Media & Entertainment

K&P provides high quality legal services to both individuals and companies, covering the full scope of Media and Entertainment issues. We work alongside our commercial, corporate finance, employment, property, IP and dispute resolution teams to provide an innovative interdisciplinary service.

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The Press & Ongoing Support to Editors

K&P advises the largest newspaper publishers in Poland. With our understanding of the industry and the market, we can offer our clients integrated and comprehensive legal assistance.

Multimedia

With the interdisciplinary cooperation of our lawyers and our expertise in the multimedia services sector, we can provide the best possible and business-focused legal solutions to radio and television broadcasters and operators of digital platforms and cable networks.

Advertising, Promotion & Marketing

Being aware of the dynamic development and constant changes in the advertising market, we provide customized legal services to our clients. We have an innovative and progressive approach to law and know how to tailor legal solutions to the needs of the advertising, promotion and marketing markets, and novel, original and unusual promotion solutions.

Film & Music

With our experience in working with authors, producers and artists and our unconventional approach to law, we can cater to the individual needs of our clients. We are open and innovative in our work to address the unique nature of the projects in which we are involved.

Experience

A case against Ringier Axel Springer Polska won before the Supreme Court

The dispute concerned a press article that mentioned the criminal past of a former acting manager of the Centre for Education Development (a public entity of the Ministry of National Education), who was responsible for the use of EU funding. As a result of the cassation appeal filed by K&P’s lawyers, the Supreme Court held that expungement of conviction was a legal fiction that did not erase the conviction from people’s minds and did not change the facts. A conviction, even if spent, can be significant and may be mentioned in the press, especially in relation to public officers. The judgment is final.

A case won for the Publisher of Przegląd Sportowy magazine and football player Tomasz Frankowski against Frankowski’s manager

The dispute concerned a press article which described the unethical and dishonest behavior of the sport manager towards Tomasz Frankowski when the player was being transferred from Elche CF to Wolverhampton Wolves. The manager sued the publisher of Przegląd Sportowy, the authors of the article and the player, demanding an apology and damages of PLN 760,000. As a result of representation by K&P, the case has been won in its entirety in appellate proceedings, and the Supreme Court has refused to hear the claimant’s cassation appeal due to lack of grounds. The judgment is final.

A case won for the Editor in Chief of Newsweek Polska against Marek Falenta

Marek Falenta, a businessman who was a defendant in the so-called phone hacking scandal, demanded that the Editor in Chief of Newsweek Polska publish a correction to the article titled “Po nitce do Falenty”. As a result of the appeal filed by K&P’s lawyers, the Court of Appeal changed the judgment of the Court of first instance and dismissed the action in its entirety. The judgment is final.

Our Leaders

Piotr Kochański

Managing Partner

Head of Practice

phone +48 22 326 9600
mobile +48 602 218 217
p.kochanski@kochanski.pl

Agnieszka Chajewska

Partner

phone +48 22 326 9600
mobile +48 728 432 414
a.chajewska@kochanski.pl

Latest news

2 Aug 2017

Kochański & Partners win another case for Ringier Axel Springer Polska before the Supreme Court

On 21st July 2017 and 10th May 2017, the Supreme Court in Warsaw dismissed cassation appeals filed by the Polish Society of Authors and Composers (“ZAIKS”) and the Polish Filmmakers Association (“SFP”) (collectively, “OZZ”) in case No. I CSK 738/16 and case No. I CSK 738/16, respectively. The two cases were brought against Ringier Axel […]

27 Jul 2017

Press law. Court proceedings in press cases.

We are pleased to announce that on July 24th, 2017, the C.H.Beck series Court Commentaries by Topic (Polish: Sądowe Komentarze Tematyczne) have been enriched by the addition of a publication by Kochanski Zięba and Partners lawyers: Agnieszka Chajewska (Advocate, Senior Associate), Anna Cichońska (Advocate, Partner) and Konrad Orlik (Advocate, Partner, Head of Litigation Practice). Commentary […]

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