intellectual property Archives

Take one cup of IP, stir vigorously: the latest fight over copying cookbook recipes is a story as old as food

Lauren Samuelsson - May 2, 2025 4 MIN READ

Plagiarism accusations against Brooke Bellamy, first brought to light by Nagi Maehashi on her website RecipeTin Eats, continue to emerge. This week, it was reported that Bellamy has been dropped as an ambassador for the Academy for Enterprising Girls’ program for young girls in business. And a second cookbook author has come forward. High-profile US baker,… Read more »

Leadership

Zuck you all. Meta’s boss is back in steal mode

Simon Thomsen - March 25, 2025 4 MIN READ

This year marks 20 years since Mark Zuckberg launched Facebook, having kicked it off as The Facebook in 2004. He was already notorious for Facemash, the “hot or not” site that ranked Harvard students by their attractiveness, which he created in late 2003. Zuckerberg hacked into house face book websites at the university to get… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Record companies are suing music apps for copying classic songs in a legal battle that will shape the future of generative AI

Wellet Potter - July 3, 2024 3 MIN READ

Last month, several major record labels filed copyright infringement lawsuits in US courts against the makers of two generative AI music apps, Suno and Udio. The labels allege the AI companies have engaged in copyright infringement by copying many sound recordings belonging to the record labels, and producing outputs very similar to those recordings. The… Read more »

Business strategy

3 ways to stop and catch business rivals trying to steal your innovations and ideas

Sam MacAulay - August 30, 2023 3 MIN READ

Not a day goes by without an innovator claiming to have had their intellectual property ripped off. Sometimes it’s by an investor and potential partner, as many startups claim about Amazon. Or by an employee, like the Apple engineer accused of stealing the source code for Apple’s self-driving car and on selling it to a… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

A STING IN THE TALE: US judge confirms works generated by AI are not protected by copyright

Simon Thomsen - August 23, 2023 3 MIN READ

One thing artificial intelligence is not good at generating is irony. That takes something, or someone like a US District Court judge, who last week ruled that a piece of art generated by AI can’t be subject to copyright. It’s not a new idea, but rather reinforces the status quo around intellectual property when its… Read more »

Advice

How founders should deal with a VC asking: ‘what’s your defensible IP?’

Alan Jones - June 8, 2022 2 MIN READ

There’s a time (usually in the future) and a place (bigger markets first) to register patents, but if you’re still getting used to fielding questions from VCs, this is probably not the time and place. So why does it still get asked? Not sure but I think it’s a legacy from days when VC would… Read more »

Advice

Powerhouse Ventures is an investment firm collaborating with universities to commercialise research

Gina Baldassarre - June 19, 2017 4 MIN READ

Dedicated to identifying the most promising research from universities across New Zealand and Australia, forming a company around it, investing in it, and commercialising it is Powerhouse Ventures.

Advice

Nicole Stark of Disparity Games talks life as an indie dev and the rise of gaming startups

James Ward - April 13, 2017 3 MIN READ

According to Disparity Game’s Nicole Stark, the rise of indie devs can be attributed to the “perfect storm” occurring post global financial crisis.

Advice

Defiant Development’s Kim Allom on the state of Australia’s gaming industry

James Ward - March 31, 2017 3 MIN READ

Speaking at Myriad, Allom shed light on how lack of government support and funding opportunities are restricting the emergence of new startups in the space.

Advice

TrademarkVision allows businesses to compare their logos against a global trademark database

James Ward - February 17, 2017 3 MIN READ

TrademarkVision is an online platform allowing businesses to compare their images against other brands using a detailed algorithm.

Advice

MyDisabilityMatters is a social media platform offering the disabled community a private version of Facebook

James Ward - December 9, 2016 3 MIN READ

MyDisabilityMatters looks to tackle the problems facing people with disabilities on mainstream social media platforms by providing an exclusive space.

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