Jul 24, 2023 Celebrity Ownership of Football Clubs – Why fans should revel in football being Hollywood’s ‘flavour of the month' By Cameron Turner Zoë Stainton In 2020, Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney were announced as the owners of National League side Wrexham and they’re not the...
Jul 19, 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike: The strike rules, and the exceptions By Tom Ara Katherine Imp David Markman Cory Bettel Sergio Ingato +2 more... Show less As of July 14, 2023, the leadership of SAG-AFTRA (the actors’ guild) has enacted a strike of its 160,000 members, after failing to agree...
Apr 05, 2023 Key features of the draft Media Bill By Alex Lowe Akshay Ruparelia Key take-aways The draft Media Bill contains significant changes to the regulation of on-demand programme services (“ODPSs” - as defined...
Feb 27, 2023 Real World Meets Virtual World: Emergent Metaverse Use Cases and Attendant Legal Considerations By Tom Ara For the second year in a row, our Web3 team has published an insightful and informative article with Chambers and Partners on the Metaverse.
Feb 13, 2023 The audiovisual sector in Belgium has been subject to some major changes… And here is why By Emma Stockman Alexis Fierens Alexandra Levi Introduction In November 2018, the European Parliament adopted Directive 2018/1808 amending Directive 2010/13 concerning audiovisual...
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...
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...
Jul 05, 2022 Business Guide to Climate Disputes By Jeremy Sher Media, Sport & Entertainment (MSE) has traditionally been seen as a sector that is less impacted by climate change, with challenges...
Jun 21, 2022 The meteoric rise of the data centre: Key drivers behind global demand By Anthony Day Alanna Hasek Data centre dealmaking shot to new heights in 2021. The global boom has continued so far in 2022 and looks set to continue this year and...
Mar 09, 2022 GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey 2022 By Duncan Calow Data protection was once an overlooked area of the law, certainly in the media, sport and entertainment sector. Several years ago, during...
Mar 03, 2022 Towards new remuneration rights for authors and performers in the EU: contractual counterparts better watch out By Alexis Fierens Elisabeth Daem Emma Stockman Although Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market (“DSM Directive”) had to be implemented...
Mar 03, 2022 Hungarian Tax Rebate for Film Productions – Maximum amount of NFI’s deposit account increases to 44 billion HUF By Mónika Horváth Mariann Rajnai Elisabeth Daem Film productions may be eligible for a tax rebate equal to 30% of the direct film production expenses incurred relating to Hungarian...
Feb 23, 2022 Exploring the metaverse: What laws will apply? By Tom Ara Mark Radcliffe Michael Fluhr Katherine Imp +1 more... Show less During the last decade, virtual interactions have become an increasingly important part of life for consumers and businesses. This trend...
Jan 07, 2021 ‘Made in Europe?’ The obligation on minimum share and visibility of European works in the catalogues of on-demand audiovisual media service providers By Alexis Fierens Emma Stockman As many Member States are (belatedly) in the process of transposing EU Directive 2018/1808 amending the Audiovisual Media Services...
Aug 27, 2020 COVID-19: DLA Piper’s global industry guide to resuming production post-pandemic | Insights | DLA Piper Global Law Firm By Nick Fitzpatrick We are delighted to launch the second edition of our global industry guide, which has been updated to reflect recent changes in guidance...
Jul 22, 2020 Getting back to Film and TV Production By Tom Ara Although some jurisdictions are facing renewed challenges to reopening and restarting production, many jurisdictions are open again and...