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Ofcom's Roadmap For The Online Safety Act 2023: What's Next?

Ofcom has unveiled its latest timetable for rolling out the remaining phases of the Online Safety Act 2023, setting out when to expect new codes, guidance, statutory reports, and advice for the Secretary of State.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Lewis Silkin

High Court Dismisses High-profile Libel Claim, Finding That Defences Of Truth And Public Interest Are Established

The decision clarifies that in assessing a publisher's reasonable belief for the public interest defence, the court will consider the publisher's general...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Football Governance Act Becomes Law In Historic Moment For English Football

Following Royal Assent on 21 July 2025, the Football Governance Act ushers in the statutory regulation of men's elite football in England. The implementation of the Independent Football Regulator...

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Addleshaw Goddard

Media Supergrowers – AI, Adjacency, And Audience Expansion

In a media and entertainment landscape reshaped by digital disruption, ever-changing consumer tastes, and evolving business requirements, a select group of companies isn't just surviving...

United Kingdom Media & IT

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AlixPartners

Preventing Fake Reviews: What Are "Reasonable And Proportionate" Steps?

United Kingdom Consumer

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Travers Smith LLP

Court Of Appeal Overturns Decision To Strike Out The Defendant's Defence Of Public Interest In Libel Proceedings Brought By TV Presenter Rachel Riley

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Wiggin

UK refuses to extradite Assange to the US, for now

United Kingdom Litigation

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Coronavirus: Do Brands Have Any Recourse If The Media Wrongly Alleges They Have Furloughed Staff?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Withers LLP

Commission Accepts e-book Commitments From Amazon

European Union Anti-trust

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Pinsent Masons

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall; Will This Press Arbitration Scheme Do Any Good At All?

United Kingdom Litigation

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Withers LLP

The Curious Incident Of The Unreported Tory Sex Scandal

United Kingdom Privacy

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Withers LLP

Media News - March 2016

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Fieldfisher

Court Of Justice Rules That Videos On Newspapers' Website Can Fall Within AVMS Directive

European Union Media & IT

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Dentons

Print Is Alive And Well – At Least For Books

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Deloitte

UK Immigration Update – Indefinite Leave To Remain ILR After 10 Years Residence

United Kingdom Immigration

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Thaxted Legal

Legal Consideration For Hotels: Planning (Video)

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Gowling WLG

Major ILR Changes Incoming – A Moment Of Unprecedented Shift

United Kingdom Immigration

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WestBridge Business Immigration

Banking Litigation Podcast Episode 56: Monthly Update – September/October 2025

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Episode 14: Shaking Up The World Of Private Equity (Video)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Alvarez & Marsal

The Development Of The Parody Exception To The Copyright Infringement

On 1 October 2014, two new "fair dealing" exceptions were introduced, one of which allows use of a copyright work "for the purposes of caricature, parody or pastiche".

United Kingdom IP

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Fieldfisher

Top Ten Shared Blogs Of 2014

As 2014 comes to an end, I set out my top ten blogs of 2014

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Fieldfisher

Super Injunctions

Jeremy Clarkson and Andrew Marr make unlikely bedfellows. I speak not of any private relationship between the two, but the legal issue that they have in common.

United Kingdom Privacy

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Withers LLP

Brooks Newmark 'Entrapment': New Press Watchdog In Spotlight As Fallout Sets Tone For Future Of Tabloid Journalism

The way the new press watchdog handles the fallout from the Sunday Mirror's alleged "entrapment" of minister Brooks Newmark will set the tone for the future of British tabloid journalism.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Wedlake Bell

Data Protection And Journalism: Guide For The Media Published

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Independent Press Standards Organisation ("IPSO"): The New Press Regulator

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Have Companies Lost The Ability To Sue For Defamation?

United Kingdom Litigation

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Nabarro LLP

Failure to update online publications can prove costly when circumstances change

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Addisons

Post-Leveson Update: Where Are We, 1 Year On?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Media Interviews - Don’t Get Caught Out!

United Kingdom Media & IT

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TCii Strategic and Management Consultants

Illegal Content And The Internet: A Consultation On Notice And Action Procedures

United Kingdom Media & IT

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Hyperlinks Do Not Constitute Publication Of Defamatory Material

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Blake Lapthorn

Press Complaints Commission "Name And Shame" Grazia Magazine

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Eversheds Sutherland

Newspapers Headline Copyright Battle

United Kingdom IP

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MacRoberts

Illegal Content And The Internet: A Consultation On Notice And Action Procedures

On 4 June the European Commission launched a public consultation on procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Hyperlinks Do Not Constitute Publication Of Defamatory Material

In October 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Wayne Crookes and West Court Title Search Limited v Jon Newton (2011) SCC 47 that publishing a hyperlink on a website to a defamatory article will not give rise to liability for defamation.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Blake Lapthorn

Press Complaints Commission "Name And Shame" Grazia Magazine

What? Grazia published an altered photograph of the Duchess of Cambridge from her wedding day. The alterations, among other things, made the Duchess’ waist appear thinner.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Eversheds Sutherland

Newspapers Headline Copyright Battle

A group of national newspapers and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) have won a copyright battle against Meltwater, a news monitoring company, and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA).

United Kingdom IP

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MacRoberts

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Burness Paull

Media Predictions 2010 - Part 1

Welcome to the 2010 edition of Media Predictions. This is the ninth year in which the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group has published its predictions for the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Deloitte

Author Of The Catcher In The Rye Sues Over Sequel…

JD Salinger - the 90 year old author of "The Catcher In The Rye" - has filed a law suit in the US claiming that a new book called '60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye' infringes his copyright in the original novel and in its protagonist Houlden Caulfield.

United Kingdom IP

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Matthew Arnold & Baldwin

Crosstown Traffic – Automatic Reversion Of Music Copyrights

A recent case, Crosstown v Rive Droite, upheld a reversion of copyright to songwriters – widely regarded as a bad move if you are a publisher.

United Kingdom IP

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Michael Simkins LLP

Google Library Project Settlement Agreement

On 28 October 2008, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google announced that they had reached a potentially groundbreaking Settlement dealing with Google's much-publicised 'Library Project', which involved Google digitizing publications without permission from the rights holders.

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Harbottle & Lewis

Media Predictions TMT Trends 2009 - Part Two

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Deloitte

Media Predictions TMT Trends 2009 - Part One

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Deloitte

Confidentiality: When Does A “Reasonable Expectation” Of Privacy Arise?

United Kingdom IP

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Wedlake Bell

Book Titles And Trade Marks

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Michael Simkins LLP

Mistaken Identity And Defamation: How To Reduce The Impact Of A Damages Claim

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Harbottle & Lewis

Behind The Headlines Of Da Vinci: Inspiration Or Infringement?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Harbottle & Lewis

Newspapers Must Apologise With Due Prominence

United Kingdom Media & IT

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Can You Take Copyright To A Higher Level?

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Bristows

Da Vinci Code Appeal Dismissed

United Kingdom IP

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Bristows

Privilege, And This Time We Mean It

United Kingdom Media & IT

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5RB Chambers

Michael Douglas Photo Exclusive And Other Stories

United Kingdom Litigation

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Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP

PCC Remit To Cover Press Websites, Journalists’ Blogs And Podcasts

United Kingdom Media & IT

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Media Predictions - TMT Trends 2007 - Part Two

United Kingdom Media & IT

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Deloitte

Media Predictions - TMT Trends 2007 - Part One

United Kingdom Strategy

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Deloitte

No Breach of Code - But Sorry Seemed To Be The Hardest Word

United Kingdom Government

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Pinsent Masons

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