Intellectual Property and Digital Media Law Case Studies

Assess high-value generative-AI risks in a global VFX pipeline, including the exposure of unreleased film assets through unauthorised model training or prompt misuse. Possible outcomes included NDA breaches, contract termination, production shutdown and potential losses of millions of pounds.

We reviewed AI warranties, indemnities and liability allocation, focusing on how overseas vendor obligations interact with main production contracts. Our analysis covered cloud-tool training permissions, proprietary asset risks, insurability and key negotiation points.

Advise a pre-launch consumer app handling photographs and personal information relating to children. The client needed to address data-protection requirements and understand how app-store purchasing rules interacted with a business model involving the supply of a physical product.

Our advice covered lawful basis, children's data, data-protection impact assessment, retention and privacy documentation. We also examined the interaction between in-app purchasing rules and physical-product supply, identifying the compliance issues requiring attention before launch.

Advise a SaaS platform following a dispute with an external development agency asserting retained copyright in custom-developed software. The ownership issue was delaying a €15 million investment and required analysis of the platform's rights and documentation for future investor due diligence.

We reviewed development agreements and intellectual-property provisions, analysed the contractual chain of title and assessed ownership, licences and residual developer claims. We identified the documentation required to confirm ownership and support investment and due-diligence readiness.

Advise a high-profile, public-facing individual whose likeness had been used to create non-consensual AI-generated intimate imagery distributed through a UK-facing platform. The client needed to understand removal and escalation options while harmful synthetic content continued to circulate online.

We considered evidence preservation and mapped the harmful publication, assessing platform reporting, escalation routes and a content-removal strategy. The advice also examined available legal options and potential platform or other third-party responsibility for the continuing circulation of the imagery.