Last week, Marks & Spencer filed an intellectual property claim with the High Court over Aldi’s lookalike ‘Colin the Caterpillar’ cake, called ‘Cuthbert’.
Both covered in a solid chocolate shell with a cheeky white chocolate face, the rival caterpillar cakes are visually hard to tell apart. And M&S is not happy about this.
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Author: Tom Broadhurst
In this second ART IP post I consider the intellectual property law underlying art crossing over to trade marks and brands.
Author: Tom Broadhurst
Last century I heard Paul Goldstein’s then provocative view – that the Internet and digital revolution would be the death of copyright. Others have said similar things but this decease of copyright has not happened – copyright still robustly thrives in the digital arena and is vital in the visual arts. In 2011 an estimated £70M of licensing revenue went to writers and artists (see p. 5 of the report ‘An economic analysis of copyright‘). Continue reading
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