Lance Phillips

Lance Phillips is a Partner in the Digital Media and Music Groups.

His practice focuses primarily on digital, online and mobile exploitation of content; music in the interactive and technology start-up sectors; interactive software/applications, software and content licensing; digital distribution, branding, merchandising and sponsorship; and image and intellectual property rights.

His clients range from established recording artists, new unsigned acts, technology start-ups and acceleration/incubation schemes, production houses, advertising agencies, digital providers and platforms and corporate clients within the music, media and digital/interactive sectors.

Recent work includes:

• Advising an internationally renowned recording artist on their new interactive website
• Advising computer games developers and film production companies on composer agreements and all music elements of production
• Advising and providing core terms and licensing agreements to a new social media website
• Advising the developer of an online mixing application on all commercial/legal issues
• Advising a bespoke music production company for artist-partnership licensing of content
• Advising an online music synchronisation agency and providing precedent licensing and other core agreements
• Advising a digital advertising and branding agency on its core documentation

Lance has advised a number of the participant companies in the 02/Telefonica WAYRA scheme in the UK. He regularly speaks at various interactive and digital media events, and contributes to a number of publications.

Lance is a member of the APRS.