Menu Close

Month: June 2021 (page 2 of 2)

🇰🇷 K-pop songs disappeared from Spotify 🎶

📰 On 1 March 2021, thousands of K-pop songs were removed from Spotify, making fans and artists frustrated. This was due to a licensing dispute between Spotify and Kakao Entertainment (a major South Korean music distributor). Fortunately, within 2 weeks, Spotify has announced that it has reached

Read More

⚖️ “Salt Bae” being hit with $5 million copyright suit 💸

📄 Nusr-et Gökçe, better known as “Salt Bae”, was sued for copyright infringement over an artwork showing his signature salt-sprinkling pose. This lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York on 12th April 2021 by a Brooklyn-based artist William Hicks, alleging “Salt Bae” for

Read More

📰 League of Legends vs. Mobile Legends

🗓️ In 2018, Tencent Holdings, the parent company of Riot Games, won a lawsuit against Moonton Technology’s CEO, XuZhenhua and was awarded 19.4 million Chinese Yuan ($2.9 million). Moonton Technology is the developer of Mobile Legends, a popular mobile game.

🎮 Other than the similarity of

Read More

💡 Can you copyright an “idea”? 🤔 🤔 🤔

💭 “I thought of how to make an electric car possible a long time ago, but someone else has stolen my idea!”

😞 Unfortunately, ideas cannot be copyrighted because they are not tangible. Copyright doesn’t protect ideas, but the expression of ideas. Your ideas need to be in some form of expression

Read More

🖊️ Who invented the ballpoint pen?

💡 In 1888, John J. Loud, a Harvard-educated lawyer and leather tanner patented the first ballpoint pen which worked on wood and leather. In his leather tanning business, he often had to mark up leather to note where to cut it, and found that a pencil couldn’t do the job and a fountain pen was

Read More

+603-5891 4846 +603-5879 9908

© 2025 NBS Intellectual Sdn Bhd. All rights reserved. By Netbusiness.