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Advance Warning: 10 top tips for negotiating distribution agreements

The article below was first published on Broadcast Now (the Broadcast website) on 17 October 2008 under the title Mipcom: Advance Warning.Advance WarningSo you've just come back from your skirmishes in the bunker at MIPCOM with that distribution advance....

UK IPO Consultation on Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions

The UK IPO (formerly the Patent Office) has issued a consultation document (Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions). Responses are invited by 8 April 2008. The consultation and background...

Blog: Watch out, children about

This blog was first published by Broadcast on its website www.broadcastnow.co.uk on 11 January 2008 and is reproduced here by kind permission of Emap. New Ofcom guidance on protecting under eighteens could force television producers to re-think how...

Gowers Review Update

Have you read the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property published last December ? Do you want to know what progress has been made on implementing the recommendations of the review? The following article by Pamela Forte was first published in the Law...

News Release 1 October 2007

NEWS RELEASE 1 October 2007. VALLEYWOOD INSPIRES CREATION OF WALES FIRST NICHE MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW PRACTICE. The construction of the Valleywood film studios and the success of programmes such as Doctor Who has prompted lawyer Pamela Forte...

Are you the owner of a trade mark or thinking of applying for one?

If so, you need to be aware of changes to the trade mark examination process which will come into force on 1 October 2007.With effect from 1 October the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) will no longer refuse to register a new trade mark application...

Welcome to the website of Forte Law!

A very warm welcome to the website of Forte Law!Visit this section of the website regularly to view: articles and comments on legal developments in the media and entertainment industry, copyright, freedom of information and data protection and...

Terms of business

Application of these Terms //These terms govern the relationship between Forte Law and each of its clients unless we specifically agree otherwise in writing.These terms will also apply to any other matter on which you instruct me unless we agree otherwise.Legal...