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The guitar community has recently been engaged in the age-old tradition of arguing on the internet over whether Fender is right to protect its iconic Stratocaster guitar design, or whether decades of ubiquity have made the shape as much a part of guitar culture as it is a Fender product....

What does it take to turn a good idea into something that creates lasting impact? Often, it takes more than a breakthrough invention or an ambitious research project. It takes the right people, systems, partnerships and expertise to help that idea move from the drawing board into the world. Th...

While World Anti-Counterfeiting Day has come and gone, the challenge it highlights remains ever-present. In South Africa, counterfeiting continues to cost the economy billions of rands in lost revenue while authorities seize hundreds of thousands of illicit goods each year, highlighting that the ...

A recent copyright dispute involving media personality Ntando Duma and photographic agency Pixel Kollective has highlighted a common misconception about photographs and copyright. The dispute arose after a photograph, in respect of which Pixel Kollective owned the copyright, was allegedly used in...

A brand runs an on-pack promotion: buy a product, find the code inside, enter it on an app, and you might win a prize – from a free lunch to an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris. Thousands of people enter, and a winner is drawn. The marketing team would love to announce the winner with a photograph...

The world’s most famous and beloved showgirl finds herself in another legal battle at the intersection of her latest album title “THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL”, and a trade mark registration for “CONFESSIONS OF A SHOWGIRL” owned by Las Vegas cabaret artist, writer and podcaster, Maren Flagg (who perfor...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is underway, bringing its trade mark spectacle to 16 host cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States. Behind the excitement, however, lies years of planning and a complex web of commercial arrangements designed to protect one of the world's most valuable sporting b...

What the Nemo Plus AI dispute reveals about AI-generated content, AI tools, ownership and liability. In late 2024, users of Figma, the cloud-based collaborative design platform beloved of creative studios, brand agencies and UX teams worldwide, discovered what some described as unsett...

In March 2026, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down a significant decision in The Regents of the University of California & Others v Eurolab (Pty) Ltd & Others; a case that turned on a deceptively simple question: who is legally entitled to apply for a patent under South African...

When a private home becomes the centrepiece of a Bad Bunny production, the legal foundations may be just as important as the concrete ones. Eighty-four-year-old Puerto Rican homeowner Román Carrasco Delgado ("Carrasco"), who says he designed and built his distinctive salmon-coloured home with ...