Jacqueline Seignette
Creative and tenacious, Jacqueline will work closely with her clients to arrive at the best solutions. She like to contribute to the strategic process and has a keen eye for spotting an opportunity, as well as the emotions, or the perhaps less rational aspects to negotiations or to a dispute. She has amassed years of experience with intricate infringement procedures and negotiating rates and takes a particular interest in copyright law and collective management.
Chambers Intellectual Property about Jacqueline: "Jacqueline Seignette specialises in the protection of soft IP rights in the entertainment and IT sectors and represents collecting societies in the the music, audio-visual and literary industries. Her recent work highlights include advising BREIN on copyright infringement litigation with News-Service Europe concerning the unauthorised access to music, films, computer software and e-books. According to clients, "she has very deep and profound knowledge of every detail of copyright and collective management."
The Legal500 about Jacqueline:
"Jacqueline Seignette [...] has ‘an extremely high level of expertise.’"
Associations & Memberships:
– Dutch Copyright Law Association (VvA) – Chair
– Comité Exécutif van de Associaton Littéraire et Artistique (ALAI) – Member
– Intellectuele Eigendom en Reclamerecht (IER) law journal – Editor
– Co-author of the IEC handbook on intellectual property law
Speech held at ALAI Congress “Copyright – to be or not to be”, Copenhagen 19 May 2017
The very fundamental right that limits the scope of copyright is also a major justification for copyright protection: freedom of expression.
The recent developments around the world make us realize how important freedom of expression is. Expression is curtailed in many places and on many levels. Not only in countries with a traditionally totalitarian system, but also in countries we used to think of as democratic societies. Journalists are fired and put in prison. Websites and social media are blocked by governments. Networks are banned from presidential press meetings. Etcetera.
