The Lib Dems and the E-Privacy Directive
In a blaze of publicity, the Liberal Democrats (a UK political party, for those not familiar with them) announced that party leader Nick Clegg was going to call thousands of households to talk about...
View ArticleChristmas comes early
For followers of media law, that is. The European Court of Human Rights gave its decision in another political advertising case today, TV Vest AS & Rogaland Pensjonistparti v Norway. Having already...
View ArticleMonday morning: product placement and video-on-demand
Two developments (not coordinated, it seems, just one of those things) that may interest regular readers, both relating to the implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) directive within...
View ArticleThinking of the children
An interesting document was published by the Home Office this week, a report on the ‘sexualisation of young people’. Download the report here. Media coverage includes the Guardian on magazines, Toby...
View ArticleAdvertising and ancient stones
Here are two tales of advertising on ancient (or not-so-ancient) stone, in the famous city of Venice and in the less famous (but arguably older!) city in which I live, Norwich. Let’s start with that...
View ArticleComplaints, content regulation and media convergence in the UK
During 2011/12, I’ll be working (among other things) on a project on media content regulation in the UK, with a particular focus on complaints about broadcasting. It’s funded by the British Academy...
View ArticleSLS 2011: Media and Communications
This is my (personal) report on the Media and Communications subject section at the annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, held in Cambridge this week. For those not familiar: the SLS is...
View ArticleTripAdvisor
I’ve written about this week’s two TripAdvisor stories (Conor Pope’s piece on an Irish hotel group in the Irish Times and the ASA’s ruling on TripAdvisor’s marketing claims) over on the blog of the...
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