The UK government won’t adopt the EU’s controversial copyright directive after it leaves the bloc on January 31st, tho...
In this file photo taken on May 15, 2019, an AI robot titled “Alter 3: Offloaded Agency,” is pictured during a photoca...
The Walt Disney Corporation may have issued copyright strikes over animated gifs of a character from Star Wars: The Mand...
The National Music Publishers’ Association is calling on Congress to investigate the ever-growing app TikTok over poten...
Movie studios, TV networks and radio stations have sent comments to the US Department of Commerce on how the government ...
In light of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, the UK should seek to implement the provisions of the EU Copyright Direc...
Copyright claims on YouTube are a necessary evil. They're important for copyright owners to claim content of theirs if i...
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has united with audio-visual and image organisations and blockchain rights com...
Universal Music has withdrawn a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice for a Twitter video showing thou...
The US Copyright Office has proposed adopting an average 41% increase in fees in order to account for inflation. In June...
The amount paid to songwriters and publishing companies for the making of “phonorecords” will be going up after a Copy...
The IPO's explained that rights holders will lose an element of control over how their material is accessed once they ha...
Chinese video sharing site QVOD was ordered on Thursday to pay a fine of 260 million yuan (41.8 million U.S. dollars) ov...
The House has passed a bipartisan bill, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017, that would ...
When copyright law and the First Amendment come into conflict, the First Amendment must win. The fair use doctrine—the ...
On Thursday and Friday, May 12-13, Electronic Frontier Foundation Legal Director Corynne McSherry will participate in pu...
EFF’s written comments were filed as part of a series of studies on the effectiveness of the DMCA, begun by the Copyrig...
Earlier today the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a report titled White Paper on Remixes, First Sale, and Statutory D...
“Monkey see, monkey sue is not good law” was the argument put forward by UK photographer David Slater in his oppositio...
Musician Taylor Swift has been targeted in a $42 million lawsuit over allegations that her 2014 hit song “Shake it off”...
The confidential settlement is between Pandora and ABKCO Music & Records, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, UMG...
A college librarian in Kentucky has found the 19th-century manuscript of a musical number that gave rise to one of the m...
Oracle has filed a complaint seeking to expand its copyright lawsuit regarding Google's use of Java APIs in Android. Ora...
Oracle Corp's long-running legal battle with Google Inc over Google's Android operating system for smartphones and other...
Film-makers suing music publisher Warner Chappell say they have found proof that Happy Birthday is not covered by copyri...
Yesterday, the MPAA sued MovieTube, owners of some two-dozen-plus streaming sites, alleging copyright infringement, acco...
The English High Court has scrapped a provision introduced by the government that would have enabled the public to make ...
As police forces up and down the country turn the screw on sellers of illegal streaming boxes, the government is now con...
A leading British music-industry association has launched a portal for members to keep track of illegal distribution of ...
The world’s biggest record labels have accused Google’s YouTube video hosting service of “abusing” exemptions to cop...