Licensing & Rights Management

Here is the breakdown. We manage licensing and rights clearance for shoots in Belgium, securing the permissions a project needs for music, archive footage, artwork, trademarks and underlying literary material. Our team works within EU copyright law as applied in Belgium, liaising with collecting societies and rights holders, negotiating usage terms and areas, and logging clearances so the chain of title holds up.

Here is how that works. Because shoots funded through the Belgian Tax Shelter and supported by the VAF, Screen Flanders, Wallimage or screen.brussels must show clean rights to draw down their funding, we keep clearance records organised and audit-ready. We handle agreements in French and Dutch as the production needs, reflecting Belgium's federal language structure, and price licensing costs in euros with VAT at 21%.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Rights work in Belgium also covers the visible setting of a shoot. Filming Art Nouveau build style, the work of named designers such as Victor Horta, modern artworks or branded settings can raise clearance questions, and covered UNESCO sites — the Grand-Place, the historic centre of Bruges, Horta's Major Town Houses — may carry their own usage conditions alongside a filming permit. Data captured in the course of production falls under GDPR and the oversight of the Belgian data-protection authority, the APD/GBA. This we account for in releases and clearances. We advise shoots on where rights exposure sits, secure the licences and waivers needed for the intended distribution, and make sure that everything from a Belgian music cue to an on-screen logo is well cleared before delivery.