Focus Group Leader - Media & Entertainment
London, UK
+44 (0)20 7667 0525
angela.weaver@beazley.com
Angela Weaver is the Focus Group Leader for the Media & Entertainment offering and has over 30 years of insurance industry experience in both the carrier and broker industries. Angela manages a global team of underwriters focused on the insurance of content, regardless of how it is disseminated, and whether it is promotional or not. The products categories that fall within Angela’s Media & Entertainment team include: professional indemnity/media liability for the advertising, communications, digital and creative sector; media liability for publishers, broadcasters and all kinds of content creators; TV & Film producers E&O; and music liability insurance for songwriters, artists and music publishers. Angela’s specific areas of expertise include negligence and breach of contract, copyright and trademark, music rights and music copyright, trademark, libel/slander.
In our increasingly online world, the ease with which anyone, regardless of expertise, can publish articles, podcasts and videos, creates new risks for content creators and publishers, particularly the risk of being held liable for another’s reliance on their content, potentially regardless of whether they intended for their audience to rely on it.
Podcast popularity has skyrocketed over the last few years, emerging as a powerful platform for storytelling, education, and entertainment. In 2019, there were 274.8m podcast listeners globally.
Social media platforms like X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have provided individuals with a publishing reach far beyond that of traditional media.
Many generative-AI platforms are trained on insights from a range of data sources including pre-published information on the internet and beyond. By their nature, they are creating content, advice, and material that is likely to be generated from multiple sources.