Vogue Williams, Burning Man and Singing Happy Birthday – Today’s Interesting IP

Intellectual Property doesn’t take the weekend off. I do, so here’s what’s happened since Friday, it’s today’s Interesting IP!

• Happy Birthday to You….but don’t sing the song or you may be breaching Copyright – http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/13/why-should-we-pay-for-happy-birthday.html
• Burning Man (the festival) to sue Quinzos (the sandwich lads) over ad mocking and sending up the Festival (there was LOADS of articles, this is the CNET one) –http://www.cnet.com/au/news/quiznos-mocks-techies-at-burning-man-may-be-hit-with-lawsuit/
• Vogue Williams, Connolly Station and the Law – https://castlebridge.ie/blog/2015/09/11/data-protection-not-vogue

• The Oscars sued GoDaddy for $29,000,000 and (spoiler alert) lost –http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/11/us-godaddy-oscars-lawsuit-idUKKCN0RB1UJ20150911
• The new Irish and that Data Protection story that will NOT go away – http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/google-refuses-to-remove-results-with-new-citizens-names-1.2350201
• A nifty IP infographic – What’s counterfeiting costing? http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/Blog/detail.aspx?g=3d4f89aa-a702-40cc-aa47-dce3b1282891
• What’s a Patent Box, and is it a good thing? http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/09/13/the-advantages-of-enacting-a-patent-box-regime/id=61571/
• New Copyright Contract Act in The Netherlands – http://www.thelawtips.com/new-copyright-contract-law-aims-to-improve-position-of-authors-and-performing-lexology-registration/

Later, my pick of the Trade Marks filed in the OHIM yesterday, and the cream of the IP crop from Friday’s UK Intellectual Property Office Journals Brian