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Part of the wider international IP group, our copyright practice offers multi-jurisdictional coverage of the full range of legal services relating to the protection, exploitation and clearance of copyright.

We have leading practitioners throughout each of our international jurisdictions, offering expertise in clearance advice and liability opinions, particularly those involving online use or new technology, copyright levies, licensing, disputes and litigation, audits and policy programmes.

We work across all sectors and advise on an equally diverse range of clients, including advising high profile literary estates, on copyright enforcement; mobile telephony companies, on copyright advisory structures for downloadable ring tones; and ISPs, on matters relating to user generated content on high profile social networking sites. We are particularly strong in the Media, E-commerce and Communications sectors.

Heads of Group: Morag Macdonald & Christian Harmsen

News & Updates

Press Releases

Bird & Bird scoops four top awards for Intellectual Property

01-04-2009

Bird & Bird’s IP Group has won four awards at this year’s Managing IP Global Awards ceremony in London. - The firm’s International Intellectual Property Group, led by Morag Macdonald
Bird & Bird strengthens in Germany with double partner hire

19-01-2009

International law firm Bird & Bird today announces the appointments of partners Dr. Wolfgang Hess and Sven-Erik Heun, who join the firm in Frankfurt from Lovells and Willkie Farr &
Law firms Bird & Bird and Lane & Partners LLP to merge

18-09-2008

International law firm Bird & Bird and renowned London firm Lane & Partners LLP today announce that they are to merge under the Bird & Bird brand, with effect from

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Articles

Collective Licensing of Music in Europe – A Legal Perspective

December, 2009

Within Europe, music licensing has traditionally been dealt with on a country-by-country basis as individual copyright owners assign the worldwide exploitation rights in their works to their national collecting society,
Copyright Term Extension in the EU – Sound Recordings

June, 2009

This article was first published in the June 2009 edition of the World Intellectual Property Review. - Under the current EU Copyright Term Directive (2006/116/EC) (“the Directive”), the term of
The Pirate Bay verdict – the end of the beginning?

April, 2009

As has been extensively reported, four representatives of the Swedish origin (reports vary as to where it is actually based) file sharing site The Pirate Bay were found guilty of

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