Communications Law
News of the Week; March 25, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Awful, Awful People Keep Trying To Trademark COVID And Coronavirus The Utility of Recent Force Majeure Amendments to Canadian Trademark Law Federal Court of Appeal remands Remicade new use patent decision on anticipation and obviousness (Trade)mark America Great Again: Should Political Slogans Be Able to Receive Trademark Protection? (Katherine Kerrick) Newspaper Can Talk […]
News of the Week; March 18, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Industry Committee Recommends Adding Digital Lock Exception to USMCA Copyright Provisions (Michael Geist) False Start for Paparazzi in Copyright Suit Cruz v. Cox Media Group: District court holds Cox Media Group liable for copyright infringement due […]
News of the Week; March 11, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System NYU Law School’s Video Teaching Copyright Completely Flummoxed YouTube’s Copyright Filters Protective Orders Alive and Well in Canadian IP Litigation: The Federal Court of Appeal has recently put to rest concerns about the availability of “protective orders” in IP litigation. Managing Canadian Trademark Applications Under […]
News of the Week; March 4, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Can someone copyright every possible melody? (Andres Guadamuz) Simple Solutions Simply Don’t Suffice to Solve the Slew of Song Infringement Substantial Similarity Suits Castillo v. G&M Realty L.P.: 2nd Circuit affirms $6.75 million damages against property owner for painting over graffiti art at 5Pointz exhibition, ruling that works were protected under Visual Artists […]
News of the Week; February 26, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain: Damien Riehl & Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a drive, then turned it around to the commons. Attempt To Put Every Musical Melody Into The Public Domain Demonstrates Craziness Of Modern Copyright Can a Machine Be Considered an […]
News of the Week; February 19, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The Copyright Board’s Access Copyright Post Secondary Decision: The Incorrect Correction (Howard Knopf) Oops, the Board did it again, and again, and again (Ariel Katz) Moschino Counterpunches on Cardi B Paparazzi Pic District Court Grants Judgment on the Pleadings, in Part, in Kanye West Copyright Suit Let Go of My LEGOs: Copyright Protection […]