Intellectual Property News

Twitter has started to remove tweets at the request of users who believe that the content of their tweets has been stolen. If someone believes that their work has been stolen they...

The UK Government will have to review its decision to permit private copying for personal use after the High Court in London quashed the The Copyright and Rights in Performances (P...

The aphorism that the "wheels of justice turn slow but grind exceedingly fine" is well suited to the recent decision by the Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") on a consultation t...

The comedian, Michael McIntyre, and his publicist Alison Peters, have been spotted, snapped and tweeted on the National Police Air Support Unit (NPAS) official Twitter account. A p...

Sony is currently being sued by 19 Recordings Ltd.  Sony has taken a financial stake in the music download site Spotify and therefore benefits from general advertising revenue howe...

Adi Lederman, a computer hacker who stole and released unfinished material from Madonna's Rebel Hart album, has been sentenced to 14 months in jail by Tel Aviv Magistrates Court in...

A California photographer, Dennis Flaherty, is suing beverage company Big Red for using one of his photographs on their social media account for promotional purposes. This form of ...

Facebook has won the latest case against an Austrian law student who is attempting to sue the social network on privacy grounds. In the latest ruling in a long-running legal battl...

The defendant in the case of Phonographic Performance Limited Music Licensing Co. v Fletcher, received a prison sentence after repeatedly infringing copyright by playing music with...

Apple Music is a new music platform set to be released in over 100 different countries by the end of June this year with the intention of positioning Apple in direct competition wi...

Social media technology has a history of subverting the rigid and inflexible way in which institutions transact with their customers. Napster, through use of its peer to peer techn...

US authorities are currently investigating claims that a US baseball team have hacked into the computer of a rival team. The St Louis Cardinals are said to have illegally accessed ...