Christian Collovà

Ponti - De Sanctis & Partners (Italy)

Christian Collovà is born Germany and grew up in Paris, France. He moved to Italy where he completed his course of studies and graduated in law at the University of Rome (Ph.D., with honors) discussing a dissertation on ”Copyright and the Challenge of New Technologies”. While at the university he started his career as a consultant for the music recording industry, advising on licensing and distribution. After a short experience as assistant in Sociology at the University of Rome, in 1999 he joined as an entertainment lawyer Ponti – De Sanctis & Partners Law Firm in Rome, Italy (formerly the Italian offices of Loeb & Loeb LLP). Since 2005 he is partner of the firm.
He represents producers and distributors both in Europe and in the United States and approaches the entertainment industry in a wide, multi-faceted manner. He specializes in Intellectual Property, Copyright and Entertainment, Media and New Technologies, advising international and national clients, in-court and off-court, on a wide area of practice such as film, television and multimedia financing, production and distribution, music recording and publishing, trademarks protection, privacy and data protection, advertising and marketing.
Thanks to a genuine interest into new technologies, he developed a personal approach to the media convergence in the new landscape of technology, with special expertise with regards to internet and new media, cross-media convergence, broadband distribution, digital broadcasting, wireless applications, telecommunica¬tions, digital rights management, domain names disputes resolution.
He is President and Co-founder of “Mediajus.net”, an association aimed to the development of knowledge of the legal aspects in multimedia and intellectual property related matters, and of “Qualiacom”, a consulting business in multimedia and new technologies.
In 2002 and 2003 he participated in the AKMI MEDIA Management Programme Training Courses, a training initiative with the support of the Media Programme of the European Commission (Management and Legal Aspect of Cinema Production Companies - 2002, Management and Legal Aspects of Television Channels Seminar – 2003). In 2005 he attended the Global Leadership Training by Argovela Films – Leading your Coproduction Negotiations.
He co-authored the Italian paper “Overview of the Film Production and Co-Production Opportunities in Italy” for the Film Business School in Ronda, Spain, yearly update. He published on “Il Diritto di Autore”, copyright review of the Italian Copyright Society S.I.A.E. (Società Italiana Autori ed Editori) and on “Bollettino della Siae” (“Siae’s Bulletin”).
He is member of Italian Bar Association, of IBA - International Bar Association, of ABA - American Bar Association (International Associate), of I.A.E.L. - International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, of A.L.A.I. - Association Litéraire et Artistique Internationale and of the aforementioned Mediajus.net
He is fluent in Italian, English and French, he enjoys speaking also Spanish and Portuguese and some words of Greek.

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Christian Collovà è nato in Germania ed è cresciuto a Parigi, Francia. Si è trasferito in Italia, dove ha completato il suo corso di studi e si è laureato presso l’Università di Roma (con lode) con una tesi su “Il diritto d’autore e la sfida tecnologica”. Negli anni dell’università, ha iniziato a lavorare come consulente per l’industria discografica, in materia di licenze e distribuzione. Dopo una breve esperienza come assistente di Sociologia all’Università di Roma, nel 1999 è entrato nello studio legale Ponti – De Sanctis & Partners (già sede italiana della Loeb & Loeb LLP). Dal 2005 è socio dello studio.