Media Law International ranks our firm as follows: “GRAEF is one of the top law firms for entertainment law, media law and IP law. It focuses on clients from the film and television, book publishing, computer games, and live entertainment industries, as well as on public figures. Managed by Ralph Oliver Graef, the firm has exceptional experience in the financing and production of national and international films, as well as the vetting of scripts and manuscripts. Additional specialties include the right to freedom of expression, litigation PR and data protection. Clients praise the team for its top-notch legal advice, its hands-on approach and its exceptionally high success rate in court.”

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The Hamburg Games Conference 2022 is in the starting blocks. After the great success of our online conference in 2021, we are planning a hybrid event for 2022 and are looking forward to many international participants in addition to the national participants.

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In an interview with MAX, Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef (GRAEF Rechtsanwälte) classifies the legal aspects of the new ARD series “Legal Affairs,” which takes us into the world of media lawyers, the shallows of the boulevard and popcorn press law.

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Social responsibility in times of transformation
Lecture on “Hate Speech” by Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef on November 23, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

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GRAEF Attorneys at Law on the Right to Data in Industry 4.0

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How competitive are Germany’s cinema films in the international arena? How sustainable is national film funding? Dr. Carsten Brosda (Senator for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), Tabea Rößner (Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and Martin Turowski (cinema operator and board member of Kinoverbund Schleswig-Holstein) were among the speakers at the CinemaxX Dammtor.

FOCUS Spezial 2021 recommends GRAEF Rechtsanwälte as a top law firm in the area of “Media and Press”. Our firm was “disproportionately recommended by colleagues”.

Ralph Oliver Graef is named one of Germany’s best lawyers in “Entertainment Law” for the eighth time by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers.

GRAEF Rechtsanwälte is very happy to support Series Lab Hamburg, the project development, co-production and financing event organized by Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Hamburg. Creative Europe is the funding program for Europe’s audiovisual sector and the cultural and creative industries. Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef will be delivering the key note on “News from Brussels?! on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

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The film “LOVEPARADE – The Negotiation”, which we have been advising, wins the Grimme Award 2021. Congratulations to DOCDAYS Productions and Dominik Wessely (director).

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We are thrilled that GRAEF Rechtsanwälte has once again been ranked Tier 1 in „press and media law“ and „trademark law“ in ‚The Best Business Law Firms in Germany 2021’ by brand eins magazine.

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Journalist may continue to report on double plagiarism. FAZ journalist Dr. Jochen Zenthöfer wins important landmark ruling with GRAEF Rechtsanwälte on press coverage of scientific doctoral theses and habilitations.

Congratulations to Mimimi Games for the double win at the German Computer Game Awards (Best Game and Best Studio) and Quantumfrog for the Best Family Game award! And Supercrowd Entertainment won the special prize for the Indie Arena Booth. Congratulations to all winners!

The Wirecard scandal is filleted in a great and highly original way in the book “Bad Company” from Penguin Random House, a “must read”. And, as to be expected, not everyone in charge and involved likes it. SPIEGEL documents this attack on the freedom of the press and publishing. Our task: to stand up for precisely this freedom of the press and publishing.

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Hamburg Games Conference 2021 exceeds expectations and sets new standards for B2B online events.

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Our expert Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef in Kicker on the salary cap in the NFL and a possible adoption of the salary cap in the Bundesliga.

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The German version “Hey, Pippi Langstrumpf” is based on the original “Här kommer Pippi Långstrump” written by Astrid Lindgren.

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We send you our best regards and hope to be back in person in Hollywood and Santa Monica in 2021.

Join Erich Pommer Institute for this workshop on digital distribution with our expert on film & television law, Ralph Oliver Graef.

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Powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

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Touching documentary and a truly impressive look behind the scenes of a mammoth court case by Docdays Productions and Antje Boehmert. Powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte.

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Interview with Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef about the pro bono work of our firm.

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One of the big winners of the 70th German Film Awards, with 8 (!) prizes, is the drama “Systemsprenger” by our client Oma Inge Film. The LOLA in Gold was awarded, among others, for Best Feature Film. Congratulations for this outstanding success to all involved (Director/Screenplay: Nora Fingscheidt, Production: Kineo Filmproduktion, Weydemann Bros., Oma Inge Film).

We thank all speakers, our team and all guests for a great Hamburg Games Conference 2020 and look forward to continuing next year.

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Our job as lawyers is to protect freedom of expression. Read this story about Apple’s unsuccessful attempt to obstruct the publication of a book that deals with its business practices and is at the same time very sympathetically written.

DIE ZEIT deals in a very reflective way with the injunction and destruction claims of Apple Inc. and Apple GmbH against the book “AppStore Confidential”. An object lesson for the “Streisand effect”.

Even a powerful company like Apple is not untouchable and must put up with reporting on its business practices within the framework of freedom of the press. Congratulations to our publisher, Murmann Verlag, for keeping a cool head and a clear edge.

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We congratulate our client, T1TAN GmbH, on this outstanding success against Oliver Kahn.

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