Laurie Kaye

• Lead external lawyer on the development of Pottermore.com – J K Rowling’s vision for the Harry Potter books online
  
• Provides strategic commercial insight and innovative legal solutions
  
• Advises media and technology companies, publishers, film and TV producers, authors and brand owners on e-commerce and intellectual property exploitation in digital and other forms
  
• Recognised as a leading internet and digital media law expert
  
• Experienced adviser on European copyright and e- commerce policy

"Laurence Kaye Solicitors were our core legal team on the Pottermore.com project, including working on contract negotiations with our lead commercial partner Sony Corporation, our suppliers of site design and build services as well as leading an international legal compliance programme for the site. Throughout, they have showed professionalism, sector expertise and an innovative and proactive approach in providing practical solutions to the many legal issues with which we have been faced – Neil Blair, Pottermore.”

Laurie Kaye is an expert lawyer in the fields of digital law, intellectual property and media law. He is recognised in the independently researched “Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2012” as a leader in the fields of Media Entertainment & Information Technology law. “”Laurence Kaye is an invaluable authority for publishers who have moved their content to the internet”. “He is easy to instruct as his drafting is generally clear and unambiguous, even when dealing with complex technical issues.”

He advises a number of new entrants to digital markets seeking to harness cutting-edge technologies and innovative business models, as well as established brands and rights holders launching and exploiting existing and new channels and platforms in the digital space. 

Laurie is copyright adviser to the European Publishers Council.  He was the lead author of their ‘Vision Document for the Future of Copyright. From December 2008 to August 2010, Laurie served as a member of the Copyright Expert Panel appointed by the UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy. Most recently, he contributed to the Hargreaves Review on Intellectual Property.
 
Laurie advises and lectures regularly on digital media and e-commerce legal issues in Europe. He has worked closely on a number of key EU Directives, including the Copyright, Database and E-Commerce Directives. He also takes part regularly in copyright policy think tanks and roundtable discussions with policy makers and industry. Laurie is also a regular blogger on digital media law.

Laurie founded Laurence Kaye Solicitors in 2002. The firm is now top ranked for client service in the Chambers Guide 2012 for ‘Media & Entertainment’ – ““From a client’s perspective, it is very proactive, and gives highly useful talks”.  “The team at Laurence Kaye “is great – it’s pragmatic when it needs to be, and its responsiveness is excellent.”