Broadcasting

Germany is one of the largest TV markets in the world – and a rather peculiar one in some respects. Foreign businesses considering whether...

  Convention The Convention is founded on broadly the same country of origin principle as that which went on to be enshrined in the Television Without...

Head of Bird & Bird's international Media, Entertainment and Sport sector, Phil Sherrell, discusses the Digital Single Market and the implications for media and technology companies.

Protecting the Crown Jewels For many companies in Asia Pacific buying sports rights from rights holders such as the FA Premier League ("FAPL"), those rights...

So what can be ‘glee’ned from the series of rulings in the long-running trade mark and passing off dispute between Comic Enterprises and Twentieth...

Copyright enforcement laws specify the remedies that rights holders can demand in cases of copyright infringement. These include demands to cease the infringement, to...

The state of play In the Murphy pub landlady case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that EU free movement rules...

When launching its Digital Marketing Strategy in May 2015, the Commission highlighted that one of the major aims of the strategy would be to...

In response to the fast changing audiovisual media landscape, particularly the convergence of traditional, linear TV and content distributed via over-the-top (OTT) services (that...