Media

Passions were often running high in the early days of cinema: David Hewitt takes a tour through some incidents which ended up in court

What exactly is ‘music’ for copyright purposes? David Langwallner looks beyond the lyrics & settles the score

The decline of local newspapers has resulted in court proceedings being less visible to the public, and digital media has so far failed to fill the gap, a parliamentary committee has warned.

David Hewitt takes a trip back in time to a cinematic outing so outrageous, it ended up in court

‘All characters & events depicted in this film are entirely fictitious… even when they’re not’: Athelstane Aamodt examines some perilous portrayals on the big & small screen

The Supreme Court has confirmed it will not hear an appeal from RT (Russia Today) against Ofcom’s 2019 fine for impartiality failings

A date has been set for the first stage of a gigantic opt-out class action against Facebook (now known as Meta), worth a potential £2.2bn

In the first of two articles from the barricades, David Burrows reflects on the uneasy relationship between privacy, anonymity & transparency

Amy Zuckerman reports on how lawyers can help their clients deal with the media

To what extent does the right to be forgotten apply to blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin and other ledger-based systems? Not only is it technically impossible but, following the end of the post-Brexit transition period, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) no longer strictly applies (although the GDPR’s provisions have been incorporated into domestic law).