The High Court has recently attempted to clarify the extremely complicated area of law in Australia dealing with the overlap between the Copyright and Designs Acts ...

Patrick Cariou’s lawsuit against artist Richard Prince for wrongfully appropriating his photographs of Rastafarians into new artworks provided a benchmark for the role of copyright in contemporary art ...

Recently, a track called "Heart on My Sleeve" by an unknown TikTok user named Ghostwriter (or "@ghostwriter977") appeared out of nowhere and went viral across various social media platforms, reaching ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. These days, art theft isn’t restricted to elaborate heists staged in a museum or gallery. With design inspiration being copied or ...

On January 29, 2025, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) released Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability, its second report on ...

The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") recently ruled that design works must be protected by copyright in the EU regardless of their country of origin. This decision ...

“The right-to-repair movement isn’t based on a preexisting right; it’s instead asking lawmakers to create a new right at the expense of the existing rights of IP owners.” – Devlin Hartline The House ...

“Expect further developments in the passage of the designs package next year, as the details are debated in the European Parliament.” In this annual review, IPWatchdog summarizes trademark, design and ...

Legislators and enforcers of IP rights worldwide have struggled with one eternal question of where to draw the line between the overlapping areas of protection afforded by copyright law and design law ...