Copyright Infringement

Australian cosmetics giant MCoBeauty has attracted global attention for its strikingly similar beauty dupes, but the company has kept the details of its product development process out of the spotlight — until now.

Small beauty entrepreneurs say they are struggling to stop copies of their cosmetics being released because they don't have the legal budgets to fight big companies that are self-confessed dupers.

Australian cosmetics company MCoBeauty has become a multi-million-dollar business by "duping" popular beauty products. But its success hasn't been without controversy, after pushing the boundaries of the law too far in the past.

ABC Investigations has uncovered how an international network of so-called "AI Pimps" are mass-harvesting women's social media videos to peddle porn through fake influencers.

An "art-ivist" author who has rewritten Banjo Paterson’s The Man from Snowy River to remove animal cruelty says he will not be discouraged by "hostile" feedback.

Sarah luke was facing almost two-million dollars in fines but has now had her case over trademark infringements struck out.

Training AI models on copyrighted materials has led to an array of high-profile lawsuits against developers such as OpenAI and Meta. Can the models be "untrained" or is the genie out of the bottle?

Continual price hikes and fragmentation of services have seen some Australians ditch their streaming services in favour of film and TV piracy. 

The database Books3 contains more than 180,000 works of literature that were taken without permission from authors to develop AI linguistic software.

Tank, who recently spoke out about his designs being sold by the Chinese online retail giant, says Australians have "good standards" and "don't want to see anyone be ripped off for a fair day's work".

Art and legal experts say copyright infringements online are on the rise and one of the contemporary art world's greatest challenges.

The case involved images Warhol created of Prince as part of a 1984 commission for Vanity Fair.

In the closely watched copyright lawsuit, the jury determined that heirs of Let's Get It On songwriter Ed Townsend had not proven that Sheeran had infringed his copyright interest in the Gaye song.

Heirs of Marvin Gaye's Lets Get It On co-songwriter are suing UK pop star Ed Sheeran for copyright infringement — so, when does inspiration become copyright infringement?

An Australian fashion designer who shares her name with American singer Katy Perry is entitled to an injunction to prevent one of the pop star's corporate interests from further infringing on her trademark, a judge rules.

It's not the first time Ed Sheeran has faced trial for a copyright issue. Here's what's happening with his current trial — brought by the heirs of the late Marvin Gaye co-writer, Ed Townsend — and how his team have defended him so far. 

The heirs of Ed Townsend, Marvin Gaye's co-writer on Let's Get it On, are suing Ed Sheeran, alleging the English pop star's hit 2014 tune Thinking Out Loud has "striking similarities" to the 1973 soul classic.

After having copyright of an 18-page graphic novel rejected because an AI produced the images, artist Kris Kashtanova is testing the limits of what the US Copyright Office considers to be "human authorship".

AI image generators are learning from human illustrators without their consent. Now artists are speaking out.

A US judge issues a temporary restraining order against the rappers two days after Vogue's publisher sued the pair for creating a counterfeit cover.

The iPod has an undeniable legacy, but is there a future for one of Apple's most important products?

Zoom has been accused of sharing users' personal data but denies any wrongdoing. 

Centuries after swashbuckling buccaneers like Captain Blackbeard terrorised the Caribbean, pirates are back troubling the waters off Trinidad and Tobago.

The 6,609 songs listed as banned due to concerns over copyright include many titles from popular Hong Kong and Taiwan artists, like Eason Chan, GEM and A-Mei.

Stamping out piracy off the Somali coast is making a significant dent in the number of annual global piracy cases, but a downturn in oil prices is leading to a spike in pirate kidnappings for ransoms off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea.