Intellectual Property News

As part of a ten-part BBC One documentary series ‘Northern Justice’, members of the McDaniels Law team feature with some of our clients who share their experience of others copying...

As seen on BBC One, a 10-part documentary series ‘Northern Justice’ shows how our team helps clients to protect their intellectual property. Featured in episodes 4,5 & 7, we empha...

The Cypriot Government has been successful in its bid to register halloumi as a protected designation of origin (“PDO”). As a result, products which do not meet the PDO criteria fo...

The famous model Emily Ratajkowski has recently settled a copyright case arising from her posting a photograph of herself on her Instagram story. Ms Ratajkowski was sued in 2019 by...

Are you wondering what assets you have or how to protect your brand? Do you wonder what it would take to make sure that you have what you think you need? Would you like some help f...

We have previously reported on the questions of policy raised as a result of the growth of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and the relationship it has with intellectual property law...

A Hollywood gathering of media production companies have come together to file a copyright infringement and breach of contract claim against repeat pirate IPTV service operator, Ja...

On Monday 28 June the High Court ordered Default Judgment in favour of Dr Wright, the creator of Bitcoin in his claim against an anonymous blogger, known as Cøbra. Cøbra is the ...

Amazon has officially announced its deal to buy the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (“MGM”) studios for nearly £6 billion. MGM is the home of the James Bond franchise, the Rocky and Cr...

The famous YouTube clip, Charlie Bit My Finger, will be removed from the platform after it was sold for over half a million pounds via auction. The video was first aired on YouTube...

In its action to tackle piracy, Disney has been granted a new patent that aims to prevent early piracy leaks of its collection of movies and TV shows. The patent named “blockchain ...

Today the Premier League announced that it had agreed to rollover the existing television broadcasting rights deal in the UK. That means that the BBC retains the extended highligh...