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Media & entertainment 22 Aug, 2023

Disrupting Hollywood: AI and the writers’ strike

In media and entertainment, AI is going beyond generating efficiencies to achieve incredible feats. But at the same time, it’s bringing thousands o...

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Media & entertainment 19 Jul, 2023

Media liability insurance for today’s content creators

As risk profiles for today’s content creators continue to change, here’s how an occurrence-based policy safeguards their creative endeavors.

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Media & entertainment 16 Mar, 2023

Finfluencers: High risk, or high reward?

Financial influencers – finfluencers – focus on educating around areas such as investing, personal finance and equity/currency trading. They have d...

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Cutting through the noise around NFTs

Media & entertainment 7 Dec, 2022

Cutting through the noise around NFTs

If you were going to spend millions of dollars on art, would you rather own a real-life Monet or a digital image? And how would protect yourself ag...

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Online sellers what insurance do they need

Media & entertainment 30 Nov, 2022

Licensing agreement liability insurance 101

Worth an estimated $315 billion, the global licensing industry is rapidly expanding as brand owners increasingly monetize their intellectual proper...

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Technology 1 Nov, 2022

The influencer: Always looking for followers, but should be looking for cyber cover

Social media is everywhere. Doctors use it, lawyers, teachers, even grandparents, not to mention the billions of TikTok users out there. So, it’s n...

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Technology 12 Sept, 2022

5 things you need to know about NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have taken the digital world by storm in recent years. From Snoop Dogg to high school students, people and their NFTs are...

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Intellectual property 7 Sept, 2022

WTF... NFTs

CFC Summit 2022: Michael Brunero - Head of Tech, Media & IP, CFC

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Media & entertainment 29 Jun, 2022

Popular media insurance myths debunked

Media liability insurance protects businesses against lawsuits brought against them for defamation, intellectual property infringement and breach o...

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Media & entertainment 5 Apr, 2022

Licensing liability risks come in all shapes and sizes

Many businesses such as food companies, manufacturers, fashion firms use third party intellectual property (IP) provided to them by way of a licens...

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Media & entertainment 29 Mar, 2022

Influencers: How are they so successful, and what are the risks?

Social media has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade, and with this has come the emergence of content creators capitalising on a captivat...

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Technology 24 Mar, 2022

CFC reinvents cover for tech & media companies

CFC, the specialist insurance provider, pioneer in emerging risk and market leader in cyber, today unveils its revamped policies for tech and media...

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Media & entertainment 8 Mar, 2022

Modernised media cover for the digital age

The ways in which we consume content are ever-evolving, and so too are the entities that create and distribute it

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Media & entertainment 7 Feb, 2022

Media liability claims case study: Loose licensing

Event producer defends intellectual property infringement allegations from local artist

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Financial institutions 13 Dec, 2021

The perfect Christmas day with CFC

Christmas day - dreamy for some and stress inducing for others. As another year rolls by, we decided to look at all the elements of Christmas day a...

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Intellectual property 18 Nov, 2021

Netflix turns to trademarks to grow Squid Game revenue

Entertainment streaming giant Netflix has filed more than two dozen trademark applications to protect the intellectual property (IP) associated wit...

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Boy sitting on a peach in a book and on a TV screen

Media & entertainment 12 Oct, 2021

A new spin on old classics

Roald Dahl is set to be reinvented after Netflix bought the rights to the author’s books from his family. The deal builds on a previous arrangement...

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Media & entertainment 15 Sept, 2021

Esports: Building momentum

CFC’s Jade Giltrap looks at the ways in which IP exploitation is driving a booming esports industry, particularly in the wake of Covid-19.

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