Your challenges
The proliferation of media networks, changing patterns of media consumption and the ability to create near-perfect copies of content is making it increasingly difficult to monetise creative rights. At the same time, advertisers are finding cheap and direct routes to consumers through internet aggregators, undermining traditional broadcast, sponsorship and advertising models.
Achieving your ambitions
Whether you are a content producer, rights owner or network provider, you need lawyers who understand the production process and the commercial realities of media businesses.
We have experience, gained both working in-house and as external lawyers, of drafting and negotiating production and commissioning agreements, agreements with artists and visual effects producers, website agreements, agreements for the sale and purchase of magazine and newspaper titles, agreements for the broadcast of sports rights and agreements for the sponsorship of sports teams and venues. We will use this experience to help you to achieve both your creative and your commercial objectives from any given deal.
The strength you need
With lawyers who have worked in-house at the BBC, Granada, OFTEL (now OFCOM), United News & Media, Warner Bros. and on secondment with Norwich City Football Club and Archant (one of the UK’s leading news, magazine and online publishers), we bring a depth of understanding of the media and entertainment industries rarely found in private practice.
Our team of two partners and four other lawyers has experience of working alongside media executives, rights owners, film and television producers, journalists, editors and advertising and sponsorship executives. As well as this media and entertainment expertise, you will also have access to specialists in employment, tax, intellectual property and pensions, ensuring you get the complete service you need.
Lawyers you can trust
The team is top rated in the East of England in Legal 500 for media work and the directory comments that the team combines “notable legal and in-house production experience”.