Publications | Articles
05 Jan 09 | Google Library Project Settlement Agreement
Publishing
Caroline Turner examines the implications of the Settlement of Google's Library Project for UK authors and publishers with a US copyright interest.
Intellectual Property | Litigation
Jo Sanders explores the interaction between the developing law of privacy and the law of contract.
03 Dec 08 | Public Benefit - a very public test
Charities
Possibly the greatest change in charity law is the imposition of a statutory public benefit test. Each year every charity will have to assess its contribution to the public benefit.
11 Nov 08 | Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Broadcasting | Intellectual Property | Digital Media
Tony Ballard discusses the future impact of the AVMS Directive on companies running corporate websites.
09 Oct 08 | Licensing Children in Entertainment
Film and Television | Theatre
Lindsey Dawson examines the current law on child entertainment licensing and considers why many people in the performance industry believe that the law is ready for a change.
Publishing | Commercial | Intellectual Property
Caroline Turner and Alys Lewis explain the extent to which dramatic and literary plots, themes and fictional characters are protected by the law of copyright and explore alternative ways in which rights holders can seek to protect their sequel rights.
30 Jul 08 | Power of the Bespoken Word
Fashion | Intellectual Property | Advertising
An ASA complaint regarding the use of the word "bespoke" was not upheld.
eCommerce / Technology | Intellectual Property
Cate Haywood explains the Government's new guidance note on social networking sites and how these sites should be operated in order to protect young people.
Music | Intellectual Property | Litigation
Lawrence Abramson and Tim Bamford discuss the impacts of the recent Court of Appeal decision in Brooker v Fisher on the music industry.
Sport
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has released a report criticising the European Commission's White Paper on Sport for its failure to express concrete views on the interrelation between EU law and the specificity of sport.
Advertising | Film and Television
Despite the scale of the advertising industry, advertising revenues in commercial television have taken a battering in recent years, as advertising spending migrates to the internet. It is time to rethink the funding of the commercial channels?
Music
Read Chloe Wright's article about the direct and indirect costs of the manufacture and distribution of records.
Broadcasting | Intellectual Property
Ben Bye and Tony Ballard on a number of cases related to pub landlords showing football matches via foreign satellite services.
Family
Linzi Bull analyses the outcomes of two cohabitation cases under current law and examines the same scenarios under the new law.
17 Jan 08 | Courting Controversy
Theatre
The result of the recent High Court action against Jerry Springer - the Opera suggests that from now on, theatre and television shows are unlikely to be successfully prosecuted under Britain's blasphemy laws.
Publishing | Intellectual Property
Mark Owen writes about the pending copyright expiry of Peter Pan.
Theatre
Lindsay Dawson explains why using positive quotes from theatre reviews in publicity material might soon become illegal.
26 Oct 07 | Practice Trends: Wealthy Clients
Private Client | Tax
Read Sarah Bridge's article on the proposed changes to the inheritance tax regime.
18 Oct 07 | Protecting the Concept in a Game: Nova v Mazooma
Intellectual Property
This copyright case reveals a gap in UK intellectual property law that in particular the software development industry is faced with.
Intellectual Property
Read Adam Mitton's comments on one of the copyright cases revolving around UK law protecting the expression of an idea, but not the idea itself.
18 Oct 07 | What is Trade Mark Use? Adam Opel AG v Autec AG
Intellectual Property
Lee Gage analyses whether the unauthorised use of a trade mark on a scale model amounts to trade mark infringement.
01 Oct 07 | Legal opinion on the Chinese Anti-Missile Test
Space Law
Tony Ballard comments on the legality of Chinese anti-missile tests.
24 Sep 07 | Rights in Digital Content
eCommerce / Technology | Intellectual Property
Mark Owen and Lucy Sladojevic examine the way digital content is protected by the law.
Intellectual Property | Sponsorship | Sport
Paul Groves and Ben Bye on sport, gambling advertisements and responsible gambling.
05 Jul 07 | Holy grail or a hornets' nest?
Charities
Taking a look at the Charity Commission's guidance publication CC37 (Charities and Public Service Delivery) Robert Porter analyses the issues that charities providing public services should consider.
Intellectual Property | Publishing
18 Jun 07 | Creative Business: Crafting the Value Narrative
eCommerce / Technology | Film and Television | Interactive Entertainment | Music | Publishing | Theatre | Intellectual Property | Digital Media
Professor Higson found that creative businesses don't get the level of investment they often deserve because businesses and investors lack a common language to help understand, explain and exploit value in a creative environment.
25 Apr 07 | Immigration Feature: Harbottle & Lewis comment on the recent changes to immigration rules
Employment | | Private Client
The In-House Lawyer ran an editorial feature about the on-going changes to the immigration rules. Nick Hobson comments on the new immigration rules and their impact on media and entertainment professionals.
Publishing | Litigation
Many publishers of fictional books assume that the classic phrase 'any similarities to actual persons, living or dead, or to any actual events, firms, institutions or other entities, is coincidental and unintentional' will protect them if a claim of defamation is made against them. This is not correct. The simple fact of the matter is that if members of the public associate a character in a book with a real-life person, even if that is not the intention, then they may be subject to a claim if an association can be made and defamatory allegations are published.
16 Mar 07 | A privacy law in all but name?
Publishing | Litigation
Recent decisions in the high court and court of Appeal reveal a judiciary keen to address the current gap in the law relating to the protection of private information. The decisions will no doubt send a shiver down the spine of tabloid newspapers, celebrity magazines as well as book publishers because they will have an impact on the type of material that can be published in the future.
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