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AI voice cloning: how a Bollywood veteran set a legal precedent

Playback singer Arijit Singh is the most followed artist on Spotify. When his voice was cloned, the resulting court case highlighted growing concerns around AI, IP and personality rights.

In the Courts: The US Supreme Court’s Warhol decision revisits the boundaries of fair use

In May 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision on the Warhol case. The decision upheld the claim by the celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, that the Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) had infringed her copyright in a photo of the late entertainer Prince, when, after Prince’s death in 2016, the Foundation licensed an illustration by Andy Warhol based on that photo, to Vanity Fair for a cover.

In the Courts: Ed Sheeran Succeeds in Music Copyright Infringement Case, but it’s not over yet…

In May 2023, a US court found that Ed Sheeran’s hit Thinking Out Loud did not copy Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. The crux of this case was that while parts of the two songs are similar, those parts are unprotected elements that are freely available for everyone to use.

In the Courts: Australian Court finds AI systems can be “inventors”

In a world first, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia has found that artificial intelligence is capable of being an “inventor” for the purposes of the Australian patent regime. Find out more about Justice Beach’s decision.

Australian court clamps down on the sale of fake Aboriginal souvenirs

In June 2019, the Federal Court of Australia handed down a penalty of AUD 2.3 million against a purveyor of “fake aboriginal souvenirs”.

3D printing, the Maker Movement, IP litigation and legal reform

Industrial 3D printing is playing a bigger role in advanced manufacturing.

In the courts: five years after Alice - five lessons learned from the treatment of software patents in litigation

It has been five years since the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Alice Corp. v CLS Bank International. Here are five lessons learned from software patent litigation after Alice.

“BREXIT” passes EU trademark test

Is the term “Brexit” in itself eligible for trademark protection? Find out how an appeal case before the EUIPO on this question fared this autumn.

US Supreme Court rewrites the rules on patent exhaustion

A small company in West Virginia built a business on selling refilled printer cartridges. When it was accused of infringing patents, it decided to fight. Its victory at the Supreme Court has reshaped the doctrine of exhaustion and forced businesses to review their business strategies.