Baseball has become one of the most data-rich sports on the planet. Over the last decade, the amount of publicly available player data has exploded, and, in my opinion, that’s a big part of why the sport has grown the way it has. Fans aren’t just watching games anymore, they’re analysing spin rates, launch angles, […]

In my free time, I enjoy experimenting with video game development, and a large part of making a video game is collecting different assets to be used as the base components. Assets include music, models, textures, animations, sound effects, and artwork. These are all integral, and copyright protected, components of what makes a video game […]

By Robyn Burke Mellon Introduction: In recent years, plant-based diets have moved from the margins of consumer behaviour into the mainstream. People have begun to try vegetarianism and veganism or at the very least begun to make conscious efforts to reduce meat consumption in response to growing concerns about health and the environment, reshaping global […]

Since we are both avid motorsports fans, we thought the class discussions regarding Formula 1 (“F1”) and patent laws to be particularly interesting, especially given the current state of the sport and the new 2026 regulations. As we learned throughout this course, Canadian patent law is built on a social bargain between the inventor and the […]

A growing trend has emerged among athletes to utilize intellectual property law to protect personal brands that can be used for commercial purposes. For example, Chelsea Football Club midfielder, Cole Palmer, successfully trademarked ‘Cold Palmer’ and his signature celebration where he crosses his arms over his chest and mimics shivering.[1] Palmer now has rights controlling […]

The answer would be, well, many countries! One would not be wrong, though, to respond with “Canada” or “Singapore”. As an exchange student from Singapore, I thought it would be interesting to compare different aspects of both jurisdictions’ intellectual property law. Both countries are common law jurisdictions with their own statutes and case law. In […]

ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (The Birkin Bag Case-study) The high-end fashion luxury house Hermès is known globally to people from different walks of life. The brand is notoriously known for its exclusivity. Specifically for one of its models, the Birkin, often associated with the culture of being unreachable and with long waitlists, is often […]

In deciding what to write about, I was initially inspired by a TikTok video that explained how someone created an AI influencer and earned brand deals through that entirely artificial persona. The idea was funny at first, but it also raised a more serious question – specifically, what happens when the “persona” being monetized is […]

Introduction A recent Guardian report on a proposed Danish law to combat AI-generated deepfakes, by fundamentally rethinking copyright, raises a difficult question for Canadian intellectual property law: what would happen if copyright were extended to protect a person’s facial features, voice, or likeness from unauthorized AI replication? The Danish government plans to amend its copyright […]

*Note: any TikTok dance mentioned in this post has been linked below As a dancer of many years, viral TikTok dances have always intrigued me. While I have seen many come across my feed, I am not sure I could name the creator of any of them. To explore whether this was a broader pattern, […]

Working in hockey is one of, if not the largest reason why I decided to pursue going to law school. While negotiating player contracts and managing a team’s salary cap is what primarily interests me, the intellectual property side of the sport also intrigues me. It has always fascinated me that although NHL teams have […]

Background The technology of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is fast-evolving. Back when Alan Turing proposed the “Turing Test” in the 1950s – testing whether a human could determine which answer came from another human or a machine by asking questions and receiving answers from both – the technology seemed a far ways off from artificial intelligence. […]

Introduction After finishing the fifth A Song of Ice and Fire book by George R. R. Martin last year, I looked online to learn about when I could expect the sixth to be published. To my surprise, I discovered a dedicated fanbase that has now been waiting over 15 years for the next book in […]

(Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press) I wrote this blog post for three reasons. First, it was an opportunity to study for the upcoming IP exam. Second, I wanted to illustrate how pervasive IP is. It surprised me how deep I could go, and I realized that the title to this blog is misleading as I only scratched […]

Hello all! While doing this project, I thought about all the countless times that non-law students had asked me about what IP law was, and then when I explained it was copyright, trademarks, and patents, they responded with, “Oh sweet, so I can copyright ____?” If a family member, a friend, or even a foe […]