JULES MUNRO
Partner
jmunro@simpsons.com.au
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Jules is a partner at Simpsons with over 15 years experience advising clients in the music, film & TV industries. He is recommended in the legal review publication Legal 500 in intellectual property.
He is the long-serving President of Music New South Wales, a non-profit association set up to represent, promote and develop the contemporary music industry in New South Wales, Australia. (See the website www.musicnsw.com).
His music clients include national and international music publishers, record labels, managers, song writers and performers. Beyond music, Jules draws clients from the film, television and media industries, as well as clients involved in information technology and intellectual property.
He provides entertainment industry clients with commercially pragmatic advice, ranging from contract negotiation and drafting to licensing, strategic business and deal structures and litigation. He is an experienced film finance lawyer in both feature, TV and documentary productions. A recent credit includes the Australian feature film Beneath Hill 60.
He is also an active volunteer lawyer with the Arts Law Centre of Australia, where he provides free legal advice to the members of the Centre in relation to the arts and entertainment industries. He is currently revising the latest edition of “Music Business: A Musician’s Guide in the Australian Music Industry”.
Jules is also an experienced musician in his own right. His practical and personal experience of the music industry gives him a valuable insight into the concerns of clients in that sector.
He regularly gives addresses to various bodies on music industry matters, both as a keynote speaker and as a panel member.
He is a guest lecturer in Entertainment Law at the Southern Cross University, the Australian Institute of Music and the University of Western Sydney.
Jules is a member of the Copyright Society of Australia and a member of the Australasian Performing Right Association.
Sample Papers and Speeches
Brand Integration In On-Line Video Games – delivered at a LESANZ seminar Virtual Property – IP in Online Gaming, July 2006.
The Substantial Reproduction (By the Authors of Phenomenally Successful Pot Boilers…) of Literary Works – delivered at the College of Law Entertainment Law Update Seminar (March 2006).