Annual Global Conference 2024
25 June 2024
Online, Ondemand
Law Firm Registration General Registration
Media Law International is hosting its fourth Annual Global Conference, bringing together brilliant minds, sharing expertise and insight into one of the world’s most dynamic industries.
This rapidly growing event brings together legal experts and senior decision-makers from around the world. The AGC4 will provide the opportunity to listen to thought-leadership sessions, build relationships with your peers and engage with an audience of CEOs, founders and investors. Our audience also includes in-house GCs and senior lawyers with commercial and legal solutions specifically designed to support the media industry.
Delegates will hear from global leaders and connect with senior industry figures. The event theme is Digital Content, Press and Entertainment given the increasingly significant role each segment in the industry. The conference uses a sophisticated platform for sponsors and speakers, providing delegates with the option to watch sessions live or on-demand for up to 30 days after the event day. The AGC4 platform offers an immersive 3D experience, with virtual hall, lobby and auditorium access for all delegates.
Media Law International (MLI) is an independent publishing business producing legal rankings across 60 jurisdictions, an expanding, as well as thought leadership. We deliver detailed rankings of law firms and insight into the world’s leaders in media law practice.
MLI is dedicated to the legal industry and an exclusive focus on media law. Our comprehensive research programme involves in-depth analysis of law-firm capabilities, market presence and sector specialisation.
The MLI team has worked rigorously over the past decade to ensure the highest standards in research and rankings production. Our expansive, qualitative research allows us to fully examine each market under review. MLI identifies leading firms and individuals based on depth of expertise and complexity of work, presenting firms to a global media audience.
In addition to the annual global guide, MLI produces a series of resources for law firms and media companies, including a quarterly e-Zine and on-demand Legal Practice Guides.
Press Law and Regulation
09:30 - 10:30 (BST)
Kinga Incze, Founder of Mediaspace.global (Hungary, UK)
Hamish Sandison; dual-qualified lawyer; chairman of Mediaspace (UK)
TBC
The internet disrupted linear media and publishing and new global digital platforms - search; social media; streaming and upcoming web3 – keep forming market reality. With the rise of new regulations to make digital a better; safer; privacy-safe; plural space with fair competition; regulation; consumer protection; freedom of speech; taxation and so on; new regulations are born. EU is pioneering but US and other countries are also leading the way. It’s not only the legal frameworks changing but regulatory bodies; trade associations and the media and advertising industry need to collaborate more than ever.
Our professionally diverse expert panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the new; digital driven regulations; hosted by MLI partner Mediaspace.global; the global social platform for leading professionals in media; marketing; tech and regulation.
10:40 - 11:40 (BST)
Gill Philips, Director of Editorial Legal Services; The Guardian (UK)
Dominic C Harrison, Head Lawyer; Programme Compliance; Channel 4 (UK)
David Attfield, Head of Programme Legal Advice; the BBC (UK)
Adam Cannon, Director of Legal; The Sun (UK)
TBC
This session will look at some of the cutting-edge current issues in privacy; data protection; defamation and open justice as they affect the UK media landscape. It will offer insights and expertise from four in-house media law experts across the publishing spectrum; looking at recent case law and other developments. It will discuss the implications for freedom of expression in the UK arising from the online Safety Bill; the National Security Bill and anticipated developments around data protection regulation and SLAPP lawsuits.
11:50 - 12:40 (BST)
Karyn Harty, Head of Litigation; Dentons (Ireland)
Lesley Caplin, Dentons
TBC
Against the backdrop of proposed reform of defamation law in Ireland, this session will shine a spotlight on a number of the proposed new measures. The discussion will cover SLAPPs and what can and is being done to tackle them in Ireland, and will include a lively discussion on the case for AI in the context of defamation and risk.
12:40 -13:40 (BST)
Digital Content and Advertising
13:40 - 14:10 (BST)
Ken Herron, Chief Growth Officer; UIB Holdings Pte. Ltd (US)
TBC
This session will assess the use of environmental claims in advertising under the framework of political consumerism, scrutinizing greenwashing practices and their impacts in Turkey landscape. It will contain insights and examples on greenwashing as a marketing tool, while contemporary legal regulations and decisions issued by the Turkish Advertising Board and competent authorities in EU pertaining to environmental claims will also be addressed. The discussion will encompass the effects of greenwashing on sustainability practices, from the standpoint of both advertisers and consumers.
14:20 - 14:50 (BST)
TBC
15:00 - 15:40 (BST)
TBC
15:50 - 16:50 (BST)
Director of Editorial Legal Services,
The Guardian
Head of Programme Legal Advice,
The BBC
Director of Legal,
The Sun
Head Lawyer, Programme Compliance,
Channel 4
Head of Litigation,
Dentons
Dentons
Founder,
MediaSpace & Whitereport
Chairman,
Mediaspace
Chief Growth Officer,
UIB Holdings Pte. Ltd