Intellectual Property News

Carlos Vasallo is a Spanish actor & producer, and is one of the most prominent players in the Mexican and Latin American film industry. He and his various companies own the rights...

MindGeek is a Canadian company that operates a number of brands and websites operating in the adult industry, as well running a number of adult film production companies and agenci...

James Charles is a YouTube influencer who rose to fame after launching his own YouTube channel posting makeup tutorials. In 2019 Charles was reported to have a net worth of $12 mi...

Nintendo has successfully had taken down a lewd image which depicting well-known ‘Super Mario’ bad guy Bowser with engaged in sexual activity with another character. What has c...

UFC president Dana White is no stranger to strong rhetoric and hyperbole. The build up to UFC 257 was no different, with White passionately denouncing pirate streams and even goin...

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...

In summer, Triller, the social media video making app, filed an infringement claim against its rival TikTok, and its parent company, ByteDance. In its claim, Triller alleges the co...

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...

EU Advocate General Szpunar has recently advised the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) that embedding a copyright work into a secondary website from another website re...

As the new Premier League season draws ever closer, competing parties are wrangling over how fans will get to watch matches. With hundreds of thousands of fans that would usuall...

Formula 1 has had its fair share of copying rows in the past. Now, however, there is a new lilt to the copying: the copied and the copier are on the same side of the arguments! ...

The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") has caused widespread fear amongst small and big business alike as stories of those falling foul of the regulati...