Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
Media Contracts in the Digital Age: Protecting Rights and Mitigating Exposure
As content delivery shifts online, so do the risks. In this practical session, Nicholas Kraegen explores key contract provisions to safeguard media rights, avoid exposure, and respond to evolving distribution models. From platform liability to IP clauses, gain practical guidance on drafting resilient contracts that hold up in the fast-paced digital landscape.
Presented by Nicholas Kraegen, Special Counsel, Baker & McKenzie
Chair
Kevin Lynch, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery; Best Lawyers 2022, Defamation and Media Law
Presenters
Kevin Lynch, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery
Kevin has over twenty years’ experience in advising media and technology companies in relation to defamation, contempt, privacy, legislative restrictions, broadcast regulation, copyright, contractual matters and trade practices. With the JWS team Kevin provides dedicated defamation and pre-publication advice to prominent online, radio and television clients, including multinational media distributors and publishers. The 2020 edition of the Asia Pacific Legal 500 lists Kevin listed as a leading individual in media and entertainment where he is described as “a valued adviser, bringing exceptional experience, grounded assessment of claims and commercially-based advice across a range of specialised areas”. Chambers and Partners ranks Kevin as a notable practitioner – “an experienced and extremely capable lawyer who takes a very commercial approach to his matters”.
Nicholas Kraegen, Special Counsel, Baker & McKenzie
Nick is a Special Counsel in the Media and Content team, within the IPTech practice and acts on a variety of commercial, advisory and litigious matters. Nick advises and represents a range of clients in the media and publishing, IT, communications, and FMCG industries, including in relation to intellectual property (with a strong focus on copyright) and advertising law. Acting for licensees in the Copyright Tribunal has been a significant part of his practice in the last several years. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie he worked in-house at NineMSN, now Nine Digital. Nick's work also focuses on copyright enforcement strategies in a digital context, and he has represented a range of international and domestic rightsholders in anti-piracy proceedings.
