Jack Jones
Jack Jones is a partner within the Interactive and Advertising teams at Sheridans. Since starting his career as a games lawyer, Jack now applies the knowledge he gained within the video games industry to sport and advertising, in particular social agencies, where he helps his clients navigate and adapt to the wide variety of commercial and intellectual property issues that arise in the evolving digital world.
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PRACTICE NOTES
UK legal issues in podcast production: IP ownership, advertising compliance, Online Safety, defamation, third-party licensing, and key host-producer terms
This Practice Note offers hands-on guidance on the principal legal issues linked to making podcasts. It covers: what a podcast is; the intellectual property (IP) rights that subsist in a podcast; other regulatory and legal matters affecting podcasts; and key issues in podcast agreements.
What is a podcast?
Although the term ‘podcast’ has evolved since the early 2000s, most people regard podcasts as audio—and increasingly audiovisual—programmes delivered by streaming or downloading straight to a user’s smartphone or another device. Podcasts have grown enormously in popularity and some analysts predict the market could be worth close to US$100bn in the coming years. That rise has been driven by a range of factors, including:
widespread smartphone use, making it simple to stream and download podcasts
lower barriers to entry than traditional media, enabling creators to swiftly test, develop and produce new podcast formats
many shows beginning life as self-produced projects...
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