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Pursuant to copyright law in both the UK and Ireland, the creator of a work has a number of exclusive rights that they can exercise to restrict others from using their work.

Football Dataco Ltd and Others v Yahoo! UK Ltd and Others was referred to the ECJ by the UK Court of Appeal.

The initial acquirer of a copy of software, in some circumstances, may resell that copy and his licence to a new acquirer.

Rights holders are using increasingly novel methods to protect their copyright from the scourge of global internet piracy.

The Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 ("the Act") came into full operation on 2 December 2019.

The EU General Court (Court) has held that the Steam online gaming platform for PC video games, operated by Valve Corporation (Valve), along with five PC video game publishers, infringed EU competition...

Recently, the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (the "EU Copyright Directive") was approved by a narrow majority of the EU Parliament. The EU Copyright Directive is designed

In a landmark judgment, the English Hig Court has ordered the UK’s main internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites selling counterfeit goods

While it may not be the first thing that grabs your attention when starting up a new company or business, every start-up should consider intellectual property ("IP") protection at an early stage.

This is the first occasion that a court ordered or "common law" graduated response system has been imposed anywhere in the world.

Ireland joined the European wide movement to digitise cultural material when the European Union (Certain permitted uses of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 came into effect.

The High Court of England and Wales has recently examined the enforcement options for protecting the right to collect and process live betting data for horseracing.

From August 2025, the European Commission will require providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models to publish a summary of the content used to train those models.

Welcome to our August 2025 edition of Legal News.

Whether or not the public lending of e-books is treated, in EU copyright law, in the same manner as the public lending of traditional books has been a relatively contentious topic among EU Member States.

As we outlined previously here, Ireland has become the seventh EU Member State to implement the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market ((EU) 2019/790) (CDSM Directive) on 19 November 2021.

McCambridge Ltd. has sued Brennans Bread makers claiming that they have deliberately copied the packaging it uses on its brown bread product.