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Intellectual property

  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Synthesia offers shares to actors who help create its AI models

    Move by London-based start-up to compensate those it uses to generate digital ‘avatars’ is a first for AI industry

    Synthesia’s logo and a screenshot from its website
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Media
    UK comic book makers join forces as AI copycat battle awaits

    Trade association Comic Book UK to lobby for recognition over importance as export industry and value as IP developer

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  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    Sony Music Entertainment Inc
    Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes

    Label uses scale of problem to argue against UK government’s proposed loosening of rules

    Harry Styles performing at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles, California in February 2023
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    AI copyright wars need a market solution

    Data licensing can support a thriving ecosystem for tech firms and creators

    robot and human hands
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    John Thornhill
    Help is coming in the AI copyright wars

    Artificial intelligence companies must decide how to pay for the human-generated content they need

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  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Media
    Sky calls on Amazon to crack down on illegal streaming of football

    Broadcaster accuses company of failing to do enough to tackle piracy, often involving its Fire Stick TV devices

    An English Premier League match between Ipswich Town and Aston Villa
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Amazon.com
    Amazon MGM to take over creative direction of James Bond franchise

    Studio agrees deal with longtime producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli

    Actor Daniel Craig in a scene from the James Bond movie ‘Spectre’
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    The copycat brands that are replacing Ozempic in Russia

    Local pharma groups have taken over a lucrative niche market

    Montage of Ozempic and Semavic injections, and Russian flag colours on a blue background
  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    Lex
    Copyright battles loom over artists and AI Premium content

    Large language models allow image generators to produce pictures where infringement is hard to prove

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  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Special Report
    Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms

    2024’s ranking of intellectual property law firms; the Unified Patent Court’s first year; gender and race-based gaps in patent applications; AI’s ‘double-edged sword’; EU plans for gene-edited crops patent ban and new Standard Essential Patent rules

    A colorful and abstract illustration of a man typing at a computer desk, with several robotic arms extending from a machine towards the person. The image is split into two contrasting halves, with the left side in red and the right side in blue
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Call for entries: Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2025

    We invite clients and peers to recommend firms and rate them for specialist expertise, by March 23

    A technician in a white lab coat solders electronic components at a workbench in an industrial setting
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Warner Bros Discovery, Inc
    Warner Bros strikes $1bn deal for music catalogue including theme from ‘Friends’

    US company creates joint venture to own and manage almost 100 years of film and television music

    A scene from TV series ‘Friends’ featuring Courteney Cox as Monica and Matthew Perry as Chandler
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

    White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

    DeepSeek and OpenAI logos
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    US media groups warn UK over AI content-scraping rules

    Body that represents Disney, Fox and Universal Music set out ‘strong opposition’ over weakening of copyright laws

    Daniel Craig standing in a roomful of people in the James Bond film ‘No time to die’
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
    Lawyers navigate novel AI legal battles

    Specialist knowledge is required to help tech clients facing a wave of copyright and privacy claims

    Portrait of a woman generated by AI
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    US companies
    Designer Thom Browne did not infringe Adidas trademarks, court rules

    High Court judge says consumers can distinguish between three and four stripes

    Thom Browne wearing his signature suit in London in July
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Brands told to rein in ‘aggressive’ trademarks after UK court ruling against Sky

    Media company had claimed intellectual property rights for goods including antiperspirants, tuxedos and biofuels

    The Sky Plc logo
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Special ReportFT Business Education Research Insights
    Patents signal positive impact of business school insights on innovation

    Researchers express satisfaction that their work has been cited by companies in patent applications

    DHL employees carry out deliveries on Sai Yeung Choi South street
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Verity Harding
    Napster’s lessons for the AI age

    Lack of consultation has turned potential allies into adversaries, but technology and the creative industries can work together

    English journalist and television talk show host Michael Parkinson
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Industrial espionage
    China arrests South Korean chip engineer on espionage charges

    Move escalates battle over intellectual property theft between Beijing and Seoul in critical semiconductor sector

    Sunset over Swan Lake financial business district, Hefei city, China
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Qualcomm Inc
    Arm cancels Qualcomm’s chip design licence amid legal dispute

    SoftBank-backed company is battling the US semiconductor maker over royalty payments

    A smartphone displaying the Qualcomm logo is positioned on top of a computer motherboard.
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Dow Jones & Co Inc
    Murdoch’s Dow Jones sues AI start-up Perplexity for infringement

    Publishers accuse company of ‘freeriding’ on valuable news content

    People walk by News Corp’s building
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The real questions posed by counterfeit clobber

    Who’s being ripped off by a fake designer baseball cap?

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Gary Locke
    US patent laws need updating for today’s budding industries

    IP protections must match the pace of technological progress

    A Model T motor car from 1908
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s copyright rules draw AI groups — and alarm from creators

    Critics want changes to local laws that allow widespread use of copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models

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