The House of Lords’ decision yesterday that Matthew Fisher’s 38 year delay in claiming a share of copyright royalties should not prevent him claiming future royalties has been widely reported. See, for example the IPkat here. It is interesting therefore to focus here on how joint copyright arises, and how it came about that Fisher’s [...]
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Bottle Battle between Brooklyn Brewery and Belgians
When finding out his bottle was a possible infringement of the Westmalle Belgian ringed bottle (trademark rights in which had been assigned to the New Belgium Company in Colorado) Mr Hindy, the owner of the Brooklyn Brewery was happy to withdraw the similar bottle design his designer had come up with for the Brooklyn Local [...]
