Intellectual Property News

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...

Tom Waits, the famous American actor and singer has become embroiled in a dispute with Bartabas the Furious. For people unaware, Bartabas is a circus star in France and widely thou...

Selling a 'fully loaded' Kodi box which is used to access subscription and pirated content for free may become illegal as a court case concerning the entertainment box is set to pr...

A recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has clarified that businesses and organisations who offer customers and the general public access to their op...

Warner Brothers has, rather humorously, submitted takedown requests to Google asking that their own websites are taken down, claiming copyright infringement.  The requests were fil...

We have previously reported, and indeed it has been reported globally, on the copyright case brought against Led Zeppelin in Los Angeles. Led Zeppelin were successful defending the...

The repeal of section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) has been repealed and the impact of this has been misreported on several news websites. Here we expla...

The UK Intellectual Property office (IPO) has published a summary guidance note on the status of UK/EU intellectual property (IP) rights in the wake of Brexit – to be found here. T...

American documentary photographer, Carol Highsmith, is suing stock image libraries giant Getty Images and its subsidiaries Alamy and PicScout for $1bn (£760m) for demanding payment...

The health risk of counterfeit alcohol is something many people will be aware of, indeed we have reported on it in the past - see article entitled "Fraud and Counterfeiting in the ...

When it comes to intellectual property (IP) infringement, time is most likely to be of the essence as matters can progress very quickly. A matter of hours can make a difference to ...

A German software company is suing the US Navy for copyright infringement in a complaint centering on virtual reality software in a claim estimated to be worth a staggering $596 mi...