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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

If you were too busy dodging ghosts and sorting through sweet treats to keep up with the latest legal developments, this Kat has you covered. Book Reviews Brewing up this week's sweetest IP treats. Jocelyn Bosse reviewed  the book " Geographical Indications in International Trade: Towards Sustainable Development in the Caribbean " (Hart, 2026) by Dr Yentyl Williams , an open-access volume evaluating whether the EU's sui generis GI model can advance sustainable development in the Global South. Copyrights and Designs Georgia Jenkins explored the high-stakes copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Anthropic by rightsholders of musical compositions recorded by Elvis Presley, claiming up to $41.1 million in statutory damages. The complaint alleges that Anthropic scraped protected lyrics and web archives to train Claude, stripped copyright management information, and deployed models capable of reproducing protected song texts even through modified prompts. Katfriend...

[Guest post] A €50 million Monet: Public domain, private property, and the hidden IP in an art auction

[Guest Post] Are the German UPC Local Divisions the new Eastern District of Texas?

AG Szpunar’s Opinion in Like Company is here: a landmark take on several questions facing AI and copyright/related rights, even though the CJEU is advised not to answer the questions on LLM training

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The IPKat team: arrivals, farewells, and news

UPCKat: Proportionality defence against life sciences injunctions takes shape at the UPC

[Guest post] AI Authorship: A Case of Old Wine and New Vessels?

Claude 'can’t help falling in love with’… Elvis’s lyrics