It’s one of the best-known songs in the world and it’s the copyright preserve of music publishers Warner Chappell. But possibly not for much longer.
A number of popular BitTorrent websites have been taken down after Swedish police raided a data centre near Stockholm.
The US Copyright Office has clarified its position about photographs taken by animals after a row between Wikipedia and a photographer over a ‘monkey selfie’.
British visitors to copyright-infringing websites will start to see warnings from the police in the place of banner adverts for Usenet and VPNs, in the latest phase of Operation Creative.
A Rochdale woman was told by a chocolate shop that she could not have an Easter egg personalised for her son ‘Wayne Rooney’ because of ‘copyright issues’.