Academic rigour, institutional practice.

Maria Helena Japiassu M. de Macedo is an international consultant and researcher working at the intersection of art law, cultural heritage, copyright and cultural rights. Her practice connects research with advisory work for artists and authors, museums and cultural institutions, galleries, publishers, foundations, universities, governments and international organisations — deliberately outside the model of a commercial law firm.

Her advisory work covers copyright in both dimensions: economic rights — ownership, assignment, licensing, royalties, editions and exploitation — and moral rights, attribution and integrity. It extends to estates and succession, catalogues and archives, institutional contracts, governance and cultural policy.

The practice is not litigation-driven: it is policy-oriented, contractual and intellectual, designed for long-term outcomes. Only a limited number of advisory mandates are accepted each year.