We offer experienced, strategic legal advice to the copyright industries on the commercial exploitation, acquisition, licensing, transfer, management and protection of intellectual property rights and cultural products.
We provide services required by commercial and not-for-profit businesses, including incorporating and organizing, governance, negotiating and drafting of contracts and facilitation of business transactions.
We provide our clients in the creative industries with assistance in understanding how legislative reforms affect their interests, and help in submissions to government.
Westcott Law is a boutique commercial law practice, founded over two decades ago by Grace Westcott, LLB, LLM. We focus on clients in the cultural industries with a particular specialty in publishing and electronic media.
Intellectual property is at the heart of these industries, and we can provide the advice needed to navigate your business and creative issues. Our clients include corporations, not-for-profits, trade associations and individuals.
Focused on media and the cultural industries.
Legal Advice for your Creative Business.
Securing and exploiting creative properties requires a solid understanding of intellectual property and clear, well-drafted agreements, to ensure harmonious business relationships, to avoid misunderstandings and potential litigation, and, more fundamentally, to optimize your opportunities. Let us help you with your legal needs.
Grace has been acting for clients in the creative industries for well over twenty years. She has been particularly involved in Canadian publishing issues.
Grace has done extensive board work and stepped into the role of Executive Director of PEN Canada for a year, giving her first-hand knowledge of the legal requirements and operations of not-for-profits.
She holds an LLM from Columbia Law School and an LLB from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
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