Intellectual Property News

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...

Samsung and Apple, who together sell approx. 40% of smartphones globally, are about to go head to head in the mobile payments market as Samsung continues to roll out its new paymen...

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...

Youtube has faced further criticism relating to the level of royalty payments it makes to musicians in respect of music video streams. Nikki Sixx, a co-founder of the Motley Crew,...

The former president of Rockstar Games, the multi-national video games developer, has brought a claim against his former employer. Leslie Benzies, former president of Rockstar Nor...

Mossack Fonseca ("Mossack") is a global law firm offering of a range of corporate services including the incorporation of companies in offshore jurisdictions and wealth management....

Agon Limited is the organiser of the World Chess Championship and broadcasts live matches on its website.  In contrast to other sports, the broadcast is of graphic boards showing t...

On 16 March 2016, Advocate General ("AG") Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the Union ("CJEU") delivered an opinion on reference to the CJEU concerning the liability of providers ...

PRS for Music ("PRS"), the collective rights organisation which represents over 115,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK, has launched a second new venture. J...

You may have seen in the news recently that American rapper and record producer Kanye West claims to be in millions of dollars of debt and has even made a bizarre, but seemingly se...

In a blow to the Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, it has been speculated that Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman and fellow front-runner in the presidential elect...

A GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a moving image posted to a web page. A GIF can be very short clip of a film or a mixture of a number of films that play over and over again. ...