BTO's Music & Creative Industries Team
In April this year, the internet went crazy for the song “Heart on my Sleeve” which was released on 4 April 2023 and subsequently pulled from major music streaming platforms on 15 April 2023. In the 11 days that the song was available, it amassed around 600,000 streams on Spotify. Those who have heard the …
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The recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Louboutin v Amazon raises a number of different issues for platforms facilitating sales by third party vendors. The decision represents a significant shift in the approach to the liability of intermediaries for trade mark infringement and, unusually, did not follow the opinion …
In January, stock photo provider Getty Images (“Getty”) announced that it had commenced legal proceedings in London against Stability AI, creators of popular artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images in response to text inputs. Getty, which sells the right to use images from a catalogue of …
