Intellectual Property News

Irishman Roy Barry, adamant that talent show "The Voice" is based on his idea, has vowed to bring claim in the Dutch Courts against the Dutch producers of The Voice, Talpa Media, a...

On 1 January 2016, Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', will enter the public domain in Europe as the 70 year after the death of the author of that work copyright protection ends. Nazi pro...

'Happy Birthday To You' is one of the most popular songs in history so much so that the Guinness Book of Records claims it as the most recognisable song in the English language. O...

A number of pubs across Tyneside and the rest of the UK have been ordered to pay thousands of pounds to the Premier League for unauthorised screening of live Premier League footbal...

Background  One year ago the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) launched a new licensing scheme aimed at opening access to more than 91 million creative works who...

Pop star Taylor Swift is being accused of stealing the words to her hit song "Shake It Off". As a result she is being sued for approximately $42m (£24m). U.S. based R&B singer Jes...

Section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 limits the length duration of copyright protection for industrially applied artistic works – those created by industrial p...

Copyright does not subsist in a toy of the world's 'cutest dog', a Pomeranian named Boo, according to The District Court in The Hague. Buddy Boo Inc. is an American Company founde...

Jay Z has come out of a week-long copyright infringement trial smiling. The rapper's 1999 hit Big Pimpin' incorporated a sample from a 1957 song by the late Baligh Hamdi, whose Nep...

There has been a lot of deliberation and opinion in recent days following the decision of the CJEU in the Safe Harbour case C362/14, which involved shared personal data between the...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been threatened by Aerosmith in relation to its song 'Dream On', which Trump has used at campaign events, apparently without perm...

Frequently only the arguments and evidence which lead to the outcome at trial are reported. It is not often possible to look in detail at those cases which settle, because the agre...