Digital Media Law
"Provides topical news and commentary on legal issues impacting the digital media sector. Most creative output in the media and entertainment industries finds its way, sooner or later, onto the new distribution pathways that digital technologies provide. Whether it is music, drama, sport, games, gambling, virtual worlds, user generated content or otherwise, similar legal issues arise."
Author: Tony Ballard is a partner and Cate Haywood is a solicitor at Harbottle & Lewis in London.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Media & Communications Law • International • Europe • United Kingdom • Partner
Recent Posts from Digital Media Law
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Net neutrality is to be imposed on US ISPs under FCC proposals. Is there a judicial trend towards similar principles being imposed in Europe?
Net neutrality in the US Last Monday (21 September), the new Chairman of the FCC announced proposals for applying principles of non-discrimination and transparency to companies that control access to the internet. Describing the…
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When are search engines liable?
Blog Author: Cate Haywood Metropolitan International Schools Ltd v (1) Designtechnica Corporation (2) Google UK Ltd & (3) Google Inc [2009] EWHC 1765 (QB) The High Court has set aside an Order to serve Google…
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Liability of apps providers
Blog Author: Mark Owen Content is “sold” for the Kindle eBook reader over a private Amazon network, Whispernet. This is only available in the US. Publishers upload content to the network which Amazon then makes…
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Project Canvas – what will be on the new platform and on what terms?
Blog Author: Tony Ballard What is Project Canvas exactly? And on what terms do content providers have access to it? Prompted by complaints from some parts of the industry, the BBC Trust has now (23…
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Remedies for illicit peer-to-peer file sharing: a conflict of fundamental rights
Blog Author: Tony Ballard Nobody, least of all the government, expects that dealing with illegal peer to peer file sharing will be easy. Digital Britain sensibly recognises that convenient access to legal content is as…
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Is an Age Verification Law on the Cards?
Blog Author: Mark Owen The purchase of many types of goods and services requires the purchaser to be of a particular age, usually 18 or over. The list of items includes many which are regularly…
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The Pirate Bay
Blog Author: Tony Ballard It was unfortunate for the team of individuals who brought the Pirate Bay website to the world that they were in Sweden. As they have discovered to their cost, copyright infringement…
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Digital Rights Agency – A Workable Solution or Just a Hope?
Blog author: Nicolas Murfett The problem of illegal file sharing has been around since the dawn of the internet. Traditionally the problem was limited to the select few with the technological resources to be able…
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The BBC – The Solution to Universal Connectivity?
Blog author: Tony Ballard The interim Digital Britain report proposes a digital “Universal Service Commitment” (USC) in broadband by 2012. This is not quite the same kind of thing as the universal service obligation (USO),…
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Project Canvas - IPTV in the Living Room
Blog author: Tony Ballard In an article in the Financial Times in early January this year, Mark Thompson wrote that the debates last year on the future of public service television had missed the most…