Intellectual property
Content and copyright.
Work that is being distributed, scraped or trained on without you. Content is the easiest thing in a business to copy and the hardest to prove you own, usually because nobody wrote down who made it.
What we handle
Owning it, and keeping it.
What copyright actually covers
What is protected, who actually owns it, and why an unregistered right is proved from your own records.
More on this ›Ownership of commissioned work
Establishing who owns what a freelancer, agency or contractor produced for you.
More on this ›Piracy and unauthorised distribution
Work being sold, shared or streamed by people with no right to it.
More on this ›Republication and scraping
Content lifted wholesale onto other sites, and the routes available to stop it.
More on this ›AI training rights
Where your work has been used to build something else, and what that means.
More on this ›Licensing
Letting others use the work on terms that hold, and on terms you can end.
More on this ›Takedowns and enforcement
Removal at scale, and what to do when removal alone is not working.
More on this ›Also under intellectual propertyBrands and trade marksPatents
Music, media and sport
Content in music, media and sport
Recordings, songs, footage and archive are content before they are anything else. Who owns them, who is entitled to the income, and who is using them without asking.
Most copyright problems start years earlier.
They start on the day nobody signed anything, and they surface on the day somebody asks. The work is usually part evidence and part reconstruction, and it is considerably easier before a dispute than during one.
Start a quiet conversation ›Insights
Reading on copyright, ownership and copying
- Copied content: proving the work was yours
- Generated material in your brand, and what you can rely on
- Owning your intellectual property: paying for work is not owning it