Communications Law
Righting Copywrongs & The Psychedelic Visions of George Clinton
I heard a wonderful interview on the drive home today. Tom Power of CBC was interviewing the legendary George Clinton. For those of you unfamiliar (which I hope isn’t many), George Clinton is the brilliant mind behind Parliament (go listen to Give Up the Funk), Funkadelic (go listen to Maggot Brain), and of course, Parliament-Funkadelic. […]
Week 5 Fall 2023 – Slides & Video
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Perverse Incentives
Hi all, I wanted to share a podcast episode I listened to recently. The podcast, “The Daily” by the New York Times, discussed how Gilead (a pharmaceutical company) delayed the release of a new version of a drug to maximize its profits from existing patents. Gilead initially developed a drug for H.I.V. treatment which had […]
Week 4 Fall 2023 – Slides & Video
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A Copyright of a Copyright
Hello! I found this interesting article regarding a copy copywriting another copy! Humans of Bombay – one of the many unauthorized spin-offs of Humans of New York – is suing People of India for copyright infringement. Humans of Bombay is claiming that their photo format (posting a photo of an individual with an excerpt of […]
Google & AI
Hi everyone, I stumbled upon this update about Google’s use of generative AI and thought a deeper dive into some of their new uses of AI would be interesting. As seen in this news article, Google has joined Microsoft, Adobe, and others in pledging to protect consumers who use their generative AI products from IP […]
Copyrightable Titles?
Looking at Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Corp Ltd [Francis] made me think of a few artists who could possibly challenge the general rule that there is no separate copyright in the title of the work, or rather, satisfy the exception. The quote regarding the exception to the rule: …provided that [the title] […]
Netflix vs Game Company – Rebel Moon
If you are like me and enjoy Sci-fi movies and games or messy contract disputes, this article will be an interesting one! Recently, California-based game company Evil Genius Games (“EG”) sued Netflix for breach of contract over the streaming giant’s forthcoming new science fiction series “Rebel Moon”. The contract between Netflix and EG agreed on […]