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About us

Plus One Legal is a boutique law firm in Amsterdam with a clear focus on events, music, entertainment, media, arts & culture. We provide legal services to our creative clients because that’s what we love, supporting creativity to make it happen. In search of goosebumps while enjoying the beautiful things in life.

We are happy to be part of a hybrid and experienced network of like-minded professionals on different legal disciplines, tax law, accounting, financial business, insurance and trade mark and design registrations. To serve our clients both here and abroad.

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  • Events

    • Events & Festivals

      • The Beastie Boys were right: you have to fight for your right to party. We serve many festival and event promotors, clubs, venues, locations, suppliers and production companies. We draft and negotiate agreements related to the organization, production, promotion and exploitation of events, such as:

    • Agreements

      • - Location agreements
      - Cooperation agreements
      - License agreements
      - Master service agreements
      - Production agreements
      - Supplier agreements
      - Hosting agreements
      - Sponsor and partner agreements
      - General terms and conditions of purchase
      - Terms and conditions for visitors
      - Privacy statement and GDPR agreements
      - House rules

    • Intellectual Property

      • In addition, we provide advise and services related to intellectual property (e.g. concepts, brands and design), business structure, negotiations and conflicts with collection societies (copyrights, neighbouring rights), including litigation.

    • Legal courses and workshops

      • Upon request, we provide tailor made inhouse legal courses and workshops on the legal aspects of festival and event organizing.

  • Music

    • Legal courses and workshops

      • Upon request, we provide tailor made in-house legal courses and workshops on copyrights and neighbouring rights related to music.

    • Music

      • For the love of music. We represent many artists and DJs in different genres, both superstars and upcoming talents. In addition we serve management and booking agencies as well as independent record labels, platforms and publishers. We draft and negotiate agreements related to the production and exploitation of music, such as:

    • Agreements

      • - Artist, title and recording agreements
      - Distribution and platform agreements
      - License agreements
      - Master purchase agreements
      - Producer agreements
      - Mixer and remixer agreements
      - Full rights agreements
      - Publishing agreements
      - Deed of assignment
      - Synchronization agreements
      - Management agreements
      - Booking agreements
      - Performance agreements
      - Agency agreements
      - Merchandise agreements
      - Sponsor, branding and endorsement agreements
      - Podcast agreements

    • Intellectual Property

      • We provide advise and services related to intellectual property (e.g. copyrights, neighbouring rights, trade names, trademarks and design), portrait and image rights, music rights and business structure, clearances, (sound) sampling, plagiarism, reversion of rights (back-catalogue), artist estates, collection societies (copyrights and neighbouring righs), including litigation.

  • Arts and Culture

    • Arts & Culture

      • Next to events and music, we serve clients in the field of arts & culture, such as museums, designers (e.g. graphic, web, industrial, light and stage), photographers, video producers, VJs and street artists.

    • Agreements

      • - License agreements
      - Deed of assignment
      - Production agreements
      - Sponsor and partner agreements
      - General terms and conditions of purchase
      - Terms and conditions for visitors
      - Privacy statement and GDPR agreements
      - House rules

  • Media

    Our people

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    Bjorn Schipper

    Entertainment law and intellectual property

    Bjorn Schipper was nearly born and raised on the dance floor. He is a dedicated and passionate entertainment lawyer since 2001 specialized in intellectual property. Nicknamed “the nightlife lawyer” by the former Night Mayor of Amsterdam. Bjorn wrote his thesis back in the days on the copyright protection of turntable art and argued on behalf of dance promotors before the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in a landmark case on the fair remuneration for playing commercial phonograms by DJs at dance events (and did play a white label Italo track before the Supreme Court while arguing). He is also one of the founders of ‘The Nightlife Clerks’, an informal network of like-minded professionals serving nightlife culture.

    Experienced and sought-after speaker, panelist, lecturer and host.

    Managing positions: member of the supervisory board Foundation Night Mayor of Amsterdam (N8BM), member of the board Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en -Festivals (VNPF), member of the board Foundation Motel Mozaïque (MOMO Rotterdam) and member of the board Foundation Hotmamahot. Past: member of the supervisory board Foundation Streetlab.

    Memberships: the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (IAEL), the Dutch Copyright Society (VvA) and the Dutch Society on Media and Communication Law (VMC).

    Martijn Diepenhorst

    Administrative law and permits

    Forget about Saul. Martijn Diepenhorst is the go-to lawyer in regard to permits needed for an event or festival. Better call Martijn as he is the counsel to a majority of music events and festivals in the Netherlands, from large to upcoming. He also advises the media on permits needed for the on-site recording of television and film productions, the public access of governmental information and subsidies. Martijn is a no-nonsense and hands-on advisor who serves our clients with dedication when it comes to their legal representation in relation to the government.

    Martijn is a lawyer since 2005 with more than 10 years experience on permits and administrative law proceedings for events, festivals and media. Martijn is working with a large network of specialized and trusted advisors on all imaginable aspects relevant for events and festivals and the application of permits related thereto.

    Memberships: the Dutch Society on Administrative Law (VAR)