Media lawyer, Sara Vandore-Mackay, gives an overview and refresher session on content legal & compliance in film & TV production today
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FOCUS on: Legal & Compliance for Indies
1.00-2.00pm, Thursday 25th May 2023
Online via Zoom Webinar
In this webinar, media lawyer, Sara Vandore-Mackay, will give an overview and a refresher session on content legal & compliance in film & TV production today.
About this event
Familiarity with screen regulatory issues and pre / post-broadcast media law (including privacy and defamation, standards, fairness and commercial content, sensitive editorial ethics and duty of care issues) allows indies to adopt the right production protocols and best practice guidelines from the outset, and can also help navigate the inevitable ‘bumps in the road’.
In this webinar, which offers an up-to-the-minute refresher in content legal & compliance, experienced media lawyer, Sara Vandore-Mackay, will provide advice and guidance on all aspects relating to legal & compliance issues in production, including:
What legal advice you may need
Working with Streamers
Privacy, consent and secret filming
Defamation and fairness (including right to replies)
Copyright and “fair dealing”
Duty of care (including children and vulnerable contributors)
Commercial references
Ofcom Standards / Watershed issues
About Sara Vandore-Mackay
Sara is a highly experienced media lawyer with over 15 years post-qualification experience and 12 years of specialist media law work.
Since joining Reviewed & Cleared in November 2019, Sara has worked for producers and broadcasters to provide legal advice for feature films and dramas, investigative journalism, documentaries, entertainment programmes and podcasts, for both linear and streaming platforms. She advises on all aspects of media law and compliance including privacy, data protection and defamation, copyright and “fair dealing”, Ofcom standards, fairness, commercial content and branding, as well as developing production protocols and considering sensitive editorial ethics and duty of care issues. She has worked on a number of Scottish productions including The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld for Finestripe Productions, Scotland’s Greatest Escapes for Red Sky and Pictures from Ukraine for Dulcimer Films. In May 2020 she was appointed a legal expert for the FOCUS programme.
Prior to joining Reviewed & Cleared, Sara was a lawyer in the award-winning Legal & Compliance team at Channel 4 Television for eight years, providing editorial teams with pre- and post-broadcast media law and regulatory advice including programmes such as the Dispatches strand, 24 Hours in Police Custody, Grand Designs and The Undateables.
Sara has a background in high-level litigation having qualified as a solicitor in the Commercial Litigation department of magic circle law firm Allen & Overy in 2006, working on complex commercial claims. She then moved to Claimant law firm Schillings in 2010, where Sara advised private clients, corporations and high net worth individuals on media law and regulatory issues in relation to newspaper publications and investigative broadcasts.
Sara has been described as “quick, clear and supportive” and prides herself on providing practical and pragmatic advice on all aspects of publication and broadcast media law. Originally from Edinburgh, she left the bright lights of London for the rolling hills of East Devon.
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