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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

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Music.

Position

Head of music group. Represents artists and producers, including Acoustic Ladyland, Bugz In The Attic, Carmen Reece, Eskimo Disco, Findlay Brown, Gwyneth Herbert, Hot Chip, Jamie Cullum, James Ford, Joe Gibbons, Leona Daly, Simon Lord, The Choir Boys, The Flies and The Modern; represents major record labels, including Decca Music, Mercury Records, Polydor records, Universal Music Operations UK, Universal Music TV Division, Universal-Island Records, Universal Classics & Jazz, and Universal Music Ireland; represents independent record labels/publishers, including City Rockers, Dean Street Music, Hellenic Records, Invada, Mosho Moshi, New Frontier, NRK Records and Safehouse Entertainment; represents management companies, including Air! Management, Emperor Management, Gallus Music Management, Low Fat Management, Modern Art Management and Urbantorque Management; represents TV/film companies in connection with music-related issues, including Killing Ants, Pathe Pictures, At It Productions and BBC Worldwide; represents advertising agencies in connection with music-related issues, including Ogilvy & Mather and McCann Erickson; represents online and mobile music distributors, including Omnifone and 7 Digital.

Career

Trained Berwin Leighton; qualified 1992; solicitor Clintons; solicitor Lee & Thompson; director of legal and business affairs Polydor Limited; consultant, then equity partner Lewis Davis Shapiro; founding equity partner Smiths-Law LLP; Harbottle & Lewis LLP.

Education

Reynolds High School, London; Exeter University (1987 BSc (Hons) Physics with Medical Physics (First Class Honours)); College of Law (1989 CPE; 1990 LSFE First Class Honours).

Practice Areas

Film, TV, theatre, music; Media and entertainment

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  • Account of profits v damages: when and why does it matter?

    Since 2007, Experience Hendrix LLC(Hendrix) and Times Newspapers Ltd (Times) have been litigating over the intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert that took place at the Royal Albert Hall in February 1969. In September 2006 Times distributed a free CD, or covermount, with each edition of The Sunday Times . A claim was issued against Times in March 2007 for infringement of copyright and performers’ rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. In March 2008 the High Court held that Times had infringed the IPR in the recording and Hendrix elected to have an inquiry as to damages in respect of that infringement. The case has given rise to some complex issues as to the basis for the quantification of damages, and the inquiry is due to be heard next year, but the case is also a reminder of more general considerations in relation to remedies in IPR cases, and why the basis for quantification of those remedies can have far reaching consequences for a successful claimant.

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