An acronym gTLD stands for generic top-level domain. Top level domains are strings attached at the end of an internet address, the best know examples are .com, .org, .net etc. On June 20, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that its Board of Directors had allowed an increase in the number of available generic top-level… Read more →
The television show X Factor appears as a saviour of unknown artists, who otherwise wouldn’t find their way into the stardom of show business. However, underneath the veil of glitter, the naivety disappears and a bottom line profit of a music industry appears. This was acknowledged indirectly by Simon Cowell himself, in an interview with Piers Morgan. Simon said he… Read more →
Video games are fun and exciting to play, but are often overlooked as an intellectual activity. Pong was one of the earliest video games released in 1972 by Atari, but since then the video game industry has grown enormously. According to the IBISWorld Industry report, the global video game market is set to expand from $58.7 billion in 2011 to $83.0… Read more →
Fashion world is known to be fierce. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVptO7o4L8] However, Johanna Blakley during TED talks stated that fashion world is mostly free from the intellectual property litigation. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0[/embedyt] It’s partially correct, the fashion industry does differ from other industries in its intellectual property rights (IPR) outlook, but it’s not entirely true because IPR litigation appears to be fierce. On 5th of June… Read more →
The intellectual property wars that rage in comics industry sometimes are as interesting as the comics themselves, people who read comics often know little about the IPR background of their favourite hero’s. The fight for Superman intellectual property rights between Warner Bros and co-creators Jerome Siegel family have been going on for some time now. Recently, a California federal judge Otis… Read more →
Recently, BBC documentary maker Louis Theroux did a follow up to his now classic documentary Porn. The sequal is called Twilight of the Porn Stars, which shows how the internet has destroyed stable incomes of people within the porn industry. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oikCneLO1oU[/embedyt] The original documentary is available on Youtube. This is BBC, so it’s all in a good taste. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cmt6h6-LnQ[/embedyt] What… Read more →
The rap wars are usually known as the East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry in the 1990s between artists and fans of the East Coast rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy Records) and West Coast rapper 2Pac (Death Row Records), both of whom were murdered. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3skyye7TkYk[/embedyt] In 2013 a new rap war is escalating, now the mature rap industry… Read more →