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This week in the news, Taylor Swift seeks trade mark protection for voice recordings and a stage image, and CJEU clarifies retirement-home retransmission rules and

In this blog post, we look at the United Kingdom’s new report on copyright and AI, and the General Court’s ruling on the registration of the Irish Grass Fed Beef protected geographical indication.

In this blog post, we look at the CJEU Grand Chamber ruling on music sampling and the pastiche exception, and the first oral hearing at the CJEU on generative artificial intelligence and copyright.

In this blog post, we look at the CJEU ruling in Goyard v. Faure Le Page on deceptive heritage trade marks, and the European Parliament's resolution on copyright and generative AI.

In this blogpost, we look at Nintendo’s latest patent update and the General Court’s V12X trade mark ruling

In this blog post, we focus on the CJEU’s EUIPO v Nowhere case and the limits on UK-based oppositions after Brexit.

This week, we look at the growing backlash against Seedance 2.0 and the disputes over music rights in figure skating at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

In this blogpost, we focus on two copyright disputes, one involving Disney and Google, and the other concerning the Belgian series High Tides

This week, we have a look at a dispute involving the use of the word "Donut" in Spain, and what is deemed genuine use of a trade mark