‘A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is’ Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit

Internet technologies have made it possible for ordinary people...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was an immediate success when it was first published selling 6,000 copies. Yet, as mentioned in my blog Copyright Protection: How to manage copyright in an unregulated space ...

There has been a significant push in recent years to address the issue of IP rights being infringed online. Following several changes in the law, and a number of landmark decisions, progress is being made to help rights...

With the Internet continuing to develop at a significant rate, media and IP law often struggle to keep up with the advancements.

To get an insight into future developments in the digital world during 2015, the Guardian has...

Good news for UK business this month. The UK is ranked as the most entrepreneurial country in Europe and the world’s second most innovative country.

The Global Entrepreneurship Index measures start-up progress in the...

Everyone seems to carry a smartphone these days. Many of these are owned by employees, and are used to access their company’s private information. This raises key issues relating to security and data protection. Is your...

Images bring blog posts and articles alive. Downloading them from the Internet is just a matter of a few simple clicks. But are you infringing copyright if you use them? In the first of a two-part article on images, we look at...

This is the first of a series of blogs in which I look at intellectual property issues in different sectors. I will be considering the extent to which IP protections such as patents, copyright, trademarks, designs, and know how...

In part one of our blog post, Can You Take Images Off The Internet And Use Them In Your Blog Posts or Newsletters, we looked at the law relating to copyright in images.

In this second part, we look at how the use of stock...

Concerns have been raised over attempts to monopolise a phrase made famous in the wake of an international tragedy.

Jaochim Ronson, the creator of the image portraying the words ‘Je Suis Charlie’, has voiced his...

We often hear about the importance of patent protection for innovations. Patents can be one of the most valuable type of intellectual property a business can own.

However, in practice, it is difficult to predict the value...

Content is important if you want to be found online. That’s well known. What is less understood is what the considerations are if someone asks to feature your content on their site.

With the proliferation of news...