In addition to television, radio and digital media work, Stephen's experience also covers film and music rights, sports agreements and all forms of print and online publishing. 

Stephen chairs the Education Licensing Working Group, which has streamlined copyright licensing for the education sector, is a member of the Copyright Advisory Panel to the Intellectual Property Office and is a Vice Chairman of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association.

For many years Stephen has been rated in the top tiers of media lawyers by the directories Legal 500 and Chambers. He writes the chapter on the broadcasting sector for the standard work on copyright law, “Copinger & Skone James on Copyright".