Experience

Lawyer specialized in intellectual property, art law and cultural industries.

Natalia has worked for seven years in multinationals in the field of culture and entertainment (Sony Music, Secuoya Studios, among others) and in national and international law firms (Baker McKenzie, Andersen, among others), in their intellectual property and culture teams, advising in the music, audiovisual, literary, technologic and performing arts industries, from a legal and business point of view. 

She has also worked in Paris, at the Permanent Representation of Spain to UNESCO, where she established contact with cultural diplomacy at the highest level, Parisian art galleries and the international conventions that regulate cultural and artistic heritage, widely considered.

Education

  • Master’s Degree in Art History, at UDIMA.
  • Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property and New Technologies,  at UNIR.
  • Master’s Degree in Access to the Bar, at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Double Degree in Law and Business Administration, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE.
     

Teaching

  • Degree in Music & Master in Business Management of the Music Industry, at UNIR (currently).
  • Master in Cultural Management, Theatre, Music and Dance, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • Master in Representation and Management of Artists and Athletes, at ISDE Law & Business School.
  • Master in Executive Production of Audiovisual Content, at The Core Entertainment School.

Publications

  • Founder of Intangible Matters, legal blog specializing in intellectual property, creative industries & technology.
  • Winner of the second prize of the IX Contest of Legal Articles on entertainment law and information technologies of DENAE (2022), for the article: ‘Conceptual art and AI: opposite or twinned realities?’.
  • Winner of the Sections Award 2023 (Culture Section) of the Madrid Bar Association, fot the article ‘Law as a weapon against the illicit trafficking of cultural property and the restitution of works of art to their legitimate owners’.
  • ‘UNESCO speaks out: for a trustworthy, free and democratic Internet, away from hate speech and misinformation’. In: Lvcentinvs (legal blog specialized in Intellectual Property).
  • ‘The consequences that woke puritanism is having on art: a legal approach from Intellectual Property and constitutional rights perspectives’. In: Lvcentinvs.
  • ‘When reality protects fiction: reflection and jurisprudential journey around the protection of fictional characters by copyright’. In: Intellectual and Industrial Property Yearbook 2023. Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch.
  • Master Thesis with honors, published in the university’s bibliograpchic repository (UNIR) ‘Artificial Intelligence and Copyright. Analysis and challenges for the continental system and the copyright system’.
     

Affiliations

  • Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
  • Spanish Entertainment Law Association (DENAE).
  • Art Law Association (ADA).
  • Literary and Artistic Association for the Defense of Copyright (ALADDA).

Languages

English and French

Natalia Tamames

Senior Associate
Art and Cultural Heritage

Natalia Tamames

Senior Associate
Art and Cultural Heritage

Experience

Lawyer specialized in intellectual property, art law and cultural industries.

Natalia has worked for seven years in multinationals in the field of culture and entertainment (Sony Music, Secuoya Studios, among others) and in national and international law firms (Baker McKenzie, Andersen, among others), in their intellectual property and culture teams, advising in the music, audiovisual, literary, technologic and performing arts industries, from a legal and business point of view. 

She has also worked in Paris, at the Permanent Representation of Spain to UNESCO, where she established contact with cultural diplomacy at the highest level, Parisian art galleries and the international conventions that regulate cultural and artistic heritage, widely considered.

Education

  • Master’s Degree in Art History, at UDIMA.
  • Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property and New Technologies,  at UNIR.
  • Master’s Degree in Access to the Bar, at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Double Degree in Law and Business Administration, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE.
     

Teaching

  • Degree in Music & Master in Business Management of the Music Industry, at UNIR (currently).
  • Master in Cultural Management, Theatre, Music and Dance, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • Master in Representation and Management of Artists and Athletes, at ISDE Law & Business School.
  • Master in Executive Production of Audiovisual Content, at The Core Entertainment School.

Publications

  • Founder of Intangible Matters, legal blog specializing in intellectual property, creative industries & technology.
  • Winner of the second prize of the IX Contest of Legal Articles on entertainment law and information technologies of DENAE (2022), for the article: ‘Conceptual art and AI: opposite or twinned realities?’.
  • Winner of the Sections Award 2023 (Culture Section) of the Madrid Bar Association, fot the article ‘Law as a weapon against the illicit trafficking of cultural property and the restitution of works of art to their legitimate owners’.
  • ‘UNESCO speaks out: for a trustworthy, free and democratic Internet, away from hate speech and misinformation’. In: Lvcentinvs (legal blog specialized in Intellectual Property).
  • ‘The consequences that woke puritanism is having on art: a legal approach from Intellectual Property and constitutional rights perspectives’. In: Lvcentinvs.
  • ‘When reality protects fiction: reflection and jurisprudential journey around the protection of fictional characters by copyright’. In: Intellectual and Industrial Property Yearbook 2023. Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch.
  • Master Thesis with honors, published in the university’s bibliograpchic repository (UNIR) ‘Artificial Intelligence and Copyright. Analysis and challenges for the continental system and the copyright system’.
     

Affiliations

  • Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
  • Spanish Entertainment Law Association (DENAE).
  • Art Law Association (ADA).
  • Literary and Artistic Association for the Defense of Copyright (ALADDA).

Languages

English and French