The annual HRAFF continues to appeal to audiences with its eclectic mix of confronting and innovative subject matter.

In this podcast series, Australian partners Rebekah Gay and Emma Iles explore a variety of topics, issues and areas of intellectual property law.

In a recent meeting with journalists, Prince said "record contracts are just like – I'm gonna say the word - slavery.

Jay-Z recently sued an Australian online retailer, The Little Homie, claiming IP infringement of his famous song track.

If Ministry of Sound had a crack at Spotify here in Australia, they could have forced Spotify to delete the playlists.

The Belvoir St Theatre secured permission from American musician Taylor Swift to use her smash hit song "Shake It Off".

Key points of the federal budget from the perspective of entertainment. .

The major recording and movie studios (studios) have faced an increasingly serious problem over past few years: they are losing billions of dollars in their sales of CDs and DVDs.

In 1957, a computer composed a string quartet for the first time. Today, we can listen to a new Beatles song, decades after John Lennon passed away...

Kanye is being sued for copyright infringement in respect of his recent hit "Bound 2".

Taylor Swift has been twittersputing with Scooter Braun over the rights to the back catalogue of her master recordings.

The Australian Copyright Amendment Act 2006 was passed on 11 December 2006 as part of the Commonwealth Government’s copyright reforms in response to new challenges posed by emerging technologies and the growth of the digital environment.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Copyright Agency announced $375,000 in additional funding to the arts industry.

Regulation of music streaming companies should bring them in line with the governing of music played on the radio.

When musicians think about intellectual property, patent protection is often overlooked as music and performance are more commonly associated with other intellectual property rights, such as copyright and trade mark protection.

This U.S. case is likely to have a significant influence on the legal interpretation of digital resales in Australia.

Recent reforms to the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (the Act).

Pretty much everything you need to establish a bad faith ground of opposition in Australia.

It seems like every other week there is a new headline about musicians suing one another over some disagreement or grievance, more often than not, concerning unpaid royalties.

This is a robust, efficient tool for Australian copyright owners to tackle the problem of online copyright infringement.