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Intellectual property

July 2024

  • A general photo of Geelong Grammar school.

    King Charles’s Australian alma mater unsuccessfully sought to trademark name ‘deceptively similar’ to other brands

    ‘Mere existence of a reputation’ not enough to justify Geelong grammar trademarking ‘Timbertot’, agency finds

June 2024

  • ozempic

    ‘Skinny jabs’: weight-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge

    Alternatives to costly Wegovy and Saxenda will make such treatments more widely available worldwide
  • Mariah Carey on a red carpet

    Music labels sue AI song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

    Software steals songs to ‘spit out’ similar tunes, lawsuit says, asking for $150,000 a work in compensation
  • Close-up of a Big Mac

    Big Mac v Supermac’s: McDonald’s loses EU trademark fight

    Ruling by European court of justice ends long-running legal tussle between Irish chain and global rival

May 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

    John Naughton
    OpenAI’s unsubtle approximation of the actor’s voice for its new GPT-4o software was a stark illustration of the firm’s high-handed attitude

April 2024

  • City of London File police were involved in an international operation to raid the ‘counterfeit shopping agent’ Pandabuy in China

    Pandabuy: police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

  • Tim Clare

    ‘Cooperative Scrabble’ won’t ruin the game – the real threat would be Scrabble: the movie

    Tim Clare

March 2024

  • Marvin Gaye

    Collection of unreleased Marvin Gaye songs found in Belgium

  • Stelios Haji-Ioannou sitting smiling on a chair for a formal photographic portrait

    Observer business profile
    ‘It’s for the judge to decide’: Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s battle to defend his Easy brand

February 2024

  • Winners from AI fashion week 2023: designs by (left to right) Paatiff, Matilde Mariano and OPE

    How AI is ‘amplifying creativity’ in the fashion world

  • Creators say their material is being used to train language models, earning AI firms vast sums of money

    UK ministers urged to protect creatives whose work is used by AI firms

January 2024

  • An attractive view over hills to the sea in summer in the style of David Hockney, with red hues in the foreground and blues and greens on the horizon

    Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney

  • ChatGPT logo

    Back UK creative sector or gamble on AI, Getty Images boss tells Sunak

  • Tom Lamont’s old toys lined up against a blue background: Captain America, Skeletor, Swamp Thing, Chainsaw from Robocop, Matt Tracker from Mask, Lothar from Defenders of the Earth, Mother-1 from the Bionic Six, Mekaneck from He-Man and Crusty Crab from Battle Beasts

    First Barbie then … Boglins? My quest to find a superstar in my bag of old toys

  • A T-shirt with a VTR LND slogan

    German anti-fascists aim to trademark Nazi slogans to ‘hit them where it hurts’

December 2023

  • A man draws a cartoon character.

    Copyright for original Mickey Mouse persona to run out 1 January 2024

    Steamboat Willie, created by Walt Disney, to enter public domain after 95 years – taking earliest Minnie with him
  • People wearing frog suits

    Chinese dancing frog goes viral doing the worm

    ‘Frog seller’ trend sparks debate on intellectual property amid concerns over copyright infringement
  • Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author

    Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

November 2023

  • Mariah Carey performing All I Want for Christmas Is You in 2016.

    Mariah Carey sued for copyright infringement over All I Want for Christmas Is You

    Carey faces second lawsuit from songwriter Andy Stone over huge holiday hit, after he filed to dismiss his own 2022 claim

October 2023

  • Beyoncé, pictured performing in London in May during her Renaissance world tour.

    Beyoncé and Neil Young song fund Hipgnosis slashes amount it expects from royalties

    Share price hits record low as London-listed company says it will not pay shareholders a dividend
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