The Live Music Forum, created by the Licensing Act 2003 and chaired by Feargal Sharkey, has issued a call to arms to the music industry and fans alike: act now to help exploit a rare opportunity to expand live music in the UK. On 7 February 2005, an unprecedented six-month period begins, in which licences … Read more
The House of Lords last week handed down its judgment in the case of Cream Holdings Limited and Others v Banerjee and Others. A Merseyside publisher of the “Daily Post” and the “Liverpool Echo”, published allegations by Ms Banerjee, a former employee of part of the Cream Group, the nightclub promoters, regarding alleged corruption involving one … Read more
Where revenues from international representative matches provide the preponderant income source for a sport (as is the case in cricket), the use of such revenues for the employment of non-England qualified players will always cause much spluttering in the committee rooms (and dressing rooms as well). The centralised contracting by the ECB of an elite … Read more
A US court has ruled in favour of a website owner sued for libel over defamatory material concerning a user of the site posted on the site by another user. Crucially, however, it was the well-drafted exclusion clause in the website’s terms and conditions, rather than web-immunity legislation, that saved eBay from liability for libel. … Read more
