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Legal Consultancy

Through its Legal Consultancy Department, Microgénesis offers a full range of business-oriented legal services. Our services are focused on support for topics related with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Law, as well as Telecommunications Law.

 

Areas of specialization

 

Within the fields of ICT specialization, the group of attorneys who make up the Department have wide-ranging experience in all of the aspects related with intellectual property and, more specifically, with everything that has to do with the business of digital contents. Microgénesis has specialized in carrying out legal audits of websites and blogs, legal notices, database processing and the management of domain names, as well as other services.


Also noteworthy is its knowledge, at both the technical and legal levels, of Information Society Services and the Electronic Signature, as well as their practical application.

We must point out the leadership of Microgénesis in legal consultation for free software, in which it holds the status of a partner for several of the most prestigious solutions.

Moreover, it has a long professional history in the field of protecting information of a personal nature, in terms of the recording of files, video surveillance, performing audits and measures for action in the event of possible claims and sanctions.


In the area of specialization of Telecommunications, the Legal Department has a great deal of experience providing consultation in relation with market access conditions, permits and fees, dialing, inter-connection and, all in all, full consultation for the proper rendering of regulated  services with full legal security.

 

Services


Our main fields of activity are listed below:


Media:


    1. Registration of works, at both the General Authors’ and Publishers’ Society and at the Intellectual Property Registry.
    2. Consulting on legal topics related with the financing, production and distribution of audiovisual and musical contents.
    3. Drafting, negotiation and revision of audiovisual, musical and management contracts.
    4. Legal consulting for self-production and self-distribution.
    5. Resolution of specific questions regarding intellectual and industrial property.

Internet and ICT Law:


    1. Negotiation of Information Services or information systems contracts (development and distribution of software, escrow, hosting, housing, outsourcing, etc.)
    2. Consultation on legal aspects regarding the creation, distribution, integration and use of Free Software.
    3. Legal aspects regarding e-commerce and electronic signatures.
    4. Legal auditing of websites and adaptation to the current regulations.
    5. Drafting of contracts, clauses and privacy policies.
    6. Advice on computer-related crimes and fraud.
    7. Legal system on gambling and betting through the Internet.

Intellectual and Industrial Property:


    1. Drafting and revision of contracts (assignment of property rights, literary publishing, software development, etc.)
    2. Obtaining and registering patents, trademarks, drawings, domain names, etc.
    3. Advice for resolving conflicts in the field of domain names.

Consultation on topics related with telecommunications:


    1. Notifications of networks and services to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT).
    2. Landlines, mobile telephones and data services.
    3. Dialing services.

Data protection:


    1. Registration of files at the Data Protection Agency.
    2. Drafting of security documents.
    3. Drafting and revision of service agreements.
    4. Drafting of legal notices and compliance of procedures with the current regulations.

Legal consultancy on advertising


    1. Legal consulting on applying for Aid and Subsidies in national projects (tractors, CENIT, Profit, etc.) and European projects (Eureka, Celtic, CIP, etc.). These services include:


      1. Adaptation of the projects to the current rules and regulations.
      2. Drafting of consortium agreements for relations with sub-contracted companies.