Entertainment Industry and the Legal Framework of Intellectual Property
The entertainment industry — film, television, music, publishing and digital platforms — is regulated in Georgia primarily by the law on copyright and neighbouring rights. This law determines who owns the economic rights in a work, how they are transferred by contract, which rights remain with the author, and what special rights publishers and broadcasting organizations hold. For participants in the industry every project must therefore be legally structured: which right belongs to whom and which transfers are fixed in the agreement.
Most disputes in the entertainment sector begin precisely with the ownership of rights: a producer believes everything belongs to the studio, while the author considers that the collaboration meant only a permission to use the work. Avoiding these conflicts requires exact knowledge of the norms establishing the regime for publishers, audiovisual works and works made in the course of employment, as well as the procedure for transferring economic rights.