Apple removed the Rewound app from the App Store this week. The app made it possible to add the design of an iPod Classic to an iPhone. The app was well-received by users, as it was very cleverly made. However, [...]
Billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer has bought the domain keepamericagreat.com, the slogan for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign. Moreover, the website www.keepamericagreat.com directs users to purchase Steyer’s bumper sticker that reads “Trump is a fraud and a failure.” [...]
The Canadian mining village of Asbestos wants to change its name. According to the mayor, the name limits the economic growth of the village. The village’s name is – obviously – linked to “asbestos”, a substance that used to be [...]
Rapper Jay-Z has sued an Australian author for trademark and copyright infringement over a children’s book. Jessica Chiha, the author of the children’s book “A B to Jay-Z” published in 2017 by her Kickstarter-funded company, has upset the rapper. Jay-Z's [...]
NASA has renamed a faraway ice planet after a major backlash over the name’s Nazi link. The farthest cosmic body ever visited by a space probe, which orbits somewhere in the Kuiper Belt, about a 1.6 billion kilometres beyond Pluto, [...]
You may have heard this: a banana artwork that was worth $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist. An artwork that sold this month for $120,000 and was hailed as “a symbol of global trade” has been eaten, in what might [...]
What if you strip a brand of its most iconic features: its logo, its distinctive packaging, its colour? Will it still be recognized as the famous brand that we all know? Or will all brands sort of blend together? Designer [...]
McDonald's in Portugal has apologized for the marketing slogan "Sundae Bloody Sundae" in his Halloween campaign. Many people reacted furiously to the slogan that refers to one of the bloodiest days during 'The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. The term 'Bloody [...]
Rock band The Eagles are suing a hotel over its name. The Eagles, perhaps best known for the 1976 classic "Hotel California" acquired the trademark for the name 'Hotel California' in the late 1970s. The hotel in question opened in [...]
A California federal court recently ruled in favour of the grunge band Nirvana in an ongoing case against fashion label Marc Jacobs. In December 2018 Nirvana filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marc Jacobs for stealing its iconic yellow and [...]