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Jared de Canha

Jared de Canha is an admitted attorney and associate in the Trade Mark Litigation Department in Pretoria. He served his articles of clerkship at Adams & Adams after attaining his LLB and LLM degrees with distinction at the University of Pretoria in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Jared was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2022. He assists in a broad range of litigious intellectual property matters in South Africa, and throughout Africa.

Areas of specialisation:
Trade marks
- Trade mark litigation (Enforcement)
Copyright
- Copyright litigation (Enforcement)

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One work to rule them all?

Battle lines have recently been drawn, after fan fiction writer, Demetrious Polychron, filed a 250-million-dollar lawsuit against the Tolkien Estate and Amazon on the basis of copyright infringement. Mr Polychron claims that his novel, The Fellowship of the …

Ed Sheeran two-steps to victory in copyright dispute across the pond

Ed Sheeran’s victories continue to multiply, after a New York jury recently ruled that his song, Thinking Out Loud, does not infringe the copyright of well-known American song, Let’s Get It On, written by Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend. This 100-million-dollar claim…

Parody in South Africa – Addressing the Hippo in the room

A recent advertising parody has caused quite a stir at the watering hole and left consumers questioning whether Hippo.co.za may have been out of line. The...

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Jared de Canha

Articles by Jared de Canha

One work to rule them all?

Ed Sheeran two-steps to victory in copyright dispute across the pond

Parody in South Africa – Addressing the Hippo in the room

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