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On the 14th of December 2015, the Office for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) published a report stating that in the EU games and toy sector, 12.3% of sales are lost due to counterfeiting.

The copyright to the song ‘Happy Birthday to You' had been claimed by the company Warner/Chappell Music Inc in the 1980's.

Back in the year 2000, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) designated the 26th of April to be marked as World Intellectual Property Day.

The European Union has recently unveiled a planned reform for the 28 Member State’s digital market aimed at boosting ecommerce and overhauling Europe’s telecoms market.

The European Parliament has ended a two-year legislative process by adopting the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market.

Google has recently stated that it intends on offering legal support to certain content creators who upload videos on YouTube and are subsequently stuck with copyright claims.

The intellectual property sector is also rapidly expanding in Malta, thus requiring further action from the government's side.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has recently confirmed a sentence of the Court of First Instance handed to a woman who had been conditionally discharged over copyright infringement...

The US Court of Appeals ruled last Monday the 12th of May that software source code can qualify for copyright protection in certain circumstances.

The intellectual property sector is also rapidly expanding in Malta, thus requiring further action from the government's side.

On 11 June 2020, the Court of Justice of the EU issued a preliminary ruling concerning C-833/18 - Brompton Bicycle v. Chedech/Get2Get, where it provided that copyright protection may also subsist

In today's interconnected world, where global challenges like poverty, inequality, climate change, and healthcare persist, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as a blueprint for creating...

AI produced text is one the most trending topics of the moment, so we asked OpenAI's GPT text tool to write an article about the legal implications of AI produced text...

In the CJEU case of VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (C-392/19), the CJEU was asked to rule on the question of whether EU Member States, by means of the Copyright Directive (2001/29), ...

Article 59(1)(b) of the European Trademark Regulations provides that a trademark may be invalidated on grounds of bad faith i.e. where the trademark applicant would have applied for a TM in bad faith.

The EU Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market (the "Copyright Directive") reached an important milestone on the 26th of March 2019.

Malta has been gripped in ACTA fever, or rather by ACTA hayfever. I have listened to all sides of the debate, read the Agreement time and time again, made my own comparisons, thoughts and arrived at my own conclusions.