Publishing
We work with clients from across the broad spectrum of the publishing sector, in print and digital media, acting for creators, vendors and distributors of original and archive content.
As a firm, we work very closely with industry bodies in the sector, and are associate members of the PPA and the AOP, among others. In addition, members of our team have worked in-house, including on secondment from the firm, at magazine businesses, newspapers, radio stations, book publishers and music labels, and are therefore familiar with the commercial and practical issues which businesses operating in the publishing industry face day-to-day.
Our work for clients in the sector brings into play all that we do across the firm, from M&A and joint ventures to employment and immigration advice via IP, tech and commercial advice, content creation and pre-publication advice, consumer, ecommerce, dispute resolution and real estate. Working closely with our colleagues in the marketing services and commercial groups, we are at the forefront on many issues affecting the sector, including ad fraud, ad blocking and programmatic inventory trading as well as the constantly-changing regulatory environment for issues such as data privacy and the regulation of brand funded, video and digital content. This helps inform the work we do in more traditional areas in the publishing world such as book deals, option agreements and defamation.
Our clients range from multinational media groups to digital first start-ups, international bestselling authors to artists and we tailor our advice and approach to fit the individual needs of each person who chooses to instruct us
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