Media

Sky's video games joint venture will help it level up significantly

Sky recently announced that it had formed Skybound Stories, a joint venture formed with Skybound Entertainment, the company behind the post-apocalyptic comic book turned multi-award winning TV series "The Walking Dead," to create video games.

11 Oct 2018

Dirty laundry: Do British businesses risk being tarnished by new EU anti-money laundering rules post-Brexit?

Fieldfisher corporate crime partner Francesca Titus and corporate crime associate Elliott Kenton discuss how moves to tighten up EU AML legislation could side-line UK companies.

05 Oct 2018

Brexit – the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

As a current Member State of the European Union, the UK regulates audiovisual media services in line with the requirements of the AVMS Directive.

18 Sep 2018

"Slam dunk" – NBA star exploits media deals from athlete endorsements

Fledgling athlete signs first endorsement deal with sponsor. Money changes hands (via the athlete's agent of course). Athlete fulfils contractual obligations, appears at a few events and mentions the brand on his or her social media account a few times. A generic contractual relationship. Need it be? I think not.

10 Sep 2018

Cannes "Film" Festival Reflections

As usual the Media and Entertainment team here at Fieldfisher attended the Cannes Film Festival. Or as it should have been called this year "Cannes let's-only-talk-about-TV-not-Film Festival".

13 Jun 2018

Putting aside the 800 pound media plurality gorilla in the room, the Sky bidding war can still have plenty of benefits for UK content producers

Any member of the media industry not living under a rock will be aware that yesterday Culture Secretary Matt Hancock cleared the way for Comcast and 21st Century Fox's to engage in the bidding war for Sky.

07 Jun 2018

European law makers strike a deal on key changes to the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive

The European Parliament, European Council and the European Commission have reached preliminary political agreement on the main elements of the proposed changes to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS Directive)

10 May 2018

Venture Capital Schemes and the Risk-To-Capital Condition

HMRC's recent guidance on the new rules relating to Venture Capital Schemes sheds some light on the risk-to-capital condition's impact on the Film and TV sector.

30 Apr 2018

Fan engagement in Horse Racing – fears that the bubble will be burst with Sky's raid on rights

Horse racing is one of the last remaining sports in the UK with consistent live coverage on a free to air station but there are fears it too will be heading the way of a subscription service.

30 Apr 2018

UEFA Scores its own blocking injunction

A recent blocking injunction requires internet service providers to block access to servers providing infringing streams of live UEFA matches.

30 Apr 2018

SAG-ATRA seal TV/Theatrical Contracts deal delivering a host of improved terms for members

SAG-AFTRA have secured a variety of improved terms for members as part of its latest TV/Theatrical Contracts agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

30 Apr 2018

Premier League rights deal – Sky and BT Sport remain the big players for the next four years. What about the OTT platforms?

It may be of no surprise to the pundits that five of the seven packages of Premier League matches for the 2019 to 2022 seasons have been awarded to Sky and BT Sport, with Sky winning four packages to broadcast 128 matches and BT Sport winning one package to broadcast 32 matches live each season for a total of £4.464bn.

15 Feb 2018

Editorial adjacency: one year on

In an article written last year entitled ‘Protecting against detrimental placement of content online’ for this publication, Tom Guida, Partner and Head of Media and Entertainment at Fieldfisher, argued that advertising/editorial adjacency was a growing issue that deserved greater attention from content creators and advertisers.

11 Jul 2017

Groundhog Day: Preparing for a WGA Strike

The potential WGA strike provides a good opportunity to review force majeure clauses and attitudes towards them.

27 Apr 2017