Intellectual Property News

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 ...

Most readers will be familiar with the 'too good to be true' offers available on some online selling platforms (think Ebay, Amazon, Alibaba et al) that make you consider whether th...

How damages are calculated in filesharing cases has proved to be very difficult and controversial.  Some guidance on this has been given recently by the Bundesgerichtshof, the Germ...

Jawbone has filed a second legal complaint against its rival Fitbit in California, this time for patent infringement. In the suit Jawbone has accused Fitbit of infringing three of ...

Artist Richard Prince has opened an exhibition named "New Portraits" in an art gallery in the US. The art works displayed are re- photographed Instagram images taken from the artis...