Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
MetaBirkins NFTs: is there an IP claim for Hermes?
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/h-rmes-sues-metabirkin-nft-190522448.html In this article, an American law professor professes his opinion that an NFT project called “MetaBirkins,” consisting of procedurally-generated digital art that is an obvious representation of a famous series of Hermes Birkin bags, does not violate any of the IP rights of Hermes. Kal Raustiala contends that the project would be covered by […]
New American legislation to protect vaccine manufacturers’ IP rights
Some interesting news for the last day of the term: there has been a bill introduced in the US that protects vaccine manufacturers against the Biden government, led by Republicans like Marco Rubio. The Republicans are expressing concern that if Biden issues waivers, China and Russia are going to use the vaccine inventions and “claim […]
Final Project: How can philosophy help us think about the boom in musical copyright cases?
Hello everyone! For my final project I am outing myself as a Podcaster and decided to do a podcast episode on my show about how we can use philosophy to think about problems in musical copyright cases. You can have a listen and read the bibliography and show description at the link below: https://ghorayeb.substack.com/p/how-can-philosophy-help-us-think?s=w You […]