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As investor appetite for hybrid hospitality projects continues to grow, it is important to identify and implement an operating model that ensures the commercial goals of the project owner can be achieved.

In this article Ben looks at the current moves by the UK’s recording industry to push for a Europe wide extension in the term of copyright for sound recordings - from fifty years to ninety five years. But Ben asks if this is the time for a complete overhaul in the way copyrights are owned and suggests that any change in term should only be made with additional provisions to protect both the customers and the creators of recorded music.

On 26 March 2015, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a consultation paper titled "The balance of payments between television platforms and public service broadcasters – options for deregulation".

In its 13th year, Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions presents our view on the major trends that will impact UK businesses in 2014.

On 28 June 2010, Ofcom launched a consultation into an amended Broadcasting Code (the "Code") which, when implemented, will allow for product placement in UK television programmes for the first time.

On March 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision that will reshape not only how copyright law applies to the internet for years to come, but could impact other areas of intellectual property law as well.

Ken Livingstone has been suspended for a month from membership of the Greater London Authority (GLA) as from 1 March 2006 for remarks to a Jewish reporter from the London Evening Standard that he was 'just like a concentration camp guard'.

Ofcom has upheld a complaint of unfair treatment from Novartis AG about a documentary, Dying for Drugs, broadcast by Channel 4 in April 2003.

In May 2025, Golfweek reported that the Spanish player Jon Rahm struck a fan with a golf ball during the PGA Championship 2025. It turns out that was the third time this player had accidentally...

A High Court judge has dismissed an application for a permanent injunction to prevent media outlets from publishing serious allegations against a prominent public figure, despite evidence of significant psychiatric risk. The ruling examines whether the European Convention on Human Rights Articles 2 and 3 impose obligations on courts to prevent publication when there is a genuine risk to life, and clarifies the requirements for obtaining injunctions based on Convention rights.

Given its escalation all the way to the Bristol Crown Court, even the casual sports fan will have noted the media furore regarding Ben Stokes and the street brawl he engaged in last September.

The High Court, in its first judgement on the Freedom of Information Act 2000("FOIA"), has considered a fundamental jurisdictional issue in addition to widening the scope of what information falls within the ambit of "journalism", to which the Act does not apply, giving public service broadcasters greater rights to keep information from being released.

In a world which is becoming increasingly concerned with the privacy and use of personal data, the rise in mobile applications ("App(s)") which utilise people's biometrics is somewhat surprising.

In February 2009, the OFT was invited by the UK government, as part of the Digital Britain review of the UK’s digital and communications policy, to look into whether any legislative changes to the UK’s media merger regime are necessary (the OFT Review).

Shortly after I took the file over, the ill-drafted defence that I inherited was struck out, and the prospects of defending the action looked bleak...