Alejandro Díaz

Throughout his career, he has advised companies in the fields of publishing, music, performing arts, podcasts, and particularly, the audiovisual industry. He is an expert in legal support during the production, financing and exploitation process of content and entertainment programs, including necessary contracting, review of the chain of title (chain of title), rights clearance, and structuring funding and marketing pathways.

Alejandro is also specialized in the application and management of public funding for the audiovisual sector and in the administrative procedures related to production, such as the nationality of the work, international co-productions, age ratings and cost recognition.

He combines his professional practice with teaching in postgraduate programs on intellectual property at institutions such as the Higher Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE) and the International University of Valencia (VIU). Since 2022, he has been the Deputy Secretary of the State Association of Cinema (AECINE).

Published Works

• The Draft Law on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture: a new opportunity for cinemas? – Legal Current Affairs Aranzadi (2023)
• Memento Law of New Technologies 2022–2023, chapter Audiovisual Market: new media and its regulation, Lefebvre (2022)
• “Watch out: escape rooms in the style of Prison Break can get you into legal trouble,” El Confidencial (2021)
• “Movie Lawyers: how legal advice works in the film industry,” Expansión (2021)
• “Product Placement: including without including, showing without showing and mentioning without mentioning,” Audiovisual Production (2019)
• “Video games: like (legal) life itself,” Expansión (2019)
• “An investment… in cinema,” Cinco Días – El País (2019)
• “Intellectual property with little flavor,” Cinco Días – El País (2019)
• “Author’s cuisine…, Author's rights?” El Economista (2018).

Admission

• Registered with the Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid (2015)
• Member of the Spanish Association of Entertainment Law (DENAE) since 2015

Academic Background

• Bachelor's Degree in Law, Rey Juan Carlos I University (2014)
• Double Master's in Access to the Lawyer Profession and Industrial Property and New Technologies, Autonomous University of Madrid (2015)