By Naomi Korn, CEO In September 2025, the AI company Anthropic, who provide several AI and Gen.AI platforms such as “Claude”, announced a proposed settlement worth at least $1.5 billion with specific authors. These authors had alleged that the company used pirated digital copies of books to train its models. According to the Associated Press and […]
By Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services In June 2021, Sony Music Entertainment uncovered a breach in a cloud account. The account had been compromised by Adrian Kwiatkowski (aka Dalziel), who illegally accessed multiple artists’ cloud storage to steal and sell unreleased music.[1] Kwiatkowski has been prosecuted under copyright law because he distributed copyrighted material […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO I was honoured to be chairing the CILIP Copyright Conference for another year. Joined by over 100 delegates, we had an extremely enjoyable and enriched day of sessions exploring AI and how copyright law deals with these fast paced developments; how library and information professionals navigate an already complex copyright and licensing […]
Huge congratulations from the Naomi Korn Associates Team to Blackpool’s Showtown Museum, who has won Permanent Exhibition of the Year at the 2025 Museums + Heritage Awards! The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday 15th May at the London Hilton Park Lane. Everyone at Naomi Korn Associates is thrilled for the team […]
Showtown is Blackpool’s Museum of fun and entertainment, celebrating the town’s rich history as the UK’s premier seaside resort. Located near the famous Blackpool Tower, it showcases the vibrant stories of performers, comedians, dancers, and showbiz legends who helped shape Blackpool’s unique cultural identity. With interactive exhibits and immersive displays, Showtown invites visitors of all ages to explore […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property On May 9th, 1945, the day after V.E. Day, the island of Guernsey was liberated after enduring 5 years of occupation by German forces. To mark the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day Guernsey Museums and Galleries partnered with BBC Guernsey to collect islanders’ memories through oral history recordings of their […]
Copyright in the gaming world extends far beyond books and films. Game developers, designers, artists, writers, and composers can use their copyright to control how their original content, whether code, characters, music, storylines, or artwork, is used, copied, or shared. Whilst copyright empowers creators to decide who can reproduce, modify, or distribute their work, and […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property Volunteers play a crucial role in the UK cultural heritage sector. Their contributions span a wide range of activities and are essential for the operation, preservation, and accessibility of heritage sites and collections. This can include creating content that will be subject to copyright. Volunteers may be writing blogs, […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO The CILIP Copyright Conference, run in association with Naomi Korn Associates, and is always a highlight of the year for me. Tailored for information professionals, librarians, copyright leads, educators, and anyone managing the use of copyrighted materials, it offers an ideal annual pit-stop to explore the critical copyright and licensing issues affecting […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property The UK Parliament’s Culture Media and Sport committee, the Commons select committee responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Media Culture and Sport has published a report on part two of its inquiry into the challenges faced by the British film and the high end television (HETV) […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property Quarterly statistics released by the Department for Culture Media and Sport show that UK museums and galleries have struggled to reach pre-pandemic visitor levels, overall visits in October-December 2024 were 15% down on the equivalent time period in 2019. Combined with the cumulative effect of funding cuts, fiscal pressure […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property The default position for many organisations when commissioning work is to ensure that the copyright ownership is always assigned to them. This may be appropriate in many situations, securing the copyright ownership ensures control over how the work can be exploited, but for cultural institutions commissioning creators, a […]
