News on Intellectual Property Rights

A picture taken by a money has erupted into a transatlantic copyright row and brought focus on the world’s largest database of public domain images.

Online fan communities create fascinating and in-depth work based on what they love - but are they in the clear when it comes to copyright?

As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) prepares to consult interest groups on copyright policy during the course of 2015, Elena Cooper takes stock on the current US approach, as presented in a briefing by USPTO’s Chief Policy Officer, Shira Perlmutter.

A judgement handed down in the US Supreme Court on 25 June 2014 raises a looming threat of new liabilities for the nascent cloud computing industry.

An expert working group has presented the concept of a new system of “registration directory services”. The plan is to store personal information of domain name registrants centrally – much to the dissent of privacy advocates.

Let's Play is a video showing someone playing a videogame. This, we know. What is less known, is that game developers are not all amused by the growing phenomenon. The copyright bell is ringing.

Flappy Bird , Threes , Ridiculous Fishing - three mobile games and three high profile examples of the games industry's relationship with ‘clones’.

The District Court of Munich ruled on February 25 that YouTube cannot blame German royalty collecting society GEMA for content blocked on its platform. The Google subsidiary, according to the Chamber, has violated the German Act on unfair competition by posting the well-known notices “Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because