BBC Worldwide has reportedly won its copyright infringement lawsuit against the Italian media company Mediaset over the format of Strictly Come Dancing. According to the BBC’s lawsuit, Mediaset unlawfully copied the format of its popular show Strictly Come Dancing to develop its new ‘Baila!’ programme. This idea for this show was thought up by Mediaset …
The Government’s Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Wilcox, has announced the launch of a new guide for businesses on how to avoid falling foul of intellectual property laws. The guide, entitled ‘Preventing Infringement of Intellectual Property (IP) Rights in the Workplace’, is designed to give companies and their employees advice on IP laws and how …
Schools in Sussex are reportedly facing a wave of lawsuits from parents and visitors after a number of slips, falls and other accidents were reported. In one claim, a school is being sued for £20,000 after someone walking on a carpeted corridor slipped on a sweet wrapper. In another, a pupil at a school in …
The owners of the micro-blogging platform Twitter have reportedly filed a lawsuit with the aim of acquiring the exclusive rights to the term “tweet”. This is despite the fact that the term was thought up and is currently possessed by someone else. The lawsuit relates to the advertising company Twittad, which first used the term …
Microsoft is reportedly facing legal action over allegations that it tracks the location of its mobile users even if they have turned the tracking software off. The lawsuit, filed a couple of weeks ago in a Seattle federal court, accuses Microsoft of collecting data about its users and their whereabouts without their permission, especially as …
A bread company based in Barnet in Greater London has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee fell from a ladder in a fatal accident back in 2009. Ovenpride Wholesale Ltd’s Finchley Road bakery was visited by two HSE inspectors after handyman Rocco Carofalo fell from a stepladder, …
A printing firm based in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire could face a substantial fine over the death of an employee in October 2008. Employee Ian Ebbs, 43, was working on a night shift at the St Ives Web factory, located in the Fengate industrial area of the city, when the incident occurred. He was repairing a …
Stan Lee Media Inc. (SLMI) has reportedly filed a lawsuit over the rights to the character of Conan the Barbarian, as portrayed in the recent released film by Paradox Entertainment. SLMI, the company set up by iconic comic book creator Stan Lee but now operating independently of him, is currently in the process of rebuilding …
The analytics firm comScore is facing a new lawsuit filed by a law firm in Chicago which alleges that the company used “sinister and shocking” methods to collect its data. The class-action lawsuit, filed by Edelson McGuire on behalf of at least two plaintiffs, accuses comScore of violating the following US laws: • Stored Communications …