Intellectual Property News

Following the announcement on Monday that Donald Trump had officially been chosen as the Republican party's nominee for president his wife, Melania, delivered a speech at the Repub...

It has been widely reported that the Bombay-born British artist Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to use the unique Vantablack pigment, which is the blackest shade of blac...

The UK IPO has published research which shows that online copyright infringement has fallen for the first time since the rise of the internet. The IPO has attributed this, at least...

A founding member of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has been ordered to pay 350,000 euros, by a court in Helsinki (Finland), to Claimant record labels including Sony, Universal, Warner a...

Unless you have been living in a vacuum you will be aware that on 23 June, the UK voted to leave the European Union (Brexit). This decision will have a significant impact on the in...

Walt Disney has sued three Chinese firms for copying elements of its "Cars" animation and hit film(s). The Claim is brought against Blue MTV, media company Bejing G-Point and PPLiv...

We have previously reported here on the copyright infringement trial in Los Angeles concerning the legendary rock group Led Zeppelin and their hit song 'Stairway to Heaven'. The ju...

Members of Led Zeppelin have appeared in court in the US to deny copying another song in their hit song 'Stairway To Heaven'. Background Zeppelin band members, Jimmy Page and Rober...

Axl Rose, frontman of the band Guns N' Roses, has been reported (see the Inquisitr or Torrentfreak articles here) as having sent take-down notices to websites, including Google aff...

British singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran has been hit with a $20 million (£13.8 million) copyright infringement suit by two California-based musicians, in a dispute centering on his h...

In the US, Madonna has successfully defended a claim of copyright infringement relating to the song Vogue. The claimant, VMG Salsoul LLC, alleged that a fraction of a second (0.23...

German electro-pop heavyweights, Kraftwerk, have failed in their attempt to prevent a rapper using a two-second sample of music from their hit, Metal auf Metal. Originally formed ...