Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Our services

• Software and technology contracts. Development, maintenance and support agreements, licensing models, cloud and subscription-based service agreements, systems-integration projects, and technology-transfer and source-code escrow arrangements.
• Personal-data protection. Drawing up the record of processing activities, building privacy notices and explicit-consent structures, mechanisms for transfers abroad, data-breach notifications, representation in complaints and examinations before the Personal Data Protection Authority, and structures that require dual compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.
• Information security and outsourcing. Regulating processor relationships by contract, compliance with sectoral information-systems legislation, and the legal framework of business-continuity and incident-response processes.
• E-commerce and digital platforms. Compliance with electronic-commerce legislation, obligations of intermediary service providers, regulating platform-seller relationships, distance-sales and consumer legislation, and digital-marketing and commercial electronic-message practice.
• Telecommunications. Authorisation and licensing, compliance with the rules of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, infrastructure sharing and network access, and the legislation on subscriber relationships.
• Media and content. Compliance with broadcasting legislation, rules on online content services, content-removal and access-blocking processes, applications concerning personality rights, and advertising legislation and Advertising Board proceedings.
• Artificial intelligence and new technologies. Title in the development and use of artificial-intelligence systems, the relationship between training data and copyright, the allocation of liability, and the effects of European Union rules as they reach Turkish companies; advice on financial technology, payment services and digital assets.
• The competition-law intersection. Assessing licence and distribution agreements under competition law, reviews concerning data access and platform power, and standard-essential patents and licensing terms.

How we work

On matters that require portfolio management, we follow the calendars for registration, renewal and proof of use, and we manage the risk of lost deadlines through the firm’s internal monitoring system.

You may contact our team about the management of your intellectual-property portfolio, your technology contracts and your data-protection compliance.