#Intellectual Property

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• 🇺🇸 Apollonia ‘Very Pleased’ After Trademark War Settlement With Prince Estate — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  “Apollonia is very happy that the parties can continue to honor the legacy of Prince and his musical genius," lawyer Daniel Cislo tells Rolling Stone

  Related: #Entertainment Law, #Music Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Chris Bremner Sells Action-Comedy Spec ‘Ram’ To Netflix — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Ram, a new spec marking a passion project for writer-producer Chris Bremner, Deadline has learned. Plot details are under wraps, but the project has been described as a...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Streaming Services
• 🇺🇸 Ana Huang’s ‘Gods of the Game’ English Premier League Soccer Romance Book Series Sets Three-Film Adaptation at Amazon (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Amazon MGM Studios has set a film trilogy adaptation of romance author Ana Huang’s best-selling sports series, “Gods of the Game.” The book series follows an inter-connected series of steamy romances ...

  Related: #Film Adaptation, #Romance Genre, #Sports Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 The Man Behind Ryan Coogler’s Audacious ‘Sinners’ Deal — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Dan Limerick helped seal one of the more extraordinary deals of the year, granting the director near eternal ownership over his Oscar-winning hit.

  Related: #Entertainment Law, #Hollywood Business
• 🇺🇸 Paramount Gets Back Into the Book Business, Launches New Publishing Imprint in IP Play — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The new division, Paramount Global Publishing, will adapt the company's IP into books and other titles, while also developing new original stories that could find their way to the screen.

  Related: #Media Expansion, #Content Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 How the invention of the sewing machine led to other modern marvels — 03/04/2026 [USA]

  An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.

  Related: #Innovation History
• 🇺🇸 Showgirl Showdown: Vegas Performer Sues Taylor Swift Over ‘Life of a Showgirl’ Trademark — 30/03/2026 [USA]

  Maren Wade argues the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused Swift's application over similarities with her own decade-old "Confessions of a Showgirl" mark

  Related: #Celebrity Legal Issues, #Trademark Law
• 🇬🇧 Luke Littler moves to trademark his face — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Luke Littler has applied to trademark his own face. 

  Related: #Celebrity Rights
• 🇺🇸 Ramaco Resources files trade secrets lawsuit against former employee — 20/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Legal Dispute
• 🇺🇸 Majority Stake in Tina Turner Catalog Acquired by Pophouse — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based company co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, has completed a transaction that sees Pophouse becoming an owner alongside BMG in “the music interests of the music...

  Related: #Music Industry
• 🇺🇸 Rep. Jamie Raskin demands answers on Trump's Board of Peace patent — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Jamie Raskin sounded the alarm that the federal patent office filed trademark applications for President Trump's Board of Peace -- not for representatives of the board.

  Related: #Political Inquiry
• 🇺🇸 AI and Intellectual Property Protections Probed at FilMart Panel — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Among the multitude of AI-related panels and workshops at this year’s FilMart, one forum on the legal landscape surrounding gen AI and IP stood out. A primary concern for producers and directors remai...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Film Industry, #Legal Frameworks
• 🇺🇸 Paramount Passes on ‘G.I. Joe’ Treatment from Max Landis (EXCLUSIVE) — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are not moving forward with a take on a new G.I. Joe movie from screenwriter Max Landis, multiple sources told Variety. Landis, son of “Trading Places” director John Land...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Business Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Next In Horror: ‘Monitor’ Filmmakers Matt Black & Ryan Polly Nearly Had Their Horror Shot Adapted By Someone Else Without Their Consent — But Seized The Opportunity For Themselves — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from SXSW Midnighter selection Monitor. For Matt Black and Ryan Polly, the Texas-based filmmakers behind the horror film Monitor, the project e...

  Related: #Creative Control
• 🇺🇸 ‘Select’ Quincy Jones Music, Publishing and NIL Assets Acquired by HarbourView — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The HarbourView Equity Partners investment has acquired “select music and non-music assets” from the Estate of Quincy Jones, one of the most legendary producers, composers and creators of the last 75 ...

  Related: #Music Acquisition
• 🇺🇸 Quincy Jones’ Estate Sells Catalog, Including Stake in Michael Jackson Classics — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The agreement with HarbourView Equity Partners also covers Jones' publishing rights and compositions like "Soul Bossa Nova" and the Sanford and Son theme song

  Related: #Music Industry
• 🇺🇸 RandMark: On Random Watermarking of Visual Foundation Models — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.10695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Being trained on large and diverse datasets, visual foundation models (VFMs) can be fine-tuned to achieve remarkable performance and efficiency in va...

  Related: #AI Security
• 🇺🇸 Spain’s Animation Sector Presses for Bigger IP Ambitions, Faster Rules and a Stronger Global Drive — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Spain’s animation industry used the Málaga Festival to make a pointed case for itself: the talent is there, the export reach is proven and the global appetite is real, but unless the country gets bett...

  Related: #Animation Industry
• 🇬🇧 Australian designer Katie Perry wins trademark appeal vs Katy Perry — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The US singer lost the case in 2023 and later won on appeal, but now judges have ruled against her.

  Related: #Trademark Law
• 🇬🇧 Katie Perry v Katy Perry: Sydney fashion designer wins 16-year trademark dispute with US pop star — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Australia’s high court finds singer’s label and merchandise distributor had been ‘assiduous infringers’ of trademark</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/mar/...

  Related: #Trademark Law
• 🇺🇸 ‘Halo’ Actor Demands Trump’s White House Remove Master Chief’s Voice From ‘Disgusting and Juvenile War Porn’ Video: I Don’t ‘Endorse’ This ‘Propaganda’ — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Steve Downes, the voice of “Halo” protagonist Master Chief, is slamming Donald Trump’s White House for its “disgusting and juvenile war porn” video on social media, which included the Downes-voiced Ma...

  Related: #Political Controversy
• 🇬🇧 Pokémon condemns White House for using its imagery — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The company says its "mission is not affiliated with any political viewpoint or agenda," in response to the latest White House meme.

  Related: #Political Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Pokémon Company calls out White House over game-themed 'MAGA' post — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Once again, the folks behind the massively popular Pokémon franchise have issued a statement distancing themselves from the Trump administration's activities.

  Related: #Political Branding
• 🇺🇸 Pokémon rebukes White House's use of game image — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Pokémon rebukes White House's use of game image

  Related: #Government Relations
• 🇺🇸 Authorize-on-Demand: Dynamic Authorization with Legality-Aware Intellectual Property Protection for VLMs — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.04896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid adoption of vision-language models (VLMs) has heightened the demand for robust intellectual property (IP) protection of these high-value pret...

  Related: #AI Security
• 🇺🇸 Pokémon Company Objects to White House Use for Its Political Memes — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  “No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games.

  Related: #Political Communication
• 🇺🇸 Activision silences trusted Call of Duty leaker — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  One of the most trusted leakers for Call of Duty will no longer share confidential information about the gaming franchise after being hit with a cease and desist order. TheGhostOfHope (also known to t...

  Related: #Gaming Industry, #Community Culture
• 🇺🇸 Autonomous AI and Ownership Rules — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This Article examines the circumstances in which AI-generated outputs remain linked to their creators and the points at which they lose that connecti...

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Regulatory Frameworks
• 🇺🇸 Isaac Hayes’ Estate Reaches Settlement With Donald Trump Over Use Of ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  The estate of Isaac Hayes has reached a settlement with Donald Trump over the use of the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” at campaign rallies. A joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice was filed in U....

  Related: #Entertainment Law, #US Politics, #Music Industry
• 🇺🇸 Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.

  Related: #Technology Competition, #Geopolitics