Turkey: Media & Entertainment Law

Athletes are increasingly protecting their goal celebrations and personal brands through intellectual property rights, transforming spontaneous gestures into valuable commercial assets.

A proposed amendment to Turkish Law No. 5651 introduces comprehensive compliance obligations for digital gaming platforms, social media providers, and game distributors. The new regulatory framework mandates age verification systems, parental control tools, content classification by age ratings, and risk assessment reporting to the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK), with significant administrative penalties for non-compliance.

Turkey has submitted a new bill to parliament that would require large digital platforms to pay royalties to media organizations for using their news content. The legislation establishes a dispute resolution mechanism and imposes significant penalties on platforms that fail to comply, with administrative fines potentially reaching up to 10% of annual digital service revenue generated in Turkey.

The 2024 Annual Report ("Report"), issued by the Personal Data Protection Authority ("Authority"), outlines the regulatory activities of the Authority under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data ("DP Law"), based on statistical data

In Türkiye, the advertising, promotion, and similar activities related to alcoholic beverages are prohibited across all communication channels, including television...

Ülkemizde alkollü içeceklerin reklam, tanıtım ve benzeri faaliyetleri televizyon, radyo, sinema, basılı medya ve dijital platformlar dahil olmak üzere tüm iletişim

Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı tarafından hazırlanan Özel Teknelerin Donatımı ve Özel Tekneleri Kullanacak Kişilerin Yeterlikleri Hakkında Yönetmelik, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlanarak yürürlüğe girdi.

Dünyanın en büyük pazar payına sahip eğlence sektörlerinden biri olan dijital oyunlar neden fikri mülkiyet hukuku alanında hala ayrı bir eser kategorisinde kendisine yer bulamaz?

Why digital games, which is one of the entertainment industries with the largest market share in the world, still cannot find a place for itself in a separate category of works in the field of intellectual property law?