News & Events | Seminar

Protecting and Enforcing Digital Rights
Thursday 12th July 2007
at 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4R 1BE

The world of entertainment is changing quickly as digital distribution channels proliferate and consumers increasingly control the content they watch and listen to. This third seminar in a series of three will look at how rights owners can protect their content in a digital world and whether too much protection can attract the attention of the regulators and competition authorities.

Speakers
Mark Simpson, Senior Associate, SJ Berwin LLP
Chantal Reid, Business Affairs Manager, BMG Music Publishing
David Rose, Partner, SJ Berwin LLP

Timetable

08.15 Registration & Breakfast
08.45 Seminar commences
09.45 Questions & Answers
10.00 End

Programme

This seminar will cover the following topics:

• Chairman's Introduction 
  
  
• Digital Rights Management: interoperability and competition issues
  - why have DRM?
  - refusals to license as abuse of dominance
  - intervention under consumer protection legislation: is the consumer still king?
  
  
• Issues for the Music Industry
  - the piracy problem
  - protecting rights holders
  - blanket licensing
   
  
• Liability issues for search engines, website owners, network providers and users
  
  
• Enforcing IP rights in a digital environment
  
  
• Questions and Answers

Training

SJ Berwin is accredited as a provider of continuing professional development by the Law Society and other professional bodies. Attendance to these seminars qualifies as 1 CPD per hour, reference 012/SJBE.

RSVP

By email to martin.punt@sjberwin.com  including in the message your name and organisation as well as the name of the seminar. (Please note you are welcome to attend some or all of the seminars). Alternatively by fax on 020 7111 2000. Colleagues are welcome to come in your place.