IAEL @ ADE 2025
IAEL ADE - AMSTERDAM 2025
12.30 – 13.30: Meet A Music Lawyer (For Free!)
LOCATION:Felix Meritis (Room: Koepelzaal), Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
IAEL member lawyers only. Free clinic where IAEL lawyers will be available to ADE attendees one-to-one to provide guidance on relevant legal topics in music, media and entertainment.
14.00 – 15.00: IAEL Masterclass – "The Owership Remix": An International Perspective On Rights In Musical Works
LOCATION: Felix Meritis (Room: Koepelzaal), Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
Our expert panel will provide an international discussion of all the various rights related to musical works, including how such rights are determined, who owns those rights, how to avoid ownership disputes, and the impact of technological developments like AI.
Moderator:
Bradley Mullins, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (USA)
Speakers:
Lindsay Edelstein, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (USA)
Josh Graubart, Principal, Law Offices of Joshua Graubart, P.C. (USA)
Massimo Travostino, Partner, DGTB Legal (Italy)
15.45 – 17.45: IAEL Main Seminar & Book Launch - Hot Legal Topics in the Music Business A Quarter into the Century
LOCATION:Felix Meritis (Room: Teekenzaal 1), Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
A quarter into the 21st Century, the music business is more global, digital, and legally complex than ever before. To mark the launch of the IAEL’s 2025 Yearbook, Music Without Borders: Hot Legal Topics in the Music Business after the First Quarter of the 21st Century, this special ADE panel brings together the book’s contributors for a lively discussion on today’s most pressing legal and business challenges.Topics will range from how artist branding and superfan activities are redefining careers, while new realities in record deals and catalogue sales are transforming business models.Cross-border issues are also in focus - from taxation for artists and copyright termination beyond U.S. borders, to the intricacies of licensing with CMOs in Italy, music distribution in China, and the long-debated Atresmedia equitable remuneration case.A special spotlight will be on artificial intelligence, with contributors examining authorship questions, the EU’s AI Act, and the rise of avatars, live entertainment technologies, and AI-generated “companion celebrities.”With insights from leading entertainment lawyers spanning multiple continents, this panel offers a rare, inside look at how law and technology are reshaping the global music industry - and where we go from here
Chairs:
Kenneth D. Freundlich, Founder, Freundlich Law (USA)
Margriet Koedooder, Partner, De Vos & Partners (Netherlands)
Speakers:
John Abrams, Associate, Lewis Birnberg Hanet Bobadilla (Canada)
Rodolphe Boissau, Senior Associate, UGGC Avocats (France)
Dennis Engbrink, Head of Media & Entertainment, ZIRNGIBL (Germany)
Marcelo Goyanes, Partner, Murta Goyanes (Brazil)
Victor den Hollander, Associate, De Vos & Partners (Netherlands)
Sergio de Juan-Creix, Partner, Croma Legal (Spain).
Anthony Leung, Partner, Haldanes (Hong Kong)
John McLellan, Partner, Haldanes (Hong Kong)
Dick Molenaar, Tax Partner, All Arts (Netherlands)
Anne-Marie Pecoraro, Partner, UGGC Avocats (France)
Olivia van Rikxoort, Associate, De Vos & Partners (Netherlands)
Stephanie Rotelli, Founder, Cosmo Legal Group (Italy)
Lotte Rutgers, Associate, Leeway (Netherlands)
Götz Schneider-Rothhaar, Partner, SKW Schwarz (German)
Olga Sihtar, Managing Associate, Orsingher Ortu (Italy)
Massimo Travostino, Partner, DGTB Legal (Italy)
Emmanuel Verraes, Indie Law (Belgium)
Followed by 18.15 - 20.15: IAEL Cocktails in conjunction with Music Publishers Canada
Herengracht 450-458, Amsterdam.
IAEL members only.
Thursday 23 October 2025
16.00 – 17.30: IAEL Legal Update for Entertainment & Technology
LOCATION:Felix Meritis (Room: Koepelzaal), Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
This session is your front-row seat to the latest legal happenings in the entertainment/music/tech industries across the world. Once again, legal and industry experts will weigh in on the hottest legal topics that defined 2025 and will shape 2026. This year’s edition will cover the legal impact of AI, including decided judgments (e.g. on the application of the TDM copyright exception and generative AI) and settled and ongoing lawsuits against AI companies from the US and around the world, as well as the licensing deals being hashed out to authorize data mining of copyright-protected entertainment content. We’ll discuss the rising value of name, image and likeness (“NIL”) rights in the music industry, including recent novel legislative efforts to protect NIL (e.g. ELVIS act in Tennessee, Dutch and Danish proposals for legislation on deepfakes, trademark registrations for faces and artist/band names), as well as legal issues arising from the use of NIL of dead artists for avatar concerts and videos. Further, we’ll address the status of the Pelham II case, pending before the CJEU with regard to the notion of “pastiche” and the impact of the Belgian National Orchestra judgment of the CJEU.
Co-Chairs:
Susan Abramovitch, Head of Entertainment & Sports Law, Gowling WLG (Canada)
Peter Marx, Partner, MVVP (Belgium)
Speakers:
Faisal Daudpota, Partner, Daudpota International (UAE)
Ben Foulston, Senior Associate, Clintons (UK)
Ryan McWhinnie, Senior Licensing Lawyer, Merlin Network (UK)
Götz Schneider-Rothhaar, Partner, SKW Schwarz (Germany)
Bianca Tillman, Associate, Dorsey & Whitney (US)
19.00 – 22.00: IAEL Members Dinner Cruise
IAEL members only. Meet in front of the Andaz Hotel - Prinsengracht 587, 1016 HT Amsterdam, Netherlands
Friday 24 October 2025
10.15 – 11.45: The IAEL AGM
LOCATION:Felix Meritis (Room: Teekenzaal 2), Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
IAEL members only. Annual general meeting of the IAEL.
US CLE Credits pending
