Brian
graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters
in Law and is a commercial/IP lawyer specialising in
interactive entertainment, music copyright, intellectual
property, information technology, e-commerce and commercial
contracts. He joined Davenport Lyons as a partner in
2002 from Virgin Interactive.
Brian’s practice concentrates on both contentious
and non-contentious intellectual property advice across
a wide variety of old and new media, IT, broadcasting
and general commercial sectors. He has acted on behalf
of clients from the music, IT, internet and computer games
industries, including games publishers and developers,
software publishers and developers, web designers, distributors,
collection societies, record companies, recording artists
and music publishers.
His work includes:
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Publishing, development, licensing
and distribution agreements for the production
of computer games and similar digital media
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Online gaming and merchandising
agreements, MMORPG terms and other internet related
activities/issues
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Advising on the terms and assisting
in the financing (including completion bonding)
of computer games
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Trade mark, copyright, software
and other intellectual property license agreements
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Web design, on-line terms and
conditions, privacy policies and other on-line
publishing agreements
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Advising on broadcasting rights,
the licensing thereof and related royalty disputes
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Advising on the transmission
of digital media
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Advising on internet, distribution,
agency and other commercial arrangements
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Advising on the protection, ownership
and exploitation of trade marks and software
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Advising on IT and e-commerce
law issues
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Combatting piracy of intellectual
property
Brian is the author of numerous articles
in the fields of IT and computer games. He is a member
of The Society of Computers & Law and
a member of the legal advisory group of FAST (Federation
Against Software Theft). He is listed in
the Legal Experts Guide, the Computer Games section
of the Legal 500 and cited as a ‘Best of the UK’ lawyer
(Computer Games) in Chambers UK.
Articles written by Brian Miller
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