The Batmobile, A Monkey Selfie and the Lindt Gold Bear – Today’s Interesting IP

Ok, so the BIG news over the last 24 hours has been the ruling relating to Data Protection, Facebook, Ireland and the Safe Harbour Rules – See HERE There was more big news yesterday when Happy Birthday hit the headlines again! I’ve posted about this a few times recently, but the decision was handed down yesterday, and you can now sing Happy Birthday to your hearts content! http://www.managingip.com/Article/3491102/Judge-rules-WarnerChappell-doesnt-hold-rights-to-Happy-Birthday.html In other news: Sean Penn is suing for defamation for $10m – http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/sean-penn-files-10m-defamation-lawsuit-355598.html To the Batmobile! To the Copyright Depository! To the Courts! The batmobile is the subject of a copyright claim – http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/23/judge-rules-to-batmobile-copyright-protection-case [caption id="attachment_311" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Photo by Jennifer Graylock[/caption] Remember the monkey selfie? Well PETA are now suing on behalf of the monkey (yes seriously) claiming that it owns copyright in the image. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/23/world/monkey-selfie-peta-lawsuit/ There was  2,272 IP crimes reported to Crimestopper last year – http://www.cityam.com/225055/intellectual-property-crime-falling-uk-social-media-has-soared-become-major-market How Data Protection is hampering the Red Cross – http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/irish-red-cross-needs-help-with-list-of-pledges-for-refugees-1.2363881 Former Employees and your IP – Smule sues – http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/23/about-that-smule-lawsuit/?ncid=rss Your lindt Gold Bears are safe! Haribo sued them, but they lost – http://www.cityam.com/224996/lindt-wins-sweet-justice-battle-haribo and http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/23/haribo-legal-battle-lindt-gummy-bears-chocolate and http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/0923/729785-gummy-bears/