Media and Entertainment

Our experience includes advising:

• TVWorks on its successful judicial review of a procedural determination of the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
• Completing a pre-production review of the scripts and episode cuts of a major New Zealand television production and advising on defamation, copyright and broadcasting standards issues.
• MediaWorks, TVNZ and Māori Television in relation to the joint acquisition of the free-to-air broadcast rights for Rugby World Cup 2011 and the joint sale of sponsorship advertising packages.
• Providing strategic advice to clients on threatened defamation proceedings.
• Advertisers in relation to Advertising Standards Authority complaints.
• Broadcasters in relation to Commerce Commission investigations.
• On media applications to access court files in ongoing proceedings.