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JD Salinger - the 90 year old author of "The Catcher In The Rye" - has filed a law suit in the US claiming that a new book called '60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye' infringes his copyright in the original novel and in its protagonist Houlden Caulfield.

After publishing an inaccurate article on page 5, the Daily Express buried an apology on page 33.

When dealing with any issues reported in the press make sure you check the publication’s online media as well.

On 4th September, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its guidance on data protection law and the media,

The 'Game Changers' conference featured a panel of games industry executives comprising CEO Chris Wood, COO Viktorya Hollings and general counsel Daniel Goodall and Tim Marin...

Two recent court decisions concerning photographs taken without consent analyse the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test and highlight the demarcation in the law between photographs of individuals engaged in a private activity and a public activity.

This expected decision that Dan Brown had not plagiarised continues the recent line of unsuccessful copyright infringement cases over the expression of general ideas.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was an investigation into press behaviour.

A declaration of interest: as well as being a lawyer, I am also an author.

In October 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Wayne Crookes and West Court Title Search Limited v Jon Newton (2011) SCC 47 that publishing a hyperlink on a website to a defamatory article will not give rise to liability for defamation.

The Court of Appeal decision handed down earlier this week in Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd has landed a telling blow on attempts to erode the law’s insistence on compliance with the highest ethical standards of journalism.

A group of national newspapers and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) have won a copyright battle against Meltwater, a news monitoring company, and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA).

As 2014 comes to an end, I set out my top ten blogs of 2014

It is often said that copyright protects the expression of an idea, but not the idea itself. The Court of Appeal applied this principle in deciding a recent copyright infringement action over computer games.

Impress, the alternative press regulator to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), recently announced that it has applied for official recognition under the Royal Charter.

These cheery words open the Royal Charter devised by the UK political parties as a means of responding to the Leveson recommendations concerning standards in the press, which received assent this week (30 October 2013) at a meeting of the Privy Council.

What? Grazia published an altered photograph of the Duchess of Cambridge from her wedding day. The alterations, among other things, made the Duchess’ waist appear thinner.

John Whittingdale MP has had what must have been an uncomfortable time this week, as a result of action by some of the subjects of his ministerial responsibilities.