Schedule – Media Law International

Day 1

22 June 2021

08:30 — 09:00

Registration

09:00 — 09:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:15 – 09:45

Digital Content and Copyright: European Copyright Directive: An example of transposition

Presentation

Christophe Dickes, Global Copyright Director at Kantar and Copyright, Commissioner for FIBEP and AMEC, France

To face the big techs such as Google and Facebook, the European parliament has voted a new Copyright Directive in 2019. The same year, the French Parliament was the first country that has transposed this new text in the French law to support the publishers. What was the main discussion about this text at national level regarding data mining and neighbouring rights? What were the publisher’s expectations with this directive? How have the big techs have reacted? What are the perspectives?

09:45 — 10:45

Digital Content and Copyright

Presentation/ Panel TBC
Agnieszka Wiercińska-Krużewska, Founding Partner, WKB

10:45 — 11:00

Screen Break

11:00 — 12:00

Digital Content and Copyright: The Social Media Company’s Liability to the Content Provider for Copyright and Trademark Infringement

Presentation

Jeanne Hamburg, Norris McLaughlin, US
Robert Lands, Howard Kennedy, UK

Even as the EU has proposed that social media platforms filter content to address the persistent problem of IP infringement, Congress and US courts have consistently placed the burden of enforcement of IP rights on their owners. In the US internet Service Providers including social media companies are not liable for copyright and trademark infringements on their platform’s absent notification by the IP owner. Learn about the scope of liability in the US and the UK for infringement of copyright and trademark rights in your content and arising from its merchandising.

12:00 — 13:00

Lunch and Networking

13:00 — 14:00

Press Law and Personal Rights

Panel

Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Service, Guardian Media Group,
Adam Cannon, Director of Legal, The Sun
Dominic C Harrison, Head Lawyer – Legal & Compliance, Channel 4
David Attfield, Head of Programme Legal Advice, the BBC,
Legal issues of reputation protection in media, including digital media

14:00 — 14:30

Press Law and Personal Rights:

Presentation

Karyn Harty, McCann FitzGerald, Ireland
Libel Tourism

14:30 — 14:45

Screen Break

14:45 — 15:15

Entertainment: The changing media landscape

Presentation

Mark Hill, Partner Charles Russell Speechlys, Middle East

15:15 — 16:15

Entertainment: The Influence of Cultural Differences to film production and distribution

Presentation

Julia Sycheva, Director of Legal and Business Affairs, ViacomCBS
Igor Mukhin, Senior Compliance Editor for Comedy & Entertainment, ViacomCBS

16:15 — 17:00

Entertainment: When the creative meets the commercial: How commercial imperatives and legal & business affairs influence creative outcomes in content production across film, television and other creative IP-driven industries.

Q&A

Danny De Warren, Film and TV Producer, Wellspring Studios/ Europe
Ivan Kelava, Senior Business Affairs Manager, Hanway Films

17:00 — 17:15

Closing summary

17:15 — 18:00

Networking