Intellectual Property News

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...

The Copyright Tribunal has ruled on the yearly royalty rate to be paid by ITV Network Ltd, under its licence from PRS for Music (PRS) for the use of musical copyright works in tele...

Audience members ruining concerts and plays by recording them on their smartphones could soon be a thing of the past after Apple successfully patented a technology that blocks the ...

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...