05 Feb, 2024 AI and copyright: The House of Lords has published the outcome of its inquiry on the lawful and ethical use of copyright works and data in LLMs By Ally Clark Duncan Calow [Note that this blog post has been updated on 8 February 2024 to reflect the publication of the UK Government’s response to the ‘A...
10 Jan, 2024 The ending of copyright protection – what happens next? By Hannah Potter Ally Clark Alex Lowe Duncan Calow +1 more... Show less Wishing you a belated Happy New Year or, as any particularly passionate intellectual property lovers may say: Happy Public Domain Day! As...
22 Sep, 2023 AI. Who owns what. By Alex Lowe A strange thing happened to me recently: a whole table of my friends wanted me to talk about case law and legislation. Maybe it was the...
11 Jul, 2023 Sporting brands: About the sport or the athlete? By Claire Sng Grace Pigott A new report published this month from the Women’s Sport Trust shows the positive impact and significant awareness being generated by...
26 Apr, 2023 Wagatha Christie™ By Duncan Calow Aminat Molade Earlier this month, Rebecca Vardy announced that she had obtained a registered trade mark for WAGATHA CHRISTIE. Comedian Dan Atkinson...
24 Apr, 2023 IP ownership and hybrid working – useful case commentary from the English High Court By Claire Sng Gurpreet Duhra Shefali Pandhi Hybrid and fully remote work arrangements have blurred lines and shifted norms around how and where work is performed. These changes...
28 Mar, 2023 Will advertising goods or services with a rude name get you into trouble with the UK advertising regulator? By Elinor Cavil Claire Sng What did the ASA have to say? A press ad featured in The Sunday Times Culture magazine was the subject of a UK Advertising Standards...
23 Mar, 2023 Art(ificial intelligence) imitates life: IP infringement risks presented by Generative AI By Eloise Toner Coran Darling David Alexandre Alejandro González Vega +1 more... Show less In recent weeks, generative AI platforms, such as Chat GPT-4, DALL.E 2, and Stable Diffusion, have made headlines for a number of...
15 Mar, 2023 Royalties, boilerplate and marmalade sandwiches By Alex Lowe The 'TLDR' takeaway: A well-drafted audit clause is essential for the proper functioning of a royalty provision (particularly if the...
25 Jan, 2023 IP OWNERSHIP – Part 2 – employee generated IP – some useful factors for employers to consider By Claire Sng Elizabeth Bingham On Friday 23 December 2022, the UK Patents Court handed down an early Christmas present: a 651 paragraph judgment on the topic of IP...
23 Jan, 2023 What do John Cage, Zippy and Mr Humphries have in common? By Alex Lowe Ally Clark Sam Churney Here's wishing you a belated Happy New Year from three of DLA Piper’s copyright enthusiasts. As many readers of this blog will know, 1...
08 Mar, 2022 The winning formula? Promotion of sports through OTT content By Matt Rozario Valiant Warzecha How did you get into Formula 1?Well there’s this Netflix show…In 2018, Formula 1 entered into an arrangement with Netflix that allowed...
18 Jan, 2022 Crypto group shamed for spending $3m on ‘Dune’ book, mistakenly believing it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs By Nick Fitzpatrick This is an interesting article which dramatically highlights the need for due diligence on what you are actually acquiring when you make...
04 Nov, 2021 An unreal issue: managing IP in the metaverse By Anthony Lloyd Jessie Buchan Edmond Lau What is the metaverse and why is it important? The metaverse: the next generation successor to the mobile internet. Made up of shared,...
21 Oct, 2021 EU Artificial Intelligence Act and IP Rights By Gabriele Engels Hot on the heels of such passionately debated legislation as the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and the General Data...