Copyright offers crucial protection to individuals and businesses alike enabling them to own and exploit their creative works. This might include photographs, articles, software, website designs, films, music and a range of ot...
Nowadays there is increasing awareness about the value of âintellectual propertyâ and brands. Yet âintellectual propertyâ is a term that alienates many people because they donât understand what it means or how it applies to th...
Websites, iPad apps, accounting systems, and the software running on your home wireless router are all the result of an often considerable investment of time, money, skill and effort. In return, their creators are typically ...
Intellectual property is the cornerstone of many modern businesses, and the law offers various mechanisms to safeguard know how, creativity, ingenuity and investment in reputation and marketing. A significant complexity when...
The Pirate Bay has been thrown into the limelight a number of times, not least following a legal battle over copyright infringement which resulted in jail sentences for the four site operators in April 2009 (though at the tim...
Azrights Solicitors is the first UK law firm to devise a white labelled trade mark registration service for other law firms. The Azrights solution is completely seamless, giving remote access to client files. As far as the clien...
In 2009 there was a controversial view that âPrivacy is dead and social media hold smoking gunâ. Essentially, the author presents a somewhat pessimistic view of Privacyâs position in the public sphere. He considers it to be a choice...
Apple has recently filed a patent for an infra red device, which can disable your iphone from taking pictures or recording footage during a concert. This is an interesting development...
The debate over file sharing is increasingly being presented as a stand off between property rights and civic rights, as the new opinion from the Advocate General, adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), now demo...
