Julia Mascini

Julia Mascini

Julia Mascini, lawyer at BUREN, specialises in intellectual property law and media and advertising law. She supports clients throughout the entire lifecycle of their activities – from strategic clearance and positioning advice to representation in complex cross-border infringement proceedings.

Julia has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating IP-driven agreements, including licensing, distribution, franchise and other cooperation and exploitation agreements. In addition, she is regularly involved in IP structuring projects and IP-intensive mergers and acquisitions. She frequently represents clients before the Advertising Code Committee and advises companies on the legal aspects of commercial communications.

A significant part of Julia’s practice focuses on clients in the arts sector, including museums, gallery owners, artists and investors. She advises on the careful and innovative exploitation of art, including the integration of new artistic and commercial formats. She also advises organisations on the implementation and regulation of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to intellectual property, liability and corporate governance issues.

Julia studied law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Keele University (UK), graduating in 2013. In 2020, she completed the leading specialist postgraduate programme in Intellectual Property and Procedural Law at the Mr S.K. Martens Academy in Amsterdam. She is a member of the Dutch Copyright Association (Vereniging voor Auteursrecht).

Julia worked at Valegis Advocaten, which joined forces with BUREN in 2026.

Selected experience:

• Representing manufacturers of military equipment based in Belgium and Germany in copyright and slavish imitation proceedings against two designers based in the United States.
• Assisting a renowned photographer in a dispute with a US auction house regarding provenance.
• Advising a museum on the legally sound integration of AI-generated artworks into its collection.
• Representing a chain of opticians in multiple proceedings before the Advertising Code Committee concerning national and local television and radio advertising campaigns.
• Assisting a German supermarket chain with a product clearance process in connection with its entry into the Dutch market.