In June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office announced it will look at changes to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. Essentially, exhaustion of IP rights is a limit on the control that copyright holders and others have over physical distribution of their works, such as books, in markets around the world.

As containing original expression in a fixed form, the content of podcasts are rather obviously subject to copyright protection by the “author” – whether that is an individual person or a corporate entity.

A blog may seem quite like a personal newsletter or maybe a newspaper at first glance, but, according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), a blog may not be registered either as a newsletter or as a newspaper.