28.11.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Mind the Tax: Watch Out for Taxes
An indispensable element of film production is securing financing, as well as skillfully spreading it out over time during production and planning the related cash flows. In the planning process, it is important to remember the tax implications of certain actions, which—if unforeseen—can disrupt the production process, but if well planned, can significantly improve it. [...]
04.09.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
A Fictional Shot – Real Consequences. On Criminal Liability for Fatal Accidents on Film Sets
Film production often involves the necessity of performing actions that carry an increased risk to the life and health of those engaged in making the film. This is particularly the case with stunt scenes and when pyrotechnics, explosives, or firearms are used on set. From time to time, due to technical malfunctions, failures in safety [...]
16.07.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
PR Management in Private Company Acquisition Transactions
Acquiring a company is a complex undertaking that requires not only precise financial and legal planning but also effective communication and public relations (hereinafter collectively referred to as “PR”) management. Before proceeding – the term “company acquisition” is, of course, a simplification. A change in a company’s “owner” can take various forms depending on the [...]
04.07.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Protecting Minors Online – The New Polish Draft Law on Harmful Content
The Internet is undoubtedly a groundbreaking invention, comparable to electricity or the steam engine – things that have changed the world. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Internet has increasingly shaped our reality, gradually providing us with tools to facilitate communication, work, and entertainment. However, along with numerous benefits, it has also brought [...]
18.06.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Behind the Scenes of Intimacy
In film production, actors are expected to be highly skilled and well-prepared to perform various scenes. Particularly demanding are intimate and sex scenes. Their authenticity is crucial, but so is ensuring the psychological comfort and safety of the actors involved. These goals can be achieved through cooperation with intimacy coordinators – a practice that aligns [...]
22.01.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Playing in the same key – the cooperation between a musician and a manager
One of the key aspects of building a musician’s career in the artistic field is their relationship with the manager. The manager does not only support the artist in organization and promotion but often takes responsibility for financial issues, contracts, negotiations with partners or even manages the artist’s copyrights. This collaboration should be based not [...]
14.01.2025
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
When movie magic plays off-screen
Film music has a significant role in creating atmosphere and emotion on screen. Not only does it provide a backdrop to the plot and evoke emotions, but it also affects our imagination. Until recently, film producers, when thinking about creating music for a film, focused mainly on the authorial aspect of making music for a [...]
11.11.2024
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
R&D relief not only for scientists and inventors, or how to take advantage of relief in the creative industry
The essence of R&D relief At the beginning we will explain what really the R&D relief is. To put it as simply as possible, R&D relief is a relief for research and development, which consists of the possibility to recognize a given cost as a tax-deductible expense twice. In other words, it is a double [...]
10.10.2024
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
The new rules for the processing of personal data by online pharmacies
On 4 October 2024, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in Case C-21/23, which will significantly impact e-commerce businesses, particularly pharmacies selling online. The Court decided that the information entered in ordering medicines online, such as name, delivery address and elements necessary for the individualisation of medicinal products, constitutes 'health data' within the [...]
19.06.2024
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
New frames for protection and regulation of media in European Union – European Media Freedom Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market and amending Directive 2010/13/EU (European Media Freedom Act) came into force in May. What does it bring with itself? During her speech to the European Parliament, Ursula von der [...]
19.01.2023
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
What's new in PISF Operational Programmes for 2023?
Like every year, the Director of the Polish Film Institute (PISF) has announced new Operational Programmes, previously approved by the PISF Council. What novelties have been introduced to the Programmes this year? We present a summary of the most important changes, considering all grant applicants, but especially film producers, who can apply for funding for [...]
14.12.2022
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Supreme Court ruling on Chomikuj.pl. What does this mean for service providers?
The Supreme Court has recently drafted a justification of the judgment in the famous case against Chomikuj.pl. What does this judgment mean for the service itself as well as other service providers? What can we learn about the obligations of service providers from the justification? In May 2022 The Supreme Court issued a verdict in [...]
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