12/12/2025 2:05:32 PM And the moral of the story is... By Simon Clark Moral rights provide the author of a copyright work with various additional rights, such as the right to be identified as the author, and...
12/10/2025 2:08:26 PM Cloudy Outlook for Copycats? Successful Reputation-based Trade Mark Claim in Lookalike Packaging Dispute: A Summary of the Court of Appeal’s Judgment in Thatchers v Aldi By Tim Heaps Tim Heaps, ‘Cloudy Outlook for Copycats? Successful Reputation-based Trade Mark Claim in Lookalike Packaging Dispute: A Summary of the...
11/14/2025 2:56:15 PM The judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI in tables and bullet points By Toby Headdon The much anticipated High Court judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI has been handed down. As we knew would be the case, with Getty...
11/13/2025 5:22:50 PM Judgment in second-hand software dispute By Anna Cook The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has handed down a judgment on two preliminary issues relating to the reselling of software licences...
8/12/2025 1:06:31 PM US injunction on the Horizon? Sony claims Tencent video game is a “slavish clone” of Sony’s Horizon series By Jake Palmer Sony is suing the Chinese corporation Tencent in a California court, claiming that Tencent’s video game “Light of Motiram” is a “slavish...
7/31/2025 12:19:00 PM Generative AI in context of copyright: knowing your hypersurfaces from your stochastic parrots By Toby Headdon The European Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs has prepared a briefing entitled...
7/10/2025 11:18:34 AM Drafting a copyright policy for the EU AI Act? See the new EU AI Act Code of Practice By Toby Headdon The final version of the EU AI Act Code of Practice for General Purpose AI Models has been released. There are three chapters, namely (1)...
7/2/2025 4:17:28 PM Anthropic, fair use of copyright books, and memorisation By Toby Headdon In a summary judgment order, the US District Court for the Northern District of California considered the use of copyright works by...
6/9/2025 1:46:25 PM AI and copyright finally have their day in Court - Getty v Stability AI By Naomi Foale In what will be a landmark test of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be accommodated within legal frameworks designed for a pre-AI...
4/25/2025 3:11:16 PM It was just an idea: Copyright infringement claims against Mariah Carey and Pitbull By Simon Clark Unless you are a country music fan, perhaps, no doubt the song you immediately think of when the title “All I Want For Christmas Is You”...
4/22/2025 8:52:11 AM Don’t start now: Dua Lipa knocks out copyright claim By Simon Clark Dua Lipa hit the headlines recently following her successful defence of copyright litigation brought against her in the US relating to...
4/11/2025 9:32:28 AM Music, Merchandise, Mayhem: Lady Gaga sued by a Californian surf brand for infringement of its MAYHEM trade mark By Sarah Husslein Kallie Botha A bit of a “mayhem” happening on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean reminds us of the importance of Intellectual Property rights,...