Maria Constantin
· Maria is a newly-qualified UK lawyer at Preiskel & Co with wide-ranging experience across the firm’s corporate, commercial, competition and media departments.
· Maria advises clients ranging from startups to enterprise-level businesses in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors on matters relating to fundraising, franchising, corporate governance matters and commercial disputes. She also has experience advising clients on the adoption of data protection protocols with a particular focus on ensuring compliance with GDPR. Maria also provides commercial legal advice to clients in the media and entertainment sectors, particularly relating to the financing, production and exploitation of filmed content for feature films and television.
Maria holds an undergraduate degree in Law from Queen Mary University in London. Following her undergraduate degree, she completed an LLM in International Banking and Finance Law at University College London. She then finished her studies by completing the Legal Practice Course with Distinction at BPP University. Maria is fluent in English and Romanian, and has a working understanding of Spanish.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2023
Experience
- Preiskel & Co LLP (2020 - Present)
Qualifications
- LLB in Law (2018)
- MsC in Law (2019)
Education
- Queen Mary University London (2015-2018)
- University College London (2018-2019)
1 Contributions by Maria Constantin
PRACTICE NOTES
UK net neutrality and open internet access: assimilated Regulation (EU) 2015/2120, Ofcom powers and 2023 statement, zero‑rating guidance, traffic management, specialised services, transparency and enforcement
Net neutrality
‘Net neutrality’ denotes the idea that the internet should operate without discrimination, ensuring every user enjoys the same opportunity to reach any online resource. Coined in 2003 by Tim Wu, a Columbia University media law scholar, the label sits within a wider set of principles upholding freedom in how the internet is used. Framed as a flexible answer to the technology sector’s evolving needs, it places decision-making over what people encounter online with the individual rather than the broadband company that provides their connection.
In practice, this amounts to an open internet, where internet service providers (ISPs) deliver connections and treat all content and services even-handedly, with service quality keeping pace with technological progress. Viewed through a legal lens, net neutrality is commonly expressed as a ban on limits and/or discriminatory measures that hinder people’s access to online material. The doctrine emerged from European legislation, largely as a counter to certain traffic-management tactics used by ISPs that favoured or penalised specific data flows...
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