copyright

The 1 million digitised files milestone was achieved on 7 July 2021 at the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH). The total number of digitised pages stands now at approximately 18 million.

The ECP5 Capture and Store Historical Files is a European Cooperation Project that aims to digitise paper dossiers across EU intellectual property (IP) offices to enable easy and rapid access to documentation and data related to trade marks and designs.

This Monday 7 June marks the deadline for Member States to transpose the new EU copyright rules into national law. The new Copyright Directive protects creativity in the digital age, bringing concrete benefits to citizens, the creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators and cultural heritage institutions across the EU.

Unless you've spent the past fifteen years of your life avoiding all human contact and interaction, you've likely heard of the world-famous yet completely mysterious graffiti artist Banksy. He creates his art while no one is watching; no one knows the identity of the great creator, making the creations that much more magical. Sometimes he even destroys them.

This year’s World IP Day campaign ‘IP & SMEs: taking your ideas to market’is an opportunity to celebrate the role that intellectual property plays in supporting creativity and innovation.

This is the question that the Spanish Supreme Court had to answer after Miguel Angel Perera, a famous Spanish bullfighter, tried to protect his show from 2014, show that was classified as “perfect and outstanding” (go figure…). According to the Supreme Court, it is impossible to define precisely the “artistic creation”, as the bullfight is composed of unique elements that could never happen again and are, eventually, up to chance and to random and unpredictable factors.

After an accusation from Evermore Park that Swift infringed their trademark with her new album and song “Evermore” (by calling her latest album “Evermore” and by selling merchandise that infringed the park’s trademark rights), Taylor Swift is striking back with a copyright infringement claim.

Apparently, the company that just sued Swift for trademark infringement had for years been infringing Swift’s own intellectual property rights (copyright) by performing her songs at its park without a proper license.