“The custodians of North Yorkshire stately home Castle Howard have won a tribunal
battle to avoid paying tax on the £9.4m sale of a painting, after a judge ruled
it a piece of ‘plant or machinery’ integral to attracting visitors.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The act of communication to the public for the purposes of article 3(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC and section 20 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 occurred both where the communication originated and where it was received.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The High Court has ordered the UK’s major internet service providers to block three websites offering links to pirated material.”
BBC News, 28th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men who admitted hacking Sony Music stealing thousands of hours of music tracks including unreleased material by Michael Jackson, have been spared jail.”
BBC News, 11th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who vandalised one of Tate Modern’s most cherished Mark Rothko paintings has been jailed for two years for actions the judge described as ‘entirely deliberate, planned and intentional’.”
The Guardian, 13th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has imposed the ‘least possible sentence’ on gang of graffiti vandals who attacked the capital’s tube network, saying one had a ‘portfolio you would be proud of’.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two thieves who stole a £500,000 sculpture by Henry Moore and sold it as scrap for just £46 have been jailed for a year.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A gang including a 16-year-old boy have been sentenced after stealing Chinese art worth up to £15m from a museum in an act of ‘cultural vandalism’.”
BBC News, 27th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government must reform UK copyright law in order to restore the public and business’s ‘respect’ in the ‘integrity’ of the framework, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An aristocrat whose family name is famed for its link to the Charge of the Light Brigade today failed in a bid to prevent dozens of portraits of his ancestors being sold.”
The Independent, 20th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain is set to lose a world-renowned museum following a high court ruling which could force it to sell its collection to pay off a £134m pension deficit. The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent faces being forced to sell its historic collection of china, masterpieces by Stubbs, Romney and Reynolds, and an archive linked to the nation’s social and industrial history. Judges in Birmingham ruled that the pottery collection owned by the museum was an asset of Waterford Wedgwood Potteries, which went bust in 2009. The collection can now be sold to pay off creditors, the largest of which is the Pension Protection Fund.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A cartoonist is suing the BBC for £2m over claims that the corporation copied his animations and used them in a CBeebies show.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rogue dealer has been jailed after engineering a £180,000 scam where he told fine art fakes to galleries across Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“They may not have known it, but users of MP3 players, CDs or DVDs have probably been breaking the law for years as they transferred their favourite song from one format to another.”
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The Independent, 3rd August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A prop designer who made the original Stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars has won his battle with director George Lucas over his right to sell replicas.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Search engine results should indicate whether material on websites is in breach of copyright law or not, a music licensing group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government should approve the creation of a new digital copyright exchange and should make some legal protections available only to musicians who sign up to it, a campaigner for music artists’ interests has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lawyers acting on behalf of Sir Paul McCartney have stepped in to prevent a series of his drawings from being sold at auction.”
BBC News, 16th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” ‘King of taggers’ Daniel Halpin remanded in custody after jury decides his ubiquitous Tox tag is vandalism.”
The Guardian, 7th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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