The rise in copyright lawsuits is hitting the music industry hard, with some artists and songwriters spending large sums of money protecting themselves with insurance policies. The recent Ed Sheeran copyright case over his song “Shape of You” has been the latest to hit the...
In recent years, there have been a number of high-profile copyright decisions deciding that popular, original songs are in fact copies. Most notably in the US, Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” was found to infringe the copyright in Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit song “Got To...
The case between Meghan Markle and The Daily Mail has been widely reported in recent months, as Meghan Markle took the newspaper to court over its publication of the letter that she wrote to her father. Although the majority of the case concerned the misuse...
On 28 July 2016 UK copyright law changed; the change in the law extends the term of copyright protection for industrially applied designs (i.e. artistic works where 50 or more copies are produced) from 25 years to the lifetime of the artist or designer plus...
