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Jacobsen egg chair A change in copyright law has now come into effect in the UK, which looks to protect classic designs from imitation. The...

Narrow Scope of New York Right of Publicity Statute Favors First Amendment, Not Lindsay Lohan

Readers of the IP Kat blog may remember that actress Lindsay Lohan sued Take-Two Interactive, the maker of the “Grand Theft Auto V” video...

Appeal filed in 'Blurred Lines' case

It comes as no surpise that Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and TI have fied their appeal against the verdict in the 'Blurred Lines'...

Judgment against Cox opens up ISP liability in the USA

Cox Communications has been ordered to pay a $25 million dollar penalty for copyright infringements to the music rights management company B...

Learning copyright long distance: the new edition of a popular course

The 1709 Blog has learned that the 2016-2017   prospectus   of the Distance Learning Programme leading to a Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in ...

APCA Conference: Call for abstracts/papers

The 1709 Blog has learned that the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA), in conjunction with the Law and Technology Center at the Uni...

Do machines work better than humans? You can find out by helping research!

The 1709 Blog has heard about an interesting research project  on automated notice-and-takedown  currently being undertaken at the Universit...

THE COPYKAT - the macaque is back

New research from the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) shows that internet streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix have r...

High noon for Getty Images as a photographer bites back

Image by Carol M Highsmith When LCS, a company acting for stock photographic image agency Alamy , sent photographer Carol M Highsmith a $120...

The abyss that stared back: Vantablack’s copyright conundrum

Vantablack A few months ago our friend Alberto Bellan at the IPKat  discussed  the very question whether it is possible to own a colour, esp...

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U.S. Internet provider Windstream is asking a New York federal court to shield the company from broad piracy accusations. The ISP filed a c...