Dr. Ulrich Fuchs

Partner

Copyright law is an exciting and intellectually challenging legal domain. It offers insights into the creative worlds of creative personalities.

Dr. Ulrich Fuchs specializes in advising on national and international movie and TV productions. His legal advice encompasses all phases of project development and exploitation, ranging from pre-production and financing to national and international exploitation. In addition, he has particular experience and expertise in advice on trials and in litigation. He further advises on copyright matters and personality rights, including strategic issues in the pre-litigation stage. On an international level, he has extensive experience in the rules of U.S. Entertainment Guilds in the movie industry (WGA, DGA, SAG).

Career

Law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich / Germany
Studium Generale at the Universitá per stranieri, Perugia / Italy
Doctoral scholarship and research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property
Doctorate with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schricker on Italian and German copyright law
1997-1999: Lawyer with a law firm specialising in music law
1999-2001: in-house lawyer for the Bavaria Film Group
Since 2001 at SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte, where he has been a partner since 2003

Awards & Recognitions

Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers: Germany's best lawyers 2019 - 2022
Recommended lawyer in the category "Media and Copyright Law"

The Legal 500
Main work contacts
Renowned international lawyer manual "The Legal 500" has been recognizing Dr. Ulrich Fuchs as one of the "main work contacts" as lawyer for "Media & Entertainment" already since 2006.

JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms
Frequently recommended lawyer
Dr. Ulrich Fuchs has been listed in JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms as frequently recommended lawyer since 2007, including in Media Law and in the Southern / Munich Region.

Miscellaneous activities

Dr. Ulrich Fuchs is lecturer at Münchner Filmwerkstatt e.V. for Copyright Law and Personality Law, lecturer at DeutscheAnwaltAkademie (training institute of Deutscher Anwaltverein) for the training of Certified Experts in Copyright and Media Law – Department Film and TV Contract Law and lecturer at ARD-ZDF Media Academy in Copyright and Media Law.

Publications

Articles in periodicals

„Die Beachtung von Persönlichkeitsrechten bei der Verfilmung wahrer Begebenheiten“, in: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kommunikationsrecht (AfP), 2015, Heft 5, S. 389 ff.

Contributions to collected editions

„Die Verträge mit den Kopierwerken und den Lieferanten von Aufnahmematerialien / Die Verträge für die Filmversicherung“, in: Handbuch Filmrecht, Hrsg. Schwarz, 2020, 6. Aufl., Kapitel 117 und 118
„Medienproduktionsverträge / Medienvertriebsverträge“, in: Hamburger Kommentar Gesamtes Medienrecht, Hrsg. Paschke/Berlit/Meyer/Kröner, 2020, 4. Aufl., Kapitel 48 und 49
„Unternehmen und Marken im Film – Unternehmenspersönlichkeitsrecht und Markenrecht versus Kunstfreiheit“, in: Festschrift für Mathias Schwarz zum 65. Geburtstag, Zwischen Gestern und Morgen – Medien im Wandel, Hrsg. Christoph Haesner/Johannes Kreile/Gernot Schulze, 2017

Lawyer

Certified Expert in Copyright and Media Law

Office

Munich