One Artist’s Rubbish Is Another Person’s Treasure
Our attention has been caught by the recent story of a legal row between an artist and her former studio & workshop. In a nutshell Gypsy Hill Workshop (the ‘Workshop’’) have allegedly sold items which they claim are the ‘work’ of artist Angelique Hartigan.
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Uber and Out ? A look at the regulatory implications of the current spat.
On 22 September, Transport for London issued a statement. It had decided, pending its expiry on 30 September, that Uber’s ‘private hire operator licence’ would not be renewed.
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HMRC issues formal guidance on image rights
We have before idly speculated on some of the more entertaining image rights issues in the world of law – see link here. In the light of HMRC’s recently issued
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Imitation: Not Always the Best Form of Flattery
A little story in the Guardian set the ‘Wryly Comic’ light flashing on the M Law Media Watch Switchboard this morning. Please read the original article here. Fact yet again is stranger than fiction. It appears that German World Champion and Manchester United flagship
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SHARED PARENTAL LEAVE
Back in 2015, when the Government introduced Shared Parental Leave (SPL) overwhelmingly
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TV FORMATS & COPYRIGHT: WHAT’S THE X-FACTOR?
The extent to which you can protect a TV format has long been a muddy area of UK law. The high profile spat between Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell was perhaps to decide – or at least provide guidance on – this area of law once and for all. Fuller took Cowell
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