Senior Counsel Anti-piracy Emea

Disney Disney · Media · London, United Kingdom

This role focuses on combating piracy of digital content and physical products in EMEA by managing legal issues, antipiracy, and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Responsibilities include managing physical anti-piracy programs, online enforcement initiatives, counseling internal clients on IP law, and staying current with the legal and technology landscape.

What you'd actually do

  1. Managing physical anti-piracy programmes, including criminal, administrative, and civil legal procedures to address counterfeiting online and on ground as well as other misuses of IP; supervision and management of outside counsel and investigators in multiple countries; and ensuring an integrated approach to worldwide IP and enforcement issues while serving local needs.
  2. Managing online VOD and live enforcement initiatives across multiple EMEA markets, including overseeing notice and takedown programmes, supervising civil litigation and criminal prosecutions against piracy services and their infrastructure, directing the work of outside counsel, and collaborating with co-litigants.
  3. Counselling internal clients on copyright and trademark law, including the company’s enforcement strategies, and providing ongoing support by advising on both individual cases and broader programme initiatives.
  4. Keeping current with the legal, policy, and technology landscape to ensure compliance and best-in-class solutions.
  5. Demonstrating diplomacy, strategic decision-making, meticulous attention to detail, and organisational and time-management skills, consistently delivering impactful results across multiple high-priority, high-volume projects.

Skills

Required

  • Intellectual property litigation
  • Antipiracy matters
  • Licensing
  • Copyright law
  • Trademark law
  • Enforcement of intellectual property rights
  • Internet investigations
  • International intellectual property frameworks
  • Law degree

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of international intellectual property frameworks
  • IP enforcement by border forces and law enforcement agencies

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum of 7 years Post-qualification Experience
  • intellectual property litigation/antipiracy matters
  • laws governing the enforcement of intellectual property rights
  • copyright, trademark
  • legal and technological issues relating to enforcement and internet investigations