‘Compensation’ versus ‘punishment’ in Polish copyright – a major court ruling...
Copyright enforcement laws specify the remedies that rights holders can demand in cases of copyright infringement. These include demands to cease the infringement, to...
What’s Trending in Media and Sport: Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality - or AR - has developed at a rapid rate over the last 5 years. In the video below, Richard and Caroline...
Tessellate
To OTT or not to OTT? That is the (currently unanswerable)...
The rapid uptake of OTT services has revolutionised the way that content owners and producers deliver content to audiences. Â We are now at a...
Netflix and the rush towards producing original content
Netflix, for example, intends on producing 1,000 hours of original programming in 2017, a rise from the 600 hours they produced in 2016 and...
Budget Booster – How the UK Government’s Autumn Budget is set...
The Digital Economy
Let’s start with the most notable update, taxation on the digital economy. The digital economy broadly relates to any business that...
Broadcasting & OTT Podcast, part 1: the piracy issue & a...
We hope you enjoy the first podcast below, which focuses on issues facing broadcasting, content, media and OTT businesses.
The team delve into the impact...
Translation please: The Audiovisual Media Services Directive to European Convention on...
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...
What’s Trending in Media and Sport
Change is constant within the media, entertainment and sport industries, and this process has only been accelerated by the influence of digital technologies. These...
Fair Compensation for Dutch Bestselling Authors
The bestseller-clause
On July 1st, 2015, the Copyright Contract Act entered into force in the Netherlands. This constituted important changes in Dutch copyright contract law....
