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Australian cosmetics giant MCoBeauty has attracted global attention for its strikingly similar beauty dupes, but the company has kept the details of its product development process out of the spotlight — until now.

Small beauty entrepreneurs say they are struggling to stop copies of their cosmetics being released because they don't have the legal budgets to fight big companies that are self-confessed dupers.

Australian cosmetics company MCoBeauty has become a multi-million-dollar business by "duping" popular beauty products. But its success hasn't been without controversy, after pushing the boundaries of the law too far in the past.

If you're among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms might be training Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools — and if you live in Australia, you can't say no.

The copyright fight between TikTok and Universal Music still has no end in sight, despite the app being forced to make massive changes.

The newspaper is fighting off Wordle "clones" with takedown notices, arguing that numerous games inspired by its mega-popular word-guessing game infringe on its copyright protections.

The trademark for the iconic character has been owned by Warner Brothers since 1984.

Tasmania's national footy team will next month unveil its name, colours, logo, and memberships  but a global corporate behemoth is playing hardball over the rights to the state's famous mascot.

McDonald's loses its case against Hungry Jack's after a court finds the Big Jack burger is not "deceptively similar" to the Big Mac, following a trial in which experts were called in to examine the products.

Tank, who recently spoke out about his designs being sold by the Chinese online retail giant, says Australians have "good standards" and "don't want to see anyone be ripped off for a fair day's work".

Art and legal experts say copyright infringements online are on the rise and one of the contemporary art world's greatest challenges.

Heirs of Marvin Gaye's Lets Get It On co-songwriter are suing UK pop star Ed Sheeran for copyright infringement — so, when does inspiration become copyright infringement?

After having copyright of an 18-page graphic novel rejected because an AI produced the images, artist Kris Kashtanova is testing the limits of what the US Copyright Office considers to be "human authorship".

Do you say "peanut paste" or "peanut butter"? Your answer may depend on where you come from after a historic legal decision banned the use of "peanut butter" in some parts of the country.

AI image generators are learning from human illustrators without their consent. Now artists are speaking out.

We put an AI image generator and a human illustrator head-to-head. Here's what they came up with, but can you tell the difference?

On a spring day in 2013, two Australian soldiers had their photograph taken in Afghanistan. Now the photo has resurfaced in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — all without the soldiers' knowledge.

The rights to Albert Namatjira's artwork are due to return to the public domain in 2029. Lawyers acting for the Namatjira Trust say, the current Copyright Act 'unfairly' impacts families of Indigenous artists.

A law firm is targeting Australia's 70-year limitation on copyright protection after the family of an acclaimed Indigenous artist took 30 years to retrieve the rights to his work — only to lose it again in 12 years.

The unauthorised Hamilton production was rewritten with Christian themes, adding a scene where Alexander Hamilton repents.

A global online marketplace is ordered to pay damages to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club for a second time in Australia over items bearing the club's famous winged skull logo.

In a lawsuit that says Kanye West "has no shame in taking away rights from another artist", the rapper is accused of illegally sampling a 1986 dance track for his song Flowers.

Musician Andy Stone is seeking $US20 million ($27 million) from Mariah Carey, alleging he co-wrote and recorded a festive song of the same name in 1989 and never gave permission for it to be used.

Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie is launching legal action against the Australian Christian Lobby for copyright infringement over a brochure about her votes on the Religious Discrimination Bill.

Sheeran says there's similarities between the two, but insists he hadn't heard Oh Why until long after his album was released.