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Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2014 – Support for the creative sector

Royal Mail appoints Simkins to legal panel

Copyright Seminar: Seeing the funny side …

Employment Law Update November 2014

Training Contract Applications open for 2017

Simkins recommended once again in the UK Legal Directories

A trustee, and you don’t know your FATCA obligations? You should!

Winners of the Blackstone Chambers 2014 Media Quiz

Employment Law Update

The parody exception – having the last laugh

MPA wins case against controller of Newzbin

Ofcom fines Discovery for pre-watershed graphic material

Modernising film tax credits

Facebook’s Community Standards: Severed heads are okay, but nipples are bad (unless accompanied by a baby)

Copyright exceptions on parody, quotation & private copying approved by Parliament – changes in effect 1 October 2014

Opinion: An Australian Court issues a “gagging order” which is being called an “abuse of process”. Fair assessment or not?

Playboy Club wins damages claim against Italian bank for negligent customer reference

Winners of the Ivy’s 80’s Music Quiz

Reporting, the courts and young people: time to reconsider?

Music and Taxation: The State of Art, Verbier, 18 July 2014

New Guidance: Relief from sanction, Mitchell Clarified

Ownership of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” determined

The parody exception – seeing the funny side of it

Bloomberg: ” ‘Google It’ Becomes ‘Hide It’ After Right to Be Forgotten “

Google’s “Transparency Report” is an interesting read

The Prince of Wales’ letters case – information access ban unlawful

Renewed calls to tackle “revenge porn”

Becky Hill – No. 1 in UK singles chart

UPDATE: Google and the “right to be forgotten”

Opinion: The Right to Be Forgotten: A Good Thing?

Opinion: A future with social media: Wild West or Utopia? You have a stake in the outcome

Digitisation after Google Books – is fair use fair dealing?

‘Revenge porn’: whether you are a film star; girl next door; or daughter of an executive, greater legal protection is needed for victims

Health spa takes a bath at the CJEU

Seminar: E&O Insurance & Clearance Issues

Broadcasting Regulation Newsletter

Collective Rights Management: multi-territorial licensing and self-regulation

Communicating copyright works – when you can and can’t link to websites

Can copyright subsist in a music compilation or playlist?

Victory for landlords as Court of Appeal hands down decision in the Game Station case

New privacy and jurisdiction headache for Google

The business of digital music in 2014 – reasons to be cheerful?

The business of digital music in 2014 – reasons to be cheerful?

PR and Marketing Seminar: Making Music Work

E&O Insurance & Clearance Issues

TV Remote

Copyright Tribunal rules on licence fee to be paid by BBC to Welsh collecting society

Assignments of future copyright extend to rights that writers “may” own

Should investors be concerned about defamation claims brought against a company in the English courts?

Why EIS? – some vital statistics

Michael Simkins LLP is nominated as Best EIS Legal Advisor

Simkins’ Gideon Benaim comments on social media abuse on Sky News

Operators of Websites

Online Contempt of Court: Gideon Benaim appears on Sky News HD

The Future of Responsible Journalism?

Straw v. Jennings – US record label wins in distribution profits dispute

The end of fair comment: ‘Honest Opinion’ and the Defamation Act 2013

“Serious Harm”: a new requirement in the Defamation Act 2013

A catch for TVCatchup – limits of the cable defence

Corporate reputational risk – a lawyer’s perspective

Theatre Seat

Paddy Gardiner comments on plagiarism in the music industry

Shopping Bag

Broadcasting Regulation Newsletter

Site operator defence for defamatory user posts – is it workable?

Sky handed paddle by Ofcom in Canoe Man privacy decision

Michael Simkins LLP advises Captify on its first round of investment

Three people looking at laptop

Broadcasting Regulation Newsletter

The Finance Bill 2013 – changes to EIS and SEIS

Sky’s the limit for ISP blocking orders

The online secondary ticket market and the Met’s report

Reputation protection lawyer Gideon Benaim’s thoughts in PR Week on the post-Leveson world.

Heartbroken by infringement of performer’s rights

Finding “nemo” – a sub-licence capable of surviving the head licence

Leveson, “secret arrests” and the rights of suspects: a question of balance – Hugh Tomlinson QC

Whose line is it anyway? – new exceptions for parody and private copying

Leveson Update – 20 March 2013

The right to RocknRoll in private

Michael Simkins LLP advises BMG on the acquisition of Sanctuary

Oscar triumph for Searching for Sugar Man

Penny Jar

Naomi Campbell wins libel action against newspaper

Reputation Protection Update – January 2013

The true cost of anonymity – changes in residential property taxes

Typewriter Copyright Text

Michael Simkins LLP represents supermodel Naomi Campbell in libel action

Independence Day – article by Gideon Benaim

Three people looking at laptop.

Pursuit of social media users hailed as watershed moment

Leveson Report to be published on Thursday 29th November

Historic meetings with PM, Deputy PM, and, Leader of the Opposition

Pursuit of social media users hailed as watershed moment

AAA v Associated Newspapers – what price a child’s privacy?

So you think you know what a house is …

Front-page feature of Simkins’ lawyer Gideon Benaim in The Lawyer, 8 October 2012.

“Fit and proper” regulation?

Seven key steps to licensing music for digital exploitation

DEA Initial Obligations Code – second time lucky?

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