There's a new IPO report on designs infringement - game-changer or stating the obvious?

Four years is a long time in politics but not a particularly long time in the land of government reports. Just under four years ago the UK I...

Give Africa its cultural heritage back … But keep its digital cultural heritage?

Should France [and any other colonial power] give back to Africa [or any other former colony] its cultural heritage? ‘Yes’ says the experts’...

Book review: Cross-Border Copyright Licensing: Law and Practice

Copyright is not the simplest of intellectual property rights and when you add licensing to the mix the combination of contract and competit...

Book review: Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader

Copyright has nothing to do with art. Those who believe otherwise are romantic dreamers who overcomplicate this field of law. No doubt you w...

Auctioning Art(ificial Intelligence): The IP implications of Edmond de Belamy

The IPKat has had his portrait painted by the AmeriKat - raising another issue of non-human authorship/ownership In the AmeriKat's free ...

Interested in EU copyright or EU trade secrets? Here are two other events for you, with Kat-discounts

Conference season is in full swing, and our friends at the ERA Academy of European Law wish to let The IPKat know about two events that come...

Discount codes available for IPKat readers interested in copyright or in pharma law

It's conference season also for Kats The IPKat is happy to remind readers about two forthcoming events, devoted to copyright law and to ...

Australia considers reform of its website blocking regime, including possibility to target search engines and new types of injunctions

As readers will know, over the past few years, Australia has considered or has introduced a number of changes to its copyright law. The late...

Book review: Kritika - Essays on Intellectual Property (vol 3)

Are you under the romantic spell of copyright law, so much so that its mutation into an aggressive economic tool protective of investments r...

AIPPI Congress Report 4: A balancing act - copyright versus other rights

The AIPPI Congress started in earnest on Monday morning.  Although many were already lamenting the cruelty of those who decided to hold an I...

Paris tribunal guts Twitter’s T&Cs… including the copyright clause for user-generated content

Have you ever found yourself clicking-- ‘Yes I agree to these terms & conditions’, without actually reading them? Probably yes [everyon...