Jan 31, 2023 Solicitors Regulation Authority investigates 40 suspected ‘SLAPPs’ By Elizabeth Bingham Duncan Calow The SRA is investigating 40 suspected cases of ‘SLAPPs’ – Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation – brought to its attention...
Jan 30, 2023 Online Safety Bill arrives at the House of Lords By Ally Clark Duncan Calow On 25 January 2023, the Communications and Digital Committee held a one-off session, with Paul Scully the Minister for Tech and Digital...
Jan 25, 2023 The Playlist: #1 "Power" By Ally Clark Kanye West’s “Power” at the centre of a High Court dispute over royalties payable on the sample of King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid...
Jan 25, 2023 IP OWNERSHIP – Part 2 – employee generated IP – some useful factors for employers to consider By Claire Sng Elizabeth Bingham On Friday 23 December 2022, the UK Patents Court handed down an early Christmas present: a 651 paragraph judgment on the topic of IP...
Jan 23, 2023 What do John Cage, Zippy and Mr Humphries have in common? By Alex Lowe Ally Clark Sam Churney Here's wishing you a belated Happy New Year from three of DLA Piper’s copyright enthusiasts. As many readers of this blog will know, 1...
Jan 16, 2023 Further amendments to the Online Safety Bill not ruled out: Parliament battling over the scope and detail of the Online Safety Bill By Ally Clark Duncan Calow It has been reported that forty-eight Conservative MP’s (including former Conservative Party leader, Sir Ian Duncan Smith, and former...
Jan 09, 2023 The return of the Online Safety Bill By Ally Clark Duncan Calow The draft Online Safety Bill (the Bill), the Government’s flagship proposal for legislation regulating online content (…originally...
Dec 23, 2022 Hare-brained scheme: Why the AI tortoises will inevitably lose the race… By Gareth Stokes “Slow and steady wins the race.” All of us will have heard a multitude of variations on Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare. The...
Nov 29, 2022 All I want for Christmas is the exclusive right to use... By Alex Lowe Hang on, those aren’t the lyrics. Correct. It’s not even December, but I’d assumed people would be sick of hearing the real ones by now...
Nov 15, 2022 Media, Sport and Entertainment Summit - On demand By Sarah Jayne Scott We held our Media, Sport and Entertainment Summit virtually across a number of dates in September and October. Topics in the programme...
Nov 14, 2022 Key topics and takeaways from the 2022 Masters of Advertising Law conference in Florida By Claire Sng I share my thoughts on key themes from the 2022 Masters of Advertising Law Conference in Florida; picking up on advertising issues...
Nov 03, 2022 No more SLAPPs perhaps? By Duncan Calow In a year of Covid, climate change and conflict in Ukraine, the recent celebrity court battles of Vardy v Rooney and Depp v Heard in the...
Oct 27, 2022 Women in Sport: In conversation with Lioness, Millie Bright By Sarah Jayne Scott Fresh from her EURO 2022 win, professional footballer and England Lioness Millie Bright will join us on Thursday 1 December at 6pm for an...
Oct 13, 2022 Stand-alone class action against Facebook and Google By Chantal Encavey Hamilton v Meta Platforms, Inc [2022] FCA 681, Cheeseman J There has been quiet but significant progress in the David and Goliath battle...
Oct 10, 2022 Government responds to DCMS report on influencer culture By Claire Sng Joshua Tray The Government has now published its response to the DCMS’s report on influencer culture: “Lights, camera, inaction?”, that was published...
Sep 22, 2022 Square peg, four-dimensional hole: Applying existing regulatory frameworks to the Metaverse By Sarah Jayne Scott The metaverse is not “new”, but there is no denying it’s increasingly becoming a focal point of media, sports and entertainment...