---
title: "Entertainment Law"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/entertainment-law-507-en"
field: "Media, Entertainment & Sports Law"
description: "Entertainment law in Georgia: audiovisual co-authors, publisher rights, service works and copyright transfers for film and media. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Entertainment Law

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/entertainment-law-507-en

## 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.

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### Who counts as a co-author of an audiovisual work?

The director, the author of the scenario, the author of the dialogues and the author of a musical work with or without text created specifically for that work.

### Whom does the contract transfer the exclusive right of use to?

A contract on the creation of an audiovisual work transfers the exclusive right of use to the producer, unless the contract provides otherwise; the right to remuneration remains with the authors, and any different agreement is void.

### What happens to the rights in a service work?

The economic rights belong to the employer or the commissioning party unless the contract provides otherwise; the amount of remuneration and the payment procedure are determined by contract between the author and the employer.

### Is a full transfer of economic rights possible?

Yes — the author or another copyright holder may transfer all economic rights or a part of them to a successor, and reflecting that scope precisely is the principal task of the contract.