Huw Beverley-Smith practices in public and private sector IT
procurements and outsourcings, intellectual
property ownership and licensing, data protection, new media
and e-commerce.
Huw has experience of working in the public sector, technology
& communications, media &
entertainment and energy sectors.
Huw is the author of: The Commercial Appropriation of
Personality (Cambridge University Press 2002) "a
blueprint for the study of any area of the common law which is
being radically adapted to meet new technological, economic and
cultural changes” (Entertainment Law Review) (published in
Mandarin for the Chinese market by Peking University Press in
2007); and Privacy, Property and Personality (with A Ohly
and A Lucas-Schloetter) (Cambridge University Press 2005). He has
written a number of articles in UK and international journals
including the Entertainment Law Review, Modern Law Review,
and the International Review of Copyright and Competition
Law, in addition to a number of industry journals and
contributes a regular column (with Simon Briskman) for Outsource magazine.
He is the author of three chapters in Outsourcing Law and
Practice (Law Society 2010) and was an Assistant Editor
of Copinger and Skone James on Copyright (14th ed Sweet
& Maxwell 1999).
Huw speaks frequently on technology and new media issues, recent
examples including presentations on: exit from outsourcing
agreements at the Law Society; intellectual property ownership
and exploitation to a leading global consulting services
organisation; personality rights in new and converging media to
major global and pan-European broadcasting companies. He also gave
two papers at the Privacy and Personality Rights in Comparative
Perspective conference, Centre for Intellectual Property and
Information Law, Cambridge University, chaired by Lord Justice
Jacob.