Legal advice

Culture Hub Poland invites artists and music creators to take advantage of free legal advice. Dr. Aleksandra Sewerynik will be available to assist with complex matters. Consultations are held online or by phone every Wednesday from 15:00 PM to 17:00 PM. Legal advice does not include tax or social security advice.

The condition for using Culture Hub Poland Legal Advice is:

  1. Read the Regulations (available for download below)
  2. Sending the application to the e-mail address provided in the Regulations, in the week preceding the Duty for which the User wishes to register.
  3. The email with the application must include consent to the processing of personal data. This can be done by including the following statement in the email:

I consent to the processing of my personal data by Culture Hub Poland – Polish Culture Centre Foundation, for the purpose of recruiting for legal advice organised by the Foundation and subsequently providing free legal assistance.

GDPR Information

Pursuant to Article 13 paragraphs 1 and 2 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ EU L 119, 4.05.2016), hereinafter referred to as GDPR, we inform you that:

  1. The controller of personal data of persons participating in MExP Legal Advice who are natural persons is the Polish Music Export Foundation – Music Export Poland with its registered office in Warsaw (00-075) at 2 Senatorska Street, KRS 0000741987, NIP 1182181337, REGON 381380355.
  2. Personal data will be processed in connection with the recruitment process and the provision of free legal assistance. Personal data are processed upon the candidate's voluntary submission. Processing of personal data is necessary for the recruitment process and the provision of free legal assistance.
  3. The Foundation informs about the right to access personal data, to correct it, to delete it, to limit its processing and the right to object, as well as the right to transfer personal data if there are legal and factual grounds for doing so.
  4. Personal data may be disclosed to entities, including accounting and law firms, that provide services to the Foundation in this regard.
  5. Personal data will be processed by the Foundation for the period of limitation of any claims or expiration of legal obligations.
  6. The Foundation informs about the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority – the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.

Aleksandra Sewerynik – doctor of law, legal counsel, choral conductor

A graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, she is the author of "Copyright in Music" (Chopin University Press 2014), the editor and co-author of "Copyright in Cultural Institutions" (CH Beck 2019), the co-author of a commentary on copyright law (ed. A. Michalak, CH Beck 2019), and the creator of the blog prawmuzyki.pl. She teaches copyright law at the University of Music in Warsaw, at the IP Center, and in postgraduate studies at Collegium Civitas. She collaborates with the Hasik Rheims i Partnerzy law firm, which specializes in intellectual property law and reputation protection. She is the only expert in Poland preparing comprehensive, musical-legal comparative analyses of musical works in the context of plagiarism. She lectures and trains throughout Poland.

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