The combination of our new and traditional media expertise and Bird & Bird’s unique heritage and leading position in technology and communications make us ideally placed to help our clients to navigate this dynamic, fast-changing media landscape.
We understand the need for media players to diversify in order to step up to the challenges and opportunities of digital media.
Our creative and practical solutions help our clients to achieve real commercial advantage.
On both domestic and international matters, our team offers a full range of legal services.
Legal considerations on the Internet of things: 2015 and beyond
IOT is a very promising and interesting new area of business, as well as an incredible opportunity to provide new services and improve the quality of existing ones. It is a complex and unregulated area, which will need new dedicated legislation to thrive and develop.
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What companies need to know about moving into Europe
If the United States and the United Kingdom are two countries separated by a common language, Europe is a common market separated by 28 languages. Doing business, even in England, where, as George Bernard Shaw (or maybe Oscar Wilde) alluded to, words may be common to both countries, but the meaning of those words in English may not be as they are in American.
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Social media and Game Retail Ltd v Laws UKEAT
The EAT has held that a dismissal for offensive tweets by an employee on his personal Twitter feed was potentially fair and that a tribunal had incorrectly applied the range of reasonable responses test.
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Russian import sanctions lead to EU market support (aid) measures
As detailed in our newsletter of September 17, 2014, the European Union ("EU") has extended the scope of the sanctions against Russia.
In its turn, Russia enacted on August 6, 2014 Decree No. 560 prohibiting the importing of certain listed agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs to Russia from the USA, EU Member States, Canada, Australia and Norway, following the restrictive measures imposed on Russian legal and natural persons by those countries.
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Margrethe Vestager: the new EU Competition Commissioner unveils her agenda to the European Parliament
On 10 September 2014, Margrethe Vestager, former Danish minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior, was nominated by Commission president-elect, Jean-Claude Juncker, as European Union Commissioner for Competition. On 2 October, Ms Vestager appeared before the European Parliament for a three-hour confirmation hearing during which she explained the top priorities for her term of office.
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How a Unitary Patent and a Unified Patent Court will change your EU patent strategy and what you can do now to prepare
The Unitary Patent system, including the Unified Patent Court, is not yet operational. The target date of early 2015 has recently been acknowledged as being overly ambitious; the end of 2015 is now said to be the earliest that can be achieved. Despite the delay, patent proprietors and applicants should be thinking now about their strategy for meeting the challenge created by this new intellectual property right.
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UAE: What are some of the potential legal issues surrounding TV formats?
TV shows are big business. According to tview’s annual report (http://tview.ae), Arabs’ Got Talent, The Voice and Arab Idol were the top three TV shows watched by UAE households in 2013. What do these popular TV shows have in common? The answer; they are all extremely successful (and lucrative) TV formats.
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Ten recommendations for the data reforms of the decade
As the new Commission and Parliament, and Council of Ministers, roll up their sleeves for final work on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Partner Ruth Boardman and Consultant Francis Aldhouse, stand back and suggest ten ideas to improve data protection.
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