The conference is aimed at media, entertainment and
intellectual property lawyers, newspaper/ magazine editorial personnel and
journalists, radio/ television broadcasters and presenters and all other
executives who work in the media, entertainment, intellectual property or
internet field. The objective of the conference is to examine in detail the
most important and topical legal issues which are of concern to those with
an interest in media, entertainment and intellectual property law.
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Developments In Copyright And Like Rights
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Stephen Bate - 5RB
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The presentation will deal with the following:
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-The Da Vinci Code litigation; copyright, facts and invention.
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-Fisher v Booker. Musical copyright revisited.
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-A round up of litigation relating to internet use.
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-Other cases, developments and issues.
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Format Rights - Format Wrongs - How To Protect Your
Format
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Jonathan Coad - Swan Turton
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The format trade is now worth well over £2 billion
per annum. The American Idol format alone was recently valued at $ 2.5
billion. The law in this area is, however, far from certain. Despite this,
vast sums of money change hands for this species of intellectual property
for which there is no statutory recognition anywhere in the world. How
then do you give yourself the best chance of protecting your format as a
copyright work? What do you do if you find that you are developing a
format which is too close to another format for comfort? What do you do
about copycats in your own territory or overseas? This seminar answers
those questions.
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Intellectual Property: Reforms, Reports, Reviews
.... And Road Maps
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Jonathan Cornthwaite - Wedlake Bell
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Recent months have seen a frenzy of high-profile IP
strategy papers, reform proposals, reviews and "road-maps"
issued by both governments and non-governmental organisations that have
pushed IP law even further up the international agenda. In this
presentation we shall be casting an eye over them, and picking out from
them a number of issues of practical importance to businesses that own or
use intellectual property.
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"Maintaining The Status Quo". Record
Royalties - Protecting The Right To Your Share
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Robert Deacon - 11 Stone Buildings
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Probably the most important and detailed clause in a
recording agreement is the royalty payment clause. Occasionally an
artist/band will discover several years down the line that he/they have
not been paid all the record royalties which were due to him/them. This
presentation will examine how to pursue a claim for unpaid record
royalties and will look at inter alia: Recoupment of advances paid by the
record company.
- Partnership rights amongst the band members. The liability to
account on the part of the record company and/or the continuing band
members who have got hold of the money.
- Limitation especially in relation to
(i) whether those holding the monies are trustees and
(ii) concealment (not letting on that the advances have been
recouped and that the royalty flow is beginning to flow again).
- Lancaster v Handel (the Status Quo case) and the judgment in the
case which is expected will be handed down in September.
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Hot Topics in Advertising Law
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Elizabeth Mehdevy - Hextalls LLP
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This presentation will deal with the following:
- Comparative Advertising and the new Comparative Advertising
Directive.
- Pitfalls to be wary of
- trademarks & passing off.
- Implication of the Gambling Act 2005 on prize promotions.
- London Olympic & Paralympic Games Act 2005.
- Ambush marketing.
- Mobile marketing.
- Applying existing legislation to new media.
- Data protection issues.
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Privacy Intrusion, Harassment And Resort To
Subterfuge - The Current State Of Play In Press Regulation
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Professor Robert Pinker - International Consultant at the UK Press
Complaints Commission
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Over the past year, the Courts and the PCC have dealt
with a number of high profile actions and complaints about privacy
intrusion and other related issues. Some of the legal judgements have
potentially significant implications for the future development of press
self-regulation in the United Kingdom. These issues will be explored in
this presentation.
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Where Football, Law And The Media Collide - A Look
At Recent Legal Developments
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Simon Thorp - Onside Law LLP
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This presentation will deal with the following:
- Breaking BSKYB's monopoly
- The BSKYB/Setanta deal with the Premier League.
- The BSKYB case against publicans who use foreign decoders for the
transmission of Premiership matches.
- The David Beckham/LA Galaxy deal - a look at the media rights
involved.
- Third party ownership of players and their media rights.
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