For many South African musicians, landing a record deal feels like the breakthrough they have been working toward...

Battle lines have recently been drawn, after fan fiction writer, Demetrious Polychron, filed a 250-million-dollar lawsuit against the Tolkien Estate and Amazon on the basis of copyright infringement.

In our continuing our series, "Mind Your Own Business", this article explores the crucial aspect of protecting your intellectual property (IP) in the workplace.

The 7th annual Adams & Adams Africa IP Network Meeting took place in Pretoria, South Africa recently, providing a unique opportunity for agents,

In January 2019, the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act of 2018 was enacted by the Parliament of Kenya to introduce some amendments to various intellectual property legislations...

The article discusses the intellectual property law issues that business owners and consumers now face as a result of the fact that so much commerce now takes place online.

The duration of copyright is literary or musical works or artistic works is for the life of the author and fifty years from the end of the year in which the author dies.

South Africa has seen a dramatic rise in entrepreneurial activity with many seeking to launch new products into the marketplace.

Ed Sheeran's victories continue to multiply, after a New York jury recently ruled that his song, Thinking Out Loud, does not infringe the copyright of well-known American song, Let's Get It On...

"Pennywise on a Bike" [pictured] is a drawing that appears quite ordinary, perhaps even slightly morbid, bearing all the hallmarks of a budding artist's creation

A drama recently played itself out at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town.

The International Accounting Standards 38 (IAS 38) defines an intangible asset as: "an identifiable non-monetary asset without physical substance." The International Financial Reporting Standards

Most brand owners go through the process of registering their trade mark to obtain proof that they own the brand and importantly to stop others from using it without permission.

Amazon is apparently the world's most valuable brand, and is one that plays an increasingly important role in our lives.

We first wrote about a while back. For the benefit of any adults reading this article, TikTok is a social network for amateur music videos, a global phenomenon that started in China as recently as...

As Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." E-commerce has forever changed the way we shop ...

The dispute that first piqued my interest in intellectual property law was between The Rolling Stones and The Verve over the song Bittersweet Symphony in the late 1990s.

A recent landmark judgment – Emisha Software (Pty) Ltd v Servsol Software Solutions CC and Others (2023/069011) [2024] ZAGPPHC 615 – required the High Court of South Africa...

We have discussed the proposed reforms to South African copyright law in previous articles. These reforms are controversial, to say the least.

We've written a fair bit about copyright recently, and much of our focus has been on how the digital age has brought about a marked change in attitude towards copyright (often bordering on ignorance)...