We have broad experience advising clients from a wide variety of sectors including publishing, retail, consumer goods, fashion, and digital technologies. Our media lawyers provide practical advice to clients on a variety of arrangements relating to sponsorship, exploitation of media rights, advertising and sales promotion; TV show clearance (show names, content and related merchandise); defamation issues (including in relation to TV personalities); ASA advice; and internet / social media issues.
Many of our team have developed strong commercial instincts through spending time advising on media law during in-house on secondment to key clients.
As well as our work in supporting on exploitation of media rights, our contentious team has a strong reputation and a successful record in respect of its work in both enforcing and defending media rights.
Areas of focus
Our media law expertise covers the following areas:
- Sponsorship arrangements
- Celebrity endorsement and ambassador arrangements
- Exploitation and licensing of media rights
- Protection of media rights
- TV show clearance (show names, content and related merchandise)
- Defamation issues (including in relation to TV personalities)
- Advertising and sales promotions advice in the context of CAP code compliance, including programmatic advertising
- Internet / social media issues (including social media influencer agreements)