19 Mar JUDGE ORDERS FRONT PAGE STATEMENT IN DUCHESS OF SUSSEX CASE

Posted at 18:40h in Copyright & IP Rights

The Judge in the case brought by the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, against The Mail on Sunday over its publication of a letter to her father has ordered the newspaper to publish a Statement on its front page referring to her victory in her copyright claim, following his decision to grant her summary judgment....

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29 Jan DUCHESS OF SUSSEX SEEKS SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

Posted at 17:03h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

Last week a two-day hearing between the Duchess of Sussex and the Mail on Sunday’s owner, Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), was held to decide whether the judge could deliver a ‘summary judgment’ now without the need for a full-scale trial later in the year....

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15 Jan NETFLIX REACHES SETTLEMENT ON ENOLA HOLMES’ SHERLOCK LAWSUIT

Posted at 20:01h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

Netflix has settled the lawsuit with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate that claimed Enola Holmes‘ Sherlock character was a copyright infringement....

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15 Jan OPERA SINGER WINS COURT BATTLE OVER FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS AUTHORSHIP

Posted at 19:59h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

Opera singer Julia Kogan has won a court battle over the authorship of Florence Foster Jenkins and will now receive a co-writing credit on the 2016 film starring Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep....

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29 Sep WIN FOR NICKI MINAJ IN TRACY CHAPMAN COPYRIGHT CLAIM

Posted at 20:08h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

A judge has sided with Nicki Minaj over one aspect of her copyright dispute with Tracy Chapman finding that taking and using samples of Chapman’s song Baby Can I Hold You in the studio, to create a new track, did not amount to copyright infringement because it was “fair use”....

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11 Sep PRESIDENT TRUMP SUED BY EDDY GRANT OVER UNLICENSED USE OF ‘ELECTRIC AVENUE’

Posted at 20:10h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

Eddy Grant is the latest music star to sue the Trump campaign over unauthorised use of his 1982 song Electric Avenue....

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28 Aug CLAIM THAT STAR TREK INFRINGED VIDEOGAME CONCEPT DISMISSED

Posted at 20:17h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

The dismissal of a claim by a videogame developer that Star Trek: Discovery unlawfully infringed upon a videogame developer’s concept has been upheld by a US appeal court....

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27 Mar JUDGE OVERTURNS $3M DARK HORSE COPYRIGHT AWARD IN WIN FOR KATY PERRY

Posted at 15:50h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

The US District Court has ruled that Katy Perry’s song Dark Horse did not infringe copyright in Joyful Noise by rapper Flame, overturning an earlier jury verdict....

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17 Jan ANTIQUE MAPMAKER SUES NETFLIX AND AMAZON OVER BRUCE WILLIS FILM

Posted at 15:55h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

An antique mapmaker is suing Random House Films for copyright infringement after a map he made of the Caribbean island of Curacao was used as a prop in the 2012 comedy-drama ‘Lay the Favourite’ without his permission....

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01 Nov NEW TRIAL ORDERED IN SCREENPLAY AUTHORSHIP DISPUTE

Posted at 16:10h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

The Court of Appeal has set aside a judgment which found that the then-girlfriend of the writer of Hollywood comedy drama Florence Foster Jenkins was not its joint author and has ordered a new trial in the case....

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18 Oct JERRY SEINFELD SUCCESSFUL IN COMEDIANS IN CARS CLAIM

Posted at 16:12h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has seen off a copyright infringement claim by an erstwhile collaborator over the rights to his successful Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee....

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13 Sep PASSING OFF – ARIANA GRANDE SUES FOREVER 21 OVER LOOKALIKE CAMPAIGN

Posted at 16:25h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

Ariana Grande has launched a claim against fast fashion retailer Forever 21, alleging they used her likeness in their branding to claim a false affiliation with the star. Grande is seeking at least $10m (£8.2m) in damages for violation of her right to publicity, false endorsement, trademark infringement and copyright infringement. The claim alleges that Forever 21 sought to partner with Grande in December 2018 but the star refused to agree a deal. The retailer then launched a campaign which used...

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13 Sep NETFLIX FYRE FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY FACES MULTIPLE COPYRIGHT CLAIMS

Posted at 16:23h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

A Netflix documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened about the failed Fyre Music Festival is facing a third copyright infringement claim in the US after using footage filmed at the event by a festival goer without his permission....

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28 Jun BARRY MANILOW WINS COPYRIGHT BATTLE OVER FILM RIGHTS

Posted at 16:35h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

The management company of singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has been granted summary judgment on a copyright claim over the rights in two live concert films brought by the film company which worked on them....

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18 Jan claim that Ed Sheeran copied Let’s Get It On will go to trial

Posted at 17:50h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts

A New York judge has ruled that a claim against Ed Sheeran over alleged similarities between his hit Thinking Out Loud and Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On should go before a jury, because material facts are in dispute....

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