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The world's first entirely AI-made music video is here and has sent understandable shockwaves through the industry. Music lawyer Halina Wielogorska takes a closer look at this cutting-edge...

The UK's 2022 ivory trading ban, currently limited to elephant ivory, will expand in 2024 to include other species like hippos and whales. The Ivory Act prohibits selling, loaning, or facilitating ivory transactions, even internationally, with stringent rules for compliance and exemptions.

New rules under Appendix Long Residence, effective from April 11, 2024, require a one-year tenure on current immigration status for ILR applications, with stricter criteria on absences and overstays. Compliance is crucial to avoid licence revocation.

The UK's Global Talent visa route has expanded to include commercial designers, offering a prestigious immigration pathway for professionals excelling in graphic design, brand design, product design, and related fields. This new category, endorsed by the Design Business Association, provides opportunities for recognized design talent to work and settle in Britain.

Can you get a patent for AI? In particular can you get one for an invention concerning the use of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)? To date, most practitioners would have had serious doubts due to patent...

The digital age has made films, TV shows, and music instantly accessible online, but much of this content is shared illegally without copyright owners' consent. Criminal prosecutions for online piracy can result in substantial fines and even imprisonment, though enforcement typically targets distributors rather than individual consumers.

The text for the much anticipated Article 13 of the European Copyright Directive (the "Directive") has finally been agreed upon as of 13 February.

In honour of World Photography Day, we consider how copyright affects photography and look at some famous copyright disputes.

For over a decade, the courts in the UK have, through their case law, been developing and adapting website blocking orders (WBOs) - a form of injunctive relief - as a means of ...

In the sixties and seventies bands were formed with much less formality than they are these days. Recording royalties were a major source of income and bands with proven success commanded large advances and increasingly generous royalty shares.

On 4 March 2024, Apple was fined €1.84bn by the European Commission for abusing its dominant position in respect of the distribution of music streaming...

As copyright law protects the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves, courts across the world must deliberate where to draw the copyright protection line in the continuum of ideas and expression.

Internet piracy is a major threat to all businesses whose success depends on controlling copyright works. Hana Ferraris outlines mistakes made by the music industry in dealing with Internet theft and shows how you can learn from them to prevent your own works being copied.</P>

I mentioned in a previous Q&A in this series that we are hearing buzzwords in the art industry during this pandemic, and unfortunately one of those buzzwords that is making many in the art world

Jo Soar, Lesley Harper and Caroline Twist are our Licensing Dream Team after moving to Rothera Bray en masse in May 2024. They are based at our Nottingham office in the Lace Market...

In the last three years endorsements for Global Talent by the Arts Council have more than doubled, rising from just 214 in 2018 to almost 500 endorsements given in 2020.

The article outlines the UK's Global Talent route, detailing its endorsement process, benefits, and eligibility criteria for talented individuals in various fields, emphasizing its flexibility and potential for settlement.