Film carries its own regulatory layer through the Motion Picture (Production, Exhibition and Distribution) Act and the Film Development Board, which oversees censorship, exhibition licensing and, increasingly, licensing for digital platforms. The sector also faces a live piracy problem that has moved from physical bootlegging to phone recordings of screenings shared on social media.
What We Do
- Agreements: production agreements, distribution deals, talent and performance contracts, licensing arrangements, endorsement and sponsorship agreements and financing documents, built to reflect how entertainment deals are actually structured.
- Intellectual property: protecting copyright in creative works, performers’ rights and the commercial value tied to a person’s name, image and likeness, which is often a public figure’s primary asset.
- Disputes: representation in contractual disagreements, copyright infringement claims and conflicts over credit, royalties or rights ownership.
Our Approach
Entertainment work runs on relationships and reputations as much as contracts. We aim to be artist-friendly: advice that helps clients make the right decisions, protect their creative work and have someone standing behind them when a dispute arises.
