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There's been a lot of copyright in the news of late. Here are a few of the more interesting stories.

Good progress has been made in South Africa to establish and provide for the adequate protection of traditional works over the past few years.

A jury in New York has decided that Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud did not infringe the copyright in Marvin Gaye's classic hit Let's Get It On.

As reported by the media, DStv had YouTube take down the launch video of a new Afrikaans streaming service based on a suspicious copyright claim.

A discussion relating to a recent decision in the US, on the intellectual property implications of posting a photo on Twitter.

In the digital age, photographs are shared, reposted, and embedded across websites with ease. Yet behind every image lies a creator, a photographer who has invested time, skill, and resources to produce a work of art.

The Copyright Amendment Bill ("the CAB / the Bill") has caused much debate and controversy in the protection of Intellectual Property rights in South Africa.

The owner of copyright in a work is by statute given the exclusive right to perform certain specified acts in respect of his or her work or to authorise others to do so and hence to prevent

The Copyright Act does not require registration in order to acquire copyright in respect of a particular work. Instead copyright subsists automatically once a work has been completed ...

From time to time disputes regarding intellectual property rights catch the attention of the public. One such case is the dispute between s and Woolworths regarding certain beverages placed on the market by Woolworths.

The BBC recently published a piece called ‘3D Printing Will Be the Next Big Copyright Fight’.

If copyright could be compared to a continent, it would be Africa: exciting, diverse, multi-faceted, often misunderstood and far too expansive to cover in a few hundred words!

It is a beautiful Monday morning and you are on your way to work.

The South African Trade Marks Act has a very wide definition of the term ‘mark’, and this includes words, colours, numbers, patterns, ornamentation and shape.

Whether you are a serious collector or just charmed by the "ugly-cute" craze, the world of Labubu toys has exploded into a global market phenomenon.

It's practically impossible to escape artificial intelligence ("AI") these days, and the appreciation of the overlap between AI, intellectual property (IP) and personality rights (image rights) is growing.

In the past couple of months, the global population has not only proverbially had their eyes glued on the Covid-19 pandemic, but also their bodies glued to their chairs, at home.