Entertainment Law, Media Law and Telecoms Law

Ben Drury, CEO and Co-founder of Yoto, shares his entrepreneurial journey from founding dotmusic.com and 7digital to creating a screen-free audio platform that now serves over a million families globally. What drives a serial entrepreneur to tackle the challenge of children's screen time, and how does problem-solving fuel innovation in child development technology?

The UK's Global Talent visa route has expanded to include commercial designers, offering a prestigious immigration pathway for professionals excelling in graphic design, brand design, product design, and related fields. This new category, endorsed by the Design Business Association, provides opportunities for recognized design talent to work and settle in Britain.

Co-production agreements enable theatre companies to pool resources and share risks when developing and staging theatrical productions. This article examines the essential contractual provisions that parties should negotiate before embarking on a co-production, from financial contributions and rights ownership to marketing responsibilities and future exploitation rights.

Elliott Sparsis shares his entrepreneurial journey from founding Sociable Surveyors at university to launching Together, a hospitality-led meetings and events business. He discusses how COVID-19 transformed corporate demand for meeting spaces, why companies are abandoning in-house auditoriums, and his vision for creating human-first experiences that combine real estate expertise with exceptional hospitality.

New discretionary powers for mayors and local leaders to introduce visitor levies have sparked controversy in the UK hospitality sector. With Manchester, Liverpool, and Edinburgh already implementing accommodation taxes ranging from £1 to 5% per night, the industry faces questions about whether these charges support local regeneration or place unsustainable burdens on an already heavily-taxed sector. As more cities consider following suit, the debate intensifies over balancing municipal revenue needs a

Branded residences have evolved from a niche luxury offering into one of the fastest-growing sectors of the global real estate and hospitality market. Industry experts explore the sector's rapid growth, key market trends, and the opportunities and challenges facing developers, investors and brands as demand grows for high-quality, service-led living experiences.

Co-production agreements enable theatre companies to pool resources and share risks when developing and staging theatrical productions. This article examines the essential contractual provisions that parties should negotiate before embarking on a co-production, from financial contributions and rights ownership to marketing responsibilities and future exploitation rights.

“KPop Demon Hunters” has grown far beyond a successful animated film, becoming a global phenomenon that has attracted audiences around the world.

In Take 3.9 TV Partnership and others v HMRC [2026] UKFTT 696 (TC), the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) held that the appellants were carrying on a genuine trade and therefore the equity-funded portion of their film production expenditure qualified for tax relief, but the debt-funded expenditure was incurred only to enhance tax relief and therefore did not qualify for tax relief

AI has fundamentally altered how reputation is shaped, with AI-powered search engines now delivering authoritative-seeming summaries rather than traditional search results. From deepfakes and voice cloning to coordinated review bombing and bot-driven harassment campaigns, the threats are evolving rapidly—but so are the defensive tools available to those who understand how to deploy them strategically.

On 2 April 2025 we published our FAQs titled “How can a regulated provider challenge a decision by Ofcom under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA)?”.

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act to strengthen children's online safety across the EU, introducing age-based restrictions on social media access and requiring platforms to demonstrate...