7/1/2025 11:41:22 AM The State of the Nation – Ofcom Consults on Impartiality in News By Henry Sealy Andrew Cox Richard McMorris In February the High Court sided with GB News in a judicial review, brought by the challenger broadcaster following decisions from Ofcom...
12/6/2024 4:13:42 PM Modernising the UK Media Mergers Regime By Andrew Cox Saskia King Alienor Troletti The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a consultation into proposed changes to the media mergers regime. These...
2/27/2024 9:50:00 AM ICO’s Press Play: navigating journalism and data protection By Cat Hughes Laura Gray After several drafts and amendments, on February 1 2024, the ICO’s Data Protection and Journalism Code of Practice has finally been...
7/12/2023 9:16:00 PM Better data from metadata in the UK music industry? A look behind the streams By Naji Tilley On 31 May 2023, the UK Intellectual Property office (UK IPO) published the “UK Industry Agreement on Music Streaming Metadata”. The...
6/14/2023 8:10:00 AM Hay v Cresswell: public interest defence succeeds for the first time in a #MeToo case By Tom Moore A sexual assault victim has successfully defended a libel claim brought by the perpetrator, relying both on the defence of truth and,...
6/13/2023 8:22:00 AM Hand Built by Robots: AI-generated music is on the rise By Dan Breen Toby Bond The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is causing concern among various music industry stakeholders. In the...
6/8/2023 8:53:00 AM Plot twist: Rebekah Vardy registers trade mark ”WAGATHA CHRISTIE” after losing libel case By Freddie Eastwell The phrase “Wagatha Christie”, claimed to have been coined by Dan Atkinson in a viral tweet sent back in 2019, has been a buzzword in the...
5/11/2023 1:58:00 PM Misuse of private information: Stoute v News Group Newspapers gives a refresh on the law around photographs taken in public places By Laura Gray Laura Gray looks at key aspects of the judgment and its consideration of a return date and expectations of privacy. Factual Background At...
1/6/2023 9:58:00 AM A fake interview with a politician does not violate her personal rights; an update from the German Regional Court By Roman Brtka, LL.M. The Regional Court of Hamburg addressed the question in August last year as to whether a fake interview with a German politician violates...
5/26/2022 4:48:00 PM Serious harm considered again in Newman v Whittington [2022] NSWSC 249 By Julie Cheeseman In February 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales became the first Australian superior Court to consider the Australian ‘serious...
11/30/2021 4:48:00 PM Better late than never: Spain transposes Directives on copyright and related rights By David Fuentes In order to comply with the transposition obligation – yet with 5 months of delay and with a result that seems to be (at least)...
6/30/2021 9:20:00 PM New Copyright Legislation in the EU – Towards a New Media and Tech Landscape? By MediaWrites Editorial 7 June 2021 was the date by which Member States were required to implement the EU’s DSM Directive, an ambitious effort aimed at...
2/24/2021 7:40:00 PM Public Consultation on draft Singapore Copyright Bill (Ends 1 April 2021) By Pin-Ping Oh Alban Kang Alban Kang and Pin-Ping Oh explain the key proposals and implications on the latest public consultation on the draft Singapore Copyright...
12/16/2020 8:32:00 PM Aven & Others v Orbis: Defamation meets Data Protection By Bryony Hurst Bryony Hurst and Theo Rees-Bidder from our Dispute Resolution team look back at this summer’s judgment on the novel data protection...
12/16/2020 8:29:00 PM European Commission publishes sweeping new rulebook for online platforms offering services in Europe By Francine Cunningham In a bid to achieve "technological sovereignty", the European Commission has unveiled a wide-ranging package of proposals that will...
12/4/2020 8:55:00 PM Newsflash: Update on Epic Games’ dispute with Apple By Conor Hume Conor Hume provides an update on the dispute (previously reported for MediaWrites) between Epic Games, publishers of the game Fortnite,...