The In-House Lawyer

Divorce and the media: the courts, the pay-outs and the speculation The rising divorce rate and some well-publicised settlements running into tens of millions of pounds have focused attention on a growing issue in divorce cases: just how far can spouses go to obtain information about ... Read more	Stop the press:the Reynolds defence Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd & ors [2001] established a new defence for libel claims in which the story is in the public interest and the publisher acted ‘responsibly’. The Reynolds defence is designed to ... Read more
Minimising internet threats to the corporate reputation without blowing the budget With every year seemingly bringing a new way for reputations to be tarnished instantly and globally online, it’s easy to blanch at the scope and expense of dealing with such threats. The situation is not ... Read more	Reputation law: differences between the English and US approach in libel and privacy The Internet is a growing threat to corporate and individual reputations, and with more than 1.46 billion people worldwide using the internet, with access to a myriad of social networking sites, wiki sites and blogs, ... Read more
How to handle social media threats and clean up online reputations The battleground for protecting reputations has historically been print media. All eyes were focused on the news-stands. With the advent of the internet, the battleground has changed immeasurably.Within the internet, there is an abundance of ... Read more	Account of profits v damages: when and why does it matter? Since 2007, Experience Hendrix LLC(Hendrix) and Times Newspapers Ltd (Times) have been litigating over the intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert that took place at the Royal Albert Hall ... Read more
Government consults on its proposals to outlaw ticket touting Illegal ticket resale at the country’s flagship sporting fixtures has been a thorny issue for the events industry for a number of years now. The government has finally seen fit to propose a package of ... Read more	Google Library Project settlement agreement On 28 October 2008 the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google announced that they had reached a potentially groundbreaking settlement dealing with Google’s much-publicised ‘Library Project’, which involved Google digitising publications without ... Read more
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