According to a major new survey on consumer perceptions of intellectual property (IP), two-thirds of consumers have a favorable view of the function that IP plays in their economies.
The findings of WIPO Pulse, the world’s first global survey of general awareness of and attitudes toward intellectual property, are based on responses from 25,000 (non-IP specialists) people aged 18 to 65 years old
The Delhi High Court issued notice to a defendant in response to an application for initial relief in a copyright infringement action involving two popular Indian online portals.
Popular online storytelling platform “Humans of Bombay” (HOB) in India sued another similar platform “People of India” (POI) for copyright infringement accusing the latter of copying its business model and stories.
UK-based Rolls-Royce has filed an intriguing lawsuit in a United States federal district court alleging that a cookware company is infringing on its well-known trademarks and causing its dilution.
The luxury automaker claims that One Source to Market, LLC d/b/a HexClad ("HexClad") is deliberately violating its trademark rights in the well-known and federally registered ROLLS-ROYCE word mark and
You can create all the generative AI art you want, but it won't be covered by copyright regulations.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a federal court determined that AI-generated art cannot be protected by copyrights since copyright law only applies to human people.
After the US Copyright Office twice denied plaintiff Stephan Thaler a copyright for a picture produced by his program, the
Australia-based artist Tank accused Chinese-owned online marketplace Temu of stealing his designs and selling them for a very cheap price.
Tank sells his small canvas print design titled Complexity of Being for A$275 on his website.
On Temu, however, an identical item is being sold by two different dealers for less than A$7, with one of them having already sold 500 copies.
In fact, the de
Over the past few months, content producers, artists, and publishers have accused Google, OpenAI, Meta, and other AI firms such as Midjourney of utilizing their content to train their models without getting permission from or being compensated for doing so.
Last month, Comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, acting on behalf of unspecified other plain
Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein is now facing yet another action for copyright infringement, this time filed in Hong Kong by Swedish retail giant H&M.
H&M accused Shein and Zoetop Business Co, the Hong Kong-based entity previously owned by Shein, of infringing its copyright-protected designs, including swimwear and sweaters.
According to Bloomberg, the lawsuit included details an
Jung Kook, a South Korean singer-songwriter and member of the BTS band, trended on the internet earlier this month when he released his new song Seven, but he has been accused of plagiarism by a popular US-based TikToker who claims that the lyrics are copied from a video post by famous Vietnamese influencer So Y Tiet. Netizens are divided in their reactions.
American influencer Jarred Jermaine,
The Chinese fast fashion giant Shein is facing new copyright infringement allegations emanating from two different nations. The Mexican Government accused the company of copying indigenous art, and a lawsuit has been filed in the United States by three fashion designers blaming the company for stealing their clothing designs.
The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico sent a letter
Twitter has threatened Meta with legal action following the successful launch of Meta's new Twitter rival, Threads.
In a letter dated July 5th, Twitter attorney Alex Spiro accused Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property" in the course of creating Threads.
Spiro claimed that Meta hired dozens of
Coca-Cola Nigeria Plc and it’s local bottler, the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC), have been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, to pay three million Naira (approximately USD 3,875) for copyright infringement of a person’s literary work, despite NBC’s argument that the works in question were not protected by copyright.
The plaintiff, Onilemarun, claimed in the lawsuit t
Renowned music photographer Alec Byrne has sued Getty Images for copyright infringement, saying that the firm sold popular photographs he snapped of bands such as ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, and the Bee Gees without his permission.
The California-based lawsuit, which seeks both damages as well as a permanent injunction, claims that Getty Images violated copyright by selling images captured by Byrne in
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