Julien Brunet
Member of the Paris Bar since 2013
Paris Bar admission in 2013
Californie Bar admission in 2022
Julien BRUNET practices intellectual property law, as well as new technologies, information and communication law. He advises and litigates in various sectors of activity (cinema, audiovisual, communication, publishing, music, personal data, new technologies).
Julien advises his clients in the legal structuring (contractual chains and financing) of film and audiovisual projects (feature films, TV series, streams, immersive works) and defends their interests in legal proceedings.
Julien has extensive expertise in new technologies and drafts commercial contracts for his clients in English and French (software licenses, GTCs, GTCs, partnership agreements). He ensures the compliance of companies, particularly in the digital sector, with the current data protection regulations, as well as with the control procedures of the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL).
Prior to joining Spring Legal, Julien worked at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris in media law and at Orange Silicon Valley in San Francisco in new technologies.
Julien holds a doctorate in law from the University of Florence and a double degree in French and Italian business law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which he validated by obtaining a tesi specialistica en droit de l’audiovisuel sur « la transposition de la directive 2007/65/CE Services de Médias Audiovisuels en France et en Italie » (2010), sous la direction de Giuseppe CONTE, ancien Président du Conseil italien.
Julien holds a Master’s degree in Film and Audiovisual Law (Lyon 3, 2011) and an LL.M in Entertainment Law (UCLA, 2016).
Julien is the author of numerous articles (Revue Juris Art éditions Dalloz) and is a regular contributor to the professional journal ECRAN TOTAL, a reference for the creative industries.
Julien is a lecturer at ESSEC Business School and at La Sorbonne in the Digital Media Cinema master’s program under the direction of Nicolas Brigaud-Robert. Finally, he is involved in the professional training course “Les Nouveaux Diffuseurs” (The New Broadcasters) of the DIXIT publishing house under the direction of Pascal Lechevallier.
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Literary and artistic property (copyright, related rights)
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Intellectual property litigation (infringement) and unfair competition
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Media law (regulatory) and financing of creation (audiovisual production contracts)
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NTIC (software licenses, immersive realities)
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Compliancewith data protection regulations (personal data)
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Film and audiovisual industry
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Immersive reality industry (augmented, virtual and mixed realities).
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Start-ups and digital companies
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Sport (Soccer club)
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E-commerce
- Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France
LLM Business Law, Film, Audiovisual and Multimedia Law - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1, Paris, France
LLM in Comparative Business Law, French and Italian Law and graduate of the University of Law of Firenze - Università degli Studi di Firenze, Giurisprudenza, Florence, Italy
Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza (LL.B), French and Italian Law
- Englis
- Italian
- Virtual reality and the law – December 2017
- The line producer, accountable – February 2017, n°43 (p.28-30)
- Franco-American co-production, a cooperation to build – March 2016, n°34 (p.29-33)
- The right to caricature, a free expression in question – March 2015, n°23 (p.38-40)
- Framing: the CJEU confirms its liberal approach – January 2015, n° 20 (p.37-39)
- Netflix and the French market: between tradition and modernity – July / August 2014, n° 15 (p.35-39)
- State aid: cultural exception and territoriality in the spotlight – June 2014, n° 14 (p.47-51)
- Tax credit technique: a transversal approach in cultural industries – April 2014, n° 12 (p.19-24)
- – Interpretation by the CJEU of the exclusive right of the owner of a Community trademark – May 2013, No. 2 (p.12).
- “The Pirate Bay”: restriction on freedom of expression justified – May 2013, n° 2 (p.11)
- Determination of the original copyright owner: applicable Berne Convention – June 2013, n° 3 (p.10)
- Tax credits: a long-awaited reform – July / August 2013, n° 4 (p.42-47)
- Termination of a rights assignment contract and continuation of previous exploitation contracts – Sept. 2013, n° 5 (p.11)
