Intellectual Property News

Disney has secured victory in a Chinese intellectual property dispute which demonstrates that western brands are having more success in enforcing their rights in China. In the sum...

Justin Bieber and Usher will likely be celebrating today after being successful in a lawsuit which was launched against their song "Somebody to Love" that the pair released in 2010...

Beyonce is facing a lawsuit in the USA over allegations of copyright infringement in her 'Drunk In Love' video. The singer is being sued by Dwayne Walker over the alleged use of th...

On Friday, Arnold J ruled against Duran Duran in a copyright contract dispute with its long-term record producers Gloucester Place Music Ltd (the Claimant). The band assigned the i...

The creators of the successful musical stage show the 'Jersey Boys' have been found guilty of copyright infringement by a court in Nevada, USA. This is a controversial end for the ...

The unofficial anthem to the Civil Rights Movement in the USA, 'We Shall Overcome', has moved closer to entering the public domain after a New York federal judge rejected a publish...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today held in Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht that libraries should be allowed to lend out digital copi...

Collage, a funk band prevalent in the 1980s, are suing Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson for allegedly copying significant parts of their 1983 song 'Young Girls' for use in the duo's 2014...

Uploading digital content onto websites and sharing platforms without a copyright owner's consent, or more likely a license agreement, is likely to breach copyright laws. Copyright...

YouTube has come under fire following flaws in their copyright infringement policy. As the online video sharing platform has grown, the way in which it regulates the content that u...

This American presidential election has been the most lurid in memory and one of the many memorable and controversial moments came when Donald Trump Jr re-tweeted a meme where a bo...

An Italian broadcasting company, successfully brought a claim for copyright infringement against an Italian media conglomerate for extracts of videos posted on a newspaper's websit...