MUSIC
Jiří Štaidl
Jiří Štaidl, team leader at the law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. specialising in music, is a sought-after expert thanks to his outstanding negotiating skills and extensive experience in major music projects and festival organisation. In his teaching role, he lectures on copyright law to students at the Department of Production at the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU).
The law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. has extensive experience in providing legal services to the music industry across several European countries. It represents major music publishers, handles day-to-day contractual matters, assists technology start-ups in the music industry with strategic planning for development and acquisitions, and advises on matters relating to music libraries. It provides advice on both primary rights (online and offline distribution, suitable distribution platforms and channels, and relations with YouTube and social media operators) and secondary rights (establishing economically optimal relationships with collective rights management organisations). Part of its practice also involves litigation relating to the enforcement of rights, disputes with content intermediaries (such as YouTube, Hellshare and Hellspy), the protection of brand and reputation, and cases of musical plagiarism. It has extensive experience with disputes within musical ensembles in both popular and classical music. His practice also includes advising symphony orchestras and choirs, as well as smaller musical ensembles and bands, and in the field of musical theatre (opera houses and festivals, musical theatre). It also represents collective rights management organisations in the field of music (SOZA, INTERGRAM, OSA).
- Representation of collective management organisations in the field of music.
- Representation of well-known performers.
- Representation in the field of musical theatre (musicals, opera).
References:
Record labels: Supraphon, Sony BMG, BILLION STREAMS ENTERTAINMENT, s.r.o.
Music libraries: Hudební banka, FreshTracks,
Music festivals: Composers Summit Prague, SOUNDTRACK festival
Film education: HAMU
Technology companies: Aims Api s.r.o.
Composers, musicians and their agencies: NRG, Soundsgate s.r.o., the Ladislav Štaidl estate, emeritus members of the Prague Chamber Orchestra, members of the Prague Cello Quartet and Cello Republic, Aneta Langerová, the band Lucie, Ondřej Brzobohatý, members of the band Limetal
Publishers: ProVox Music Publishing, s.r.o., Bärenreiter Praha s.r.o., Hudobný fond
Musical ensembles: The Czech Philharmonic, members of the Prague Cello Quartet and Cello Republic, members of the band Limetal, the band Lucie
Composers’ estates and provision of pro bono legal services: The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation, The Miloslav Kabeláč Foundation, The Eugen Suchoň Institute, the Ladislav Štaidl estate
Press references:
The law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. represented, for example, Ladislav Štaidl, the composer of the music for Karel Gott’s song ‘Pábitelé’, in a dispute with James Bay over allegations of musical plagiarism in the song ‘Hold Back the River’. This lawsuit is one of the few of its kind in the Czech music industry, and ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. is striving to protect the rights of the original composer.
- https://www.idnes.cz/kultura/hudba/karel-gott-ladislav-staidl-james-bay-spor-autorska-prava-pabitele-soud.A230704_104224_hudba_jgo
- https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-soudy-resi-zda-je-britsky-hit-nominovany-na-grammy-kopii-slagru-karla-gotta-40435557
- https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/prague-court-to-decide-if-james-bay-stole-from-karel-gott-for-hit-song
Our publications:
DAVID, Ivan, LEŠKA, Rudolf. Playing the System: Content Recognition Technologies and the Creative Process of Sampling Musicians. Vol. 17, No. 1. Brno: Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 2023.
