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Birgit Clark

Baker McKenzie
Birgit qualified as Attorney-at-Law in Germany in 2001 and subsequently also as UK and European trade mark attorney and solicitor. Having published her doctoral thesis in the field of intellectual property and privacy laws, she has been specialising in trade marks and designs and related soft IP in the United Kingdom since 2006. Birgit is an extensively published legal author (in English and German) and legal commentator and blogger. She is lead knowledge lawyer for Baker McKenzie’s global IP & Technology practice.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2001

Membership

  • ITMA, GRUR

Education

  • Rechtsanwalt in Germany (Frankfurt am Main)
  • Registered UK and a European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
  • German State Exam in Law in 1997 (University of Tbingen, Germany)
  • German State Exam in Law in 2001 (Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart)
  • Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) (University of Tbingen)
  • LLM University of Aberdeen UK

1 Contributions by Birgit Clark

EU AVMS Directive (2010/13/EU, as amended by 2018/1808): scope incl. VSPs, country-of-origin, content/advertising controls, European works quotas, EMFA changes and upcoming evaluation
PRACTICE NOTES
EU AVMS Directive (2010/13/EU, as amended by 2018/1808): scope incl. VSPs, country-of-origin, content/advertising controls, European works quotas, EMFA changes and upcoming evaluation
This Practice Note offers guidance on the consolidated EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive (Directive 2010/13/EU). The EU AVMS Directive sets out rules that govern content and advertising for AVMS. The Original EU AVMS Directive applied to traditional television (linear services) and on‑demand programmes (non‑linear services). This Practice Note also addresses the later amendments introduced by the Revised EU AVMS Directive (Directive (EU) 2018/1808). Throughout, ‘EU AVMS Directive’ is used to describe the overall EU AVMS regulatory framework first set in Directive 2010/13/EU and then updated by Directive (EU) 2018/1808. Where the text refers only to Directive 2010/13/EU, it uses ‘Original EU AVMS Directive’; where it refers solely to Directive (EU) 2018/1808, it uses ‘Revised EU AVMS Directive’. Historical regulatory context In the early 1980s, viewers had relatively few programme choices—state-owned and other terrestrial free‑to‑air broadcasters dominated the market and were tightly controlled by domestic broadcasting regimes. The technological shift of that decade, including satellite transmission, drove swift advances in television and radio distribution and spurred the emergence of commercial TV and radio outlets across Western Europe. The laws...
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