Protecting Your Creative Work: A Guide to Copyright Protection
In today’s digital age, where sharing and accessing creative content is easier than ever, protecting your creative work is crucial. Whether you’re a writer, artist, musician, or filmmaker, understanding copyright protection can help safeguard your [...]
Privacy Law: Evolving Cause of Action – Breach of Confidence
Breach of confidence is a common cause of action in matters involving intrusion of privacy. The doctrine is not statute-based but arises from common law (i.e. judge-made law) and equity. To establish a claim for [...]
Protecting Your Brand Beyond Borders
In today’s digital and global economy, your brand can reach customers in dozens of countries, sometimes without you even trying. But while your business may expand effortlessly across borders, your trademark rights don’t. That’s why [...]
Unpaid Present Entitlements and the Implications of Bendel
BackgroundPresent entitlements are rights that a beneficiary of a trust has to share in the trust’s income. The two defining features of a present entitlement over trust income are that the beneficiary:• has an indefeasible [...]
What is IP?
Intellectual property (IP) rights can be a business’ most valuable asset. For example, Forbes reported that while Disney’s 2013 hit Frozen grossed US$1.3 billion at the box office, the licensing of the IP rights accumulated US$107.2 billion [...]
Sale of Business Basics: Asset or Share Sale?
Often the first fundamental question a lawyer will ask when requested to prepare documentation for a sale of a business is: Are you conducting an Asset or a Share sale? Whilst for the most part [...]
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