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10/10/2021

Cadbury’s famously lost the trademark to their specific Cadbury’s purple, and now it looks like another chocolate brand might be going to court to protect the distinctive lilac colour of their bars.

Mondelez believes Primal Pantry's vegan fruit bar "exploits" the trademark of its Milka chocolates.

09/10/2021

Award winning filmmaker Gus Van Sant has just produced his first-ever work for the stage, a musical looking at the early career of Greenlight represented icon Andy Warhol.

US filmmaker, writer, painter, photographer and musician, Gus Van Sant, is now turning his hand to theatre with a new musical in Lisbon about the early career of Pop Art creator, Andy Warhol.

08/10/2021

Filmmaker Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah Burns discuss their new PBS documentary about Muhammad Ali with Vox discussing his captivating personality and why their documentary offers a new perspective on the legendary man.

The filmmaker and his daughter Sarah Burns discuss their new PBS documentary about Muhammad Ali.

07/10/2021

to when the Greenlight team researched the rights owners of various artworks and secured photographic as well as artists copyrights for works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Paul Klee for Zara’s educational film about the Bauhaus movement and its heritage.

The Solution To illustrate a long form educational film about the Bauhaus movement and its heritage, Zara wanted to use images showcasing the Bauhaus style.  Greenlight researched rights owners of various artworks and secured photographic as well as artists copyrights for works by artists such as W...

06/10/2021

Greenlight represented icon Charlie Chaplin is one of the most beloved and recognizable screen legends of all time.

05/10/2021

Smash hit Netflix show “Stranger Things” have just released their trailer for season 4, which is soundtracked by the classic Ella Fitzgerald version of “Dream A Little Dream Of Me”.

The song gives the trailer a dream-like quality, with Fitzgerald’s classic, instantly recognizable voice giving the visual a nostalgic tint.

04/10/2021

A 54 page manuscript with Albert Einstein’s handwritten calculations for his theory of relativity is due to be auctioned in Paris next month. This is one of only two surviving documents showing the workings from the theory of relativity and is estimated to sell for €3m.

The rare document, which records attempts to explain an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury, is ‘a fascinating dive into the mind of the greatest scientist of the 20th century’

03/10/2021

A powerful visionary, and leader of the American civil rights movement, Dr Martin Luther King Jr continues to inspire people around the world and is our Greenlight icon of the month. If you’d like to align your next campaign with Martin Luther King please get in touch with us.

02/10/2021

It was 80 years ago today that Albert Einstein delivered his famous speech “The Common Language of Science,”. This aired over BBC radio at London’s Science Conference. You can hear the great man himself in an original recording of the piece in the link below.

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”

01/10/2021

Arguably the world's most recognizable athlete, it was today in 1975 that Muhammad Ali beat Joe Frazier in the legendary "Thrilla in Manilla" fight.

30/09/2021

When Cinch and their agency Iris Worldwide wanted to show that using their app and website is as easy as being a plastic surgeon for Mr Potato Head, Greenlight were happy to assist in obtaining the permissions needed from rights holder Hasbro.

The Solution Cinch and their agency Iris Worldwide wanted to find ways of highlighting how easy it is to use the new Cinch app and website, and what is easier than performing cosmetic surgery on Mr.Potato Head? Greenlight assisted the client in obtaining permissions and facilitating the approval pro...