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Lawyer: Jonathan Coad
(The Simkins Partnership)
Status: Founder Member
since 2004
E-mail: jc@ifla.tv
Jonathan Coad has been
a specialist media lawyer for seventeen years. Before training as a lawyer,
Jonathan graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, after which he spent six
years pursuing a career as a professional musician.
He trained in the media
and entertainment department of a London city law firm, and on
qualification in 1991 he joined the celebrity firm Schillings, where he
became a partner in 1994. In 2001 he joined the specialist media firm The
Simkins Partnership as a partner.
Jonathan now heads up the litigation team at new specialist media
firm Swan Turton based in
London’s Covent Garden, where he specialises in the law of copyright,
defamation and privacy.
Jonathan acts for a
wide range of media corporations and publishers. He successfully defended
the Granada Media Group and ITV in the action brought against them by
Charlie Parsons and Castaway Productions Limited over the rights in I'm A
Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. As well as acting for a number of corporate
and individual clients in format rights disputes, he has also delivered
seminars both in the UK and Europe on format rights and protection.
Jonathan also advises
many well known personalities and organisations in the public eye, and
regularly delivers seminars on media management. He is the author of
numerous media law articles and is an expert commentator on media law
issues for television, radio and the press. He is married, with two
children, and still plays jazz professionally.
For details of our
seminar on how to protect your format rights contact Jonathan Coad at jc@ifla.tv
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