Licensing & Rights Management

Here is the breakdown. We manage licensing and rights clearance for shoots filming in Turkey, making sure each element that looks on screen is well cleared for the intended distribution. Our team handles location and venue licensing, music and archive clearances, artwork and trademark rights, and the talent releases that secure on-camera contributors. We work with Turkish rights holders, collecting societies and site administrations to obtain the needed permissions, document the terms, and assemble a complete clearance file so the production's chain of title is sound. Where footage is destined for broadcast or streaming across many areas, we make sure the scope of each licence matches the actual distribution plan.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Turkey's rights environment has both set up structures and distinctive features. Licensing at covered and iconic sites — museums, the Bosphorus, archaeological zones such as Ephesus and the Historic Areas of Istanbul — is administered alongside the filming permits issued through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, so access and image rights are often handled together. Personal-data aspects of releases must reflect the KVKK, the Personal Data Protection Law and its authority. The country's huge 'dizi' television-series industry — the country is the world's second-largest TV-series exporter — has built sophisticated music, archive and dubbing rights practice that global shoots can draw on. We bring all of this together so a Turkey shoot delivers fully cleared, distributable footage.