July 31, 2009

The House of Lords’ decision yesterday that Matthew Fisher’s 38 year delay in claiming a share of copyright royalties should not prevent him claiming future royalties has been widely reported.

It is interesting therefore to focus here...

July 27, 2009

Accentuate the positive and minimize the negative is the way to manage reputations online.  For a good example of what NOT TO DO consider Lifestyle Lift. This facelift company was recently fined $300,000 by New York State for flooding ...

June 23, 2009

Have you ever seen cheap imitation perfumes on sale at market stalls or on the internet?  The ones that tend to look similar in their packaging or bottling to other up-market products? Well according to a recent decision of the Europea...

November 21, 2009

Head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Jim Gamble, is not convinced as the main social networking sites lag behind in providing sufficient security for our teens against the occurrence of cyber-bullying (pleas...

November 18, 2009

An interactive workshop to be delivered by Shireen Smith, Solicitor at Azrights. Venue: British Library (follow link)

Building on Outstanding Online Brand – Essential Guide to Branding and Commissioning a Web Presence – British Li...

September 26, 2009

Brevity might be the soul of wit, but it’s also the heart of social networking phenomenon Twitter.

Twitter is built around the concept of micro-blogging, that is allowing its members to post just about anything as long the post s...

April 4, 2009

Shireen Smith of Azrights Chaired this CLT conference in London and presented a talk on:

“Introduction to Trade Marks and Online Branding”

November 3, 2009

In the murky waters of the internet lie many threats to brands and their value. From webscraping to cybersquatting this conference analyses the problems and pitfalls and offers a range of proactive and reactive approaches to brand p...