Jan 18, 2023 Getty Images taking UK action against Stability AI for copyright infringement in AI training By Sarah Chittock This is the first major IP dispute in the UK concerning AI that has been trained on unlicensed creative works, and it will be an...
Nov 14, 2022 New "blue tick" procedure on Twitter leads to increase in brand impersonation accounts By Megan Rannard World Trademark Review (WTR) has been reporting on the changing procedures at Twitter and in particular, the new system under which...
Nov 04, 2022 Predicted "longest ever" recession indicates a need for businesses to prepare for medium term pain By Ed Round The news that UK interest rates are to rise significantly, in the face of poor economic prospects for up to two years, means that...
Oct 26, 2022 The impact of Web3 on intellectual property in the film and television industries By Mike Shaw Web3, the Metaverse and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have received considerable media attention over the last year, and are still clearly...
Oct 20, 2022 Reinventing The Wheel By Sarah Chittock Yesterday I attended the MIA's Motorsport Engineering and Technology Show at Silverstone, and got to grips with a variety of motorsport...
Oct 14, 2022 What AI can tell us about human nature By Marcela Carvalho What does it mean to be intelligent and what are the differences between intelligence and consciousness? How can you make AI more human?...
Oct 12, 2022 Bonfire of the vanities? By Simon Portman As some purchasers of NFTs have found out to their cost, all they were buying was a digital certificate of ownership in the underlining...
Oct 11, 2022 Italian gallery sues Jean Paul Gaultier over use of Botticelli images By Sarah Chittock The Uffizi Galleries of Florence houses an outstanding collection of paintings and sculptures, one of the most famous of which is perhaps...
Sep 21, 2022 Art contest won by AI generated image By Thomas Storey Aritifical intelligence image generators such as DALL-E 2 and NightCafe have become synonymous with questions of copyright, and a growing...
Aug 22, 2022 Nordic company buys Norse-based mythology By Simon Portman Swedish game firm the Embracer Group has acquired Middle-earth Enterprises, the holding company that controls a huge amount of...
Jul 25, 2022 FC Barcelona to auction Johan Cruyff’s “Phantom Goal” in the Metaverse By Mike Shaw We have recently seen a spate of non-fungible token (NFT) offerings related to the sports and entertainment fields, with many sports...
Jul 19, 2022 Will the next "Rocky" film be Stallone v. Winkler? By Simon Portman Sylvester Stallone is being quite vocal about the fact he thinks he and his family aren't getting a fair cut of the rights from the...