UK

Tacos with a Side of Cease and Desist

CMA Releases Report on Music Streaming Market

The WaterRower: A Work of Art “Oar” Not?

Four Tet’s Successful Royalty Battle: Are Changes Coming in the Music Industry for Royalty Payment?

The Iconic ‘Del Boy’ Evolves UK Copyright Law

UK Court Finds Use Of Ring Surveillance Equipment Infringes Privacy Rights Associated With The General Data Protection Regulation

A Lesson for Canada? New Report Deems UK’s Patent Box a Failure

Resurrecting Royalties: U.K. Authors to be Paid Royalties on Second-hand Book Sales

Infringement City Blues (Make Ed Sheeran Wanna Holler)

Flanked! Two Ed Sheeran songs now face copyright infringement actions. One alleges Sheeran’s “Photograph” copied a song called “Amazing” written for X Factor winner Matt Cardle. Richard Busch—also counsel for the Marvin Gaye estate in the “Blurred Lines” case—filed in June on behalf of “Amazing”’s copyright owner, HaloSongs, Inc. Another, filed in August on behalf […]

What Would You Do For a KitKat Bar?

Is there any chocolate bar more recognizable than the KitKat? Maybe, but that does not make it special according to the recent decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in Société des Produits Nestlé SA v Cadbury UK Ltd [Nestlé]. Nestlé has produced the KitKat chocolate bar for over 80 years. In 2010, the company filed an application […]