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Profile
Antonio Muñoz Vico is a principal associate in the Intellectual Property Department working in the areas of Telecommunications & Media and Sports & Entertainment.
He has extensive experience in the fields of copyright and arts and entertainment law, advertising, unfair competition, honor, privacy and publicity rights, the right to information, freedom of expression and literary and artistic creation, among others.
He provides recurring advice to individuals and legal businesses in the culture and digital sectors and has a great deal of expertise in the media, publishing, music and art industries. He is a regular speaker at well-known professional forums such as Academia del Cine, LÍBER, BIMEPro, or Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA).
He teaches various postgraduate courses at prestigious universities: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense, Universidad Carlos III or the Madrid Cinema Institute, inter alia.
Antonio Muñoz Vico is chairman of the Culture & Law Division of the Madrid Bar Association and a founding partner of the think-tank Laboratorio de Ideas sobre el Libro. He has been praised by the international rankings Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IP Stars, Media Law International and Best Lawyers. Before joining Garrigues, he worked as a stagiaire at the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission in Brussels.
Education
Degree in Law, Universidad de Granada;
IP studies at the London School of Economics
Master's Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues in collaboration with Harvard Law School.
Areas of Practice
- Intellectual Property
- Sports & Entertainment
- Telecommunications & Media
Professional Career
Articles
Antonio is co-author of the book "The Copyright in Question" (*) and author of numerous articles and publications including: "Brexit and copyright in Europe" (El País, 2021)(*); "Raising the clapper-board: Spain tunes up its audiovisual industry after Covid-19 impact" (El País | Cinco Días, 2020) (*); "Music and copyright in pandemic times" (Magazine Garrigues Sports & Entertainment, 2020)(*); "Barbarians of Culture" (translation of Imperfect Justice, by Stuart Eizenstat) (Berg Institute, 2019) (*); "Balloons over the Atlantic or how to defend Europe in an era of post truth" (CEDRO, 2018) (*); "Culture at the center of the legal debate: why a Culture & Law Division at the Madrid Bar Association?" (*) (Law and Trends, 2018); "VCAST v RTI: towards private copying in the cloud?" (*) (Pe.i. Revista de Propiedad Intelectual, 2018); "Digital copyright takes off in Europe" (Lefevre · El Derecho, 2017); "Copyright in the cultural industry" (*) (Expansión, 2017); "Salvador Dali's Legacy: Deprived of Image Rights?" (Best Lawyers, 2017); "Praise and Criticism of the Collective Management of Copyrights: A Spanish and European Look" (International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2015); "Books and their legal framework: present and future" (*) (Laboratorio del Libro, 2015); "Ramírez de Lucas: disclosure of an unpublished work" (*) (El País, 2014); and "The right to honor, privacy and publicity in danger" (*) (Revista del Consejo General de la Abogacía, 2010).
(*) Originally written in Spanish. See Spanish version of CV for original titles.
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