Intellectual Property News

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter who is most famous for her hits “Fast Car” and “Give Me One Reason”. Back in 2018, Chapman brought a copyright claim against Nicki Mi...

Eric Arthur Blair, more commonly known as George Orwell, was a British journalist and author who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century in Animal Farm & Nineteen E...

Neil Young, the Canadian-American musician, has sold the rights to his music in a staggering £110 million deal. Young rose to fame in 1960’s after forming rock band Buffalo Spr...

AliBaba has, for a long time now, struggled to deal with intellectual property infringements perpetuated on its platform. It followed Amazon’s lead in setting up a system for righ...

Neil Young is a Canadian-American singer songwriter and musician who’s most famous works include “Old Man” & “The Needle and the Damage Done”. Young first complained about Tru...

Universal Music Group (“UMG”) has acquired the rights to Bob Dylan’s entire catalogue of music. The acquisition is thought to be one of UMG’s biggest by value, estimated at somewhe...

Last month we reported on a copyright claim that was brought by tattoo artist Catherine Alexander, whose clientele include renowned WWE superstar Randy Orton. Alexander brought a ...

Record labels within the music industry are beginning to crack down on the infringing use of their artists’ materials by football teams of the National Football League (“NFL”) and ...

The saga between Taylor Swift and American music mogul entrepreneur, Scooter Braun, has just hit a new level of hostility. For those that don’t know, Swift and Braun have had a...

Netflix’s new mystery movie Enola Holmes has not pleased all of its audience, namely the estate of the Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The estate filed a copyright ...

Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired the copyright in around 33,000 songs including a 50% share in All I Want For Christmas Is You, and Let It Go (from the Frozen soundtrack). Hipg...

Howard Schatz is an award winning American photographer, who on Wednesday 21 October 2020 filed a complaint at the Central District of California against Verizon Communications. I...