Jane Clemetson
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Jane Clemetson is a Solicitor (England & Wales).
Jane is an experienced, versatile commercial, IP and data protection lawyer who works with creative businesses, large and small, in the creative, media and entertainment sector. She has extensive experience in advising them on legal and business affairs matters relating to the creation and exploitation of intellectual property of all descriptions and on advertising, marketing, sponsorship, events, social media, the digital economy, tech, data protection and AI.
Jane Clemetson also provides advice and training on data protection and privacy issues.
She delivers cost-effective and pertinent strategic legal and business advice, including on complex and challenging deals. Jane understands how to effectively and proportionately manage risk and control compliance whilst navigating legal, compliance and commercial obstacles.
After pupillage at the Chancery Bar and a spell as an assistant solicitor at Slaughter and May, Jane Clemetson joined Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) as its sole lawyer and company secretary before joining Sony Music’s legal and business affairs team. She was a legal and business affairs consultant for many years, before going in-house at Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror plc), another of her clients, where she set up and led the Commercial Legal Department, with responsibility for all commercial and contractual legal matters across its businesses.
Jane Clemetson has worked with news publishers and producers, including ITN, Associated Newspapers, News International, Telegraph Media Group, The Racing Post and ESI and with production companies on commissions from ITV, the BBC, Channel 5, Netflix, Disney+ and AppleTV. She has also worked with podcast producers, record companies (Sony Music, EMI Music Europe), music publishers, book publishers, artists, composers, computer games designers, cloud service and e-commerce providers.
Jane has also worked on public policy issues, via media industry bodies, including online safety, age-appropriate design, ad tech, the digital markets unit and the adoption of the digital publishers’ right in the UK post-Brexit.
At Reach, Jane introduced processes to standardise contracts and improve contracting and governance procedures, including a contract lifecycle management platform, which included a “self-service” option to empower non-legally qualified colleagues to take responsibility for simple contracts. Jane gained recognition for this with a European Woman of Legal Tech Award.
Jane Clemetson was also responsible for creating and refreshing template agreements, business terms and “playbooks” for many aspects of the business to enable digital evolution and solution automation.
Inksters brings Jane’s legal expertise in these areas to the Scottish business market.
If you are a business in need of advice on or help with any of the above, then please contact Jane now.
Contact Jane Clemetson on 03454 500 123 or send Jane an e-mail.