Way more than an everyday interest in IP
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By Ian Ranson and Anna Spies On Wednesday 25 June 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a greatly anticipated copyright decision. In a 6-3 decision, the Court found that the Aereo TV service, which allows subscribers to stream free-to-air television broadcasts over the internet, infringed copyright in television programs. In commentary read more…
Digital technologies and social networking websites have radically altered the nature of news reporting. In particular, news reporting has succumbed to modern society’s need for immediacy. The Internet has given rise to the “citizen journalist”, who is able to upload one-off breaking news items when arriving first upon the scene of an event. Whilst the read more…
Update (8 May 2014): it seems that the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments is still to consider some of the draft regulations. This may make the planned coming into force date of 1 June less certain. See the parliament.uk website here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldordpap.htm Following an extensive public consultation period, the UK Government has issued its final read more…
If you still think that Tweeting is something only birds do, it’s time to fly the coop. Launched in 2006, Twitter is an online social networking site that enables its 645 million registered users worldwide to send and receive 140 character “Tweets”. More than 5700 Tweets are sent every second and up to 75% of read more…
Hustlin’ hip hop rapper Rick Ross, together with music producers “The Runners” are suing shufflin’ electropop rappers LMFAO, Kobalt Music Publishing and Kia Motors America for copyright infringement over 2011 chart topping hit “Party Rock Anthem” from LMFAO’s album “Sorry for Party Rocking”. The Complaint, filed by William L. Roberts, II (aka Rick Ross) read more…
We investigate the District Court of Illinois decision Klinger v Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., confirming that literary characters can be freely used without a licence where copyright has expired on early works in a series. Character elements introduced in later works which are still subject to copyright cannot be used without a licence. read more…
On 14 November 2013, Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found that Google’s “Library Project”, under which it has now scanned tens of millions of books (many of them under copyright) without permission from the rights holders, and made them available in “snippet form”, constituted read more…
The Australian Food and Grocery Council and Australia’s two largest supermarket retailers, Coles and Woolworths, have reached agreement on the terms of a new Food and Grocery Prescribed Industry Code of Conduct (the “Code”). ALDI has thus far refused to sign up to the Code. The new voluntary Code covers several aspects of supermarket regulation read more…
Adding to what was already going to be a big month for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”), Wikileaks recently published a draft of the controversial Intellectual Property Chapter (“IP Chapter”). Arguably “the most significant international commercial agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995”, the TPP is a treaty which aims to read more…