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 biography of Joseph Goebbels written by Peter Longerich, a professor of modern German history at Royal Holloway College and released by the publisher Random House in 2010 has rec...

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 ...

Online auctions are not a new concept, after all, eBay has had great success in this market place since the mid-1990s when, operating then as Auctionweb, facilitated the sale of th...

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...

A recent decision from the US considers whether Nike infringed US copyright law with its "Jumpman" logo. In Jacobus Rentmeester v Nike Inc., District Judge Michael Mosman granted ...

London fashion designer, Ozwald Boateng, is quoted as saying that: "you cannot have style if you don't have substance", and two-time Wimbledon Ladies Single winner Petra Kvitovia i...

A proposed new EU law could mean that photographers will breach copyright if they publish and sell photographs of famous landmarks which are protected by copyright. If the proposal...

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...

The High Court recently (Friday 19 June 2015) ruled against the UK Government in a Judicial Review brought by three bodies representing music rightsholders. The British Academy of...

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...