Alexandre Bigot-Joly
Partner
Co-founding partner of INFLUXIO, Maître Alexandre BIGOT-JOLY has worked in business law firms and public institutions where he trained in media and communications law, intellectual property and criminal law.
Maître BIGOT-JOLY holds the French bar qualification (CAPA) and degrees in finance, real estate law and general private law. He also completed criminal law coursework at the Institut d'Études Judiciaires of Panthéon-Assas University.
Recognized as one of the leading figures in French music law, Maître BIGOT-JOLY advises independent labels and majors, music publishers, phonographic producers, managers and renowned recording artists on a daily basis.
He negotiates and drafts the structuring contracts of the industry (recording, publishing, licensing, distribution, 360 deals, executive producer agreements) and intervenes throughout the entire exploitation cycle of a musical work, from the studio to streaming platforms, including litigation before civil and criminal courts.
A pioneer of influencer law, Maître BIGOT-JOLY has been advising content creators, influencer agencies, advertisers and platforms for over a decade on securing their commercial operations, complying with the French law of June 9, 2023 on influencers, negotiating partnership agreements and managing disputes.
His expertise also covers the specific legal framework applicable to child influencers, a topic on which he is regularly interviewed by national media.
Maître BIGOT-JOLY lectures on music law, communications law and media law at several leading communications schools (CELSA, ISCOM, ESP).
Admitted to the Paris and Brussels Bars, Maître BIGOT-JOLY advises influencers, communications professionals, labels, artists and music producers, in both advisory and litigation matters before all courts. He also practices criminal law, particularly in proceedings related to cyberbullying, defamation and privacy violations.
Maître BIGOT-JOLY speaks French and English.
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Maître Alexandre Bigot-Joly is a co-founding partner of INFLUXIO, admitted to the Paris and Brussels Bars. He practises music law, influencer and creator economy law, media and communications law, and digital criminal law covering cyberbullying, defamation and privacy violations. He handles both contract advisory work and litigation before French civil and criminal courts.
He negotiates and drafts the structuring agreements of the recording and publishing industry: recording artist agreements, music publishing agreements, licensing, distribution, 360 deals, executive producer agreements, featuring agreements and catalogue assignments. His work covers the full exploitation cycle of a work, from the studio to streaming platforms, including royalty accounting disputes.
Yes. For more than ten years he has advised content creators, influencer agencies, advertisers and platforms.
He secures partnership and representation agreements, brings commercial operations into compliance with the French law of 9 June 2023 on commercial influence and with consumer protection rules on misleading commercial practices, and defends clients during investigations by the French consumer authority and before the courts.
Yes, this is one of his recognised areas of practice.
He advises families, agencies and advertisers on the protective regime applicable to minors exposed online, including the French law of 19 October 2020 on the commercial exploitation of the image of children under sixteen, the escrow of earnings with the Caisse des dépôts, prior administrative authorisation and the right to erasure of published content.
Yes. He initiates urgent remedies: formal notice to the author or platform, notification under the Digital Services Act, emergency civil proceedings or ex parte applications for removal and identification of anonymous authors, and criminal complaints. Under French law, defamation claims are time barred three months after publication, so evidence must be secured and action taken very quickly.
Maître Bigot-Joly works in French and English from INFLUXIO's Paris and Brussels offices. He appears before all French civil and criminal courts and handles cross-border matters involving platforms and companies established outside France.
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