A unique seminar on How to Protect Your Format to be held in the course of Format Show

In the course of international conference Format Show, which will take place on September 11 2012 and will be the first one in the row of conferences of KYIV MEDIA WEEK, the partner of the London law firm lewissilkin Jonathan Coad will hold a unique seminar “How to Protect your Format”.

The following facts describing current situation in the global formats industry prove the necessity of such seminar:

• it is estimated that the global format business turnover is over $ 5 billion a year;
• recently American Idol format show from FremantleMedia was estimated to be worth $ 2,5 billion;
• TV formats have become a significant subject of intellectual property, that’s why it is extremely important to protect them correctly, so that others have to pay to license the format, and don’t just copy them;
• still today there’s not enough legislation to guarantee the format protection from copying, however, there is a law of practice, which will help to defend your idea in the court;
• as a rule, the most complicated situation is with reality-show formats, which are often inexpensive to produce, but are harder than others to protect.

Jonathan Coad is a law expert in the sphere of media, entertainment, brands and technologies. He is a partner in the law firm lewissilkin, and founder and CEO of the International Format Lawyers Association. The list of his clients includes Granada Media Group/ITV.com, BSKYB, Channel 4, MTV/The Comedy Channel и Virgin Media, Fremantle Media, Sony, BMG, Syco. He advises on the questions of copyright, format rights, unfair competition, etc. He is the author of numerous media law articles and he has delivered seminars both in the UK and Europe on format rights and protection.

 The complete program of the Format Show can be found on the conference webpage. 

We remind you that international conference and screening of TV formats Format Show will be held on September 11, 2012 in the Radisson Blu hotel in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK.

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