The owner of the “Tartan Army” trade marks failed this month to prevent a third party using the name without its permission. https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=3e6b2aa7-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7
Becoming a potential threat for the likes of Netflix and YouTube, Facebook have announced today, amongst other news, that they will be releasing an app which focuses on TV.
This “value grab” as explained in the letter as “perversely abusing U.S. law to underpay music creators, thus harming one of America’s economic and job engines.”
YouTube and GEMA settle long-running copyright dispute.
A dispute between YouTube and a German rights body has finally been resolved allowing all clips to be accessed in Germany.
In order to crack down on copyright infringement, a number of the worldÂs largest record labels have started an action against a website facilitating the direct infringement of hit music.
Lawdit’s guide to Social Media Law (‘ SML’) One thing is for sure – it’s not going away! So from parents to schools to businesses – Adapt to it, embrace it and get used to it. “Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years” – Steven Spielberg.
Following recent decisions in the Court of Justice for the European Union, it has been announced that the law surrounding copyright within the EU will be changing.
Recently released from the EU Commission, the new rules in relation to copyright that may form a part of a new directive are focused on making it easier for creators to make money from their works posted online.
UK Music today claimed that YouTube still isn’t giving artists enough money for their content.
