Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
Ed Sheeran being sued for Copyright Infringement
Ed Sheeran is being sued for Copyright Infringement claiming he copied his hit song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. He is being sued by Heirs of Gaye’s co-writer, Ed Townsend, who argue that Sheeran, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing owe them money for allegedly stealing the song. The trial […]
AI Drake and AI The Weeknd?
While I was procrastinating from studying for various exams, I came across a new song by Drake and The Weeknd. As the title of the post suggests, the song was actually AI generated using Drake and The Weeknd vocals. The artist (“Ghostwriter977”) wrote the lyrics, recorded the vocals, and used AI to replace their vocals […]
Foreign Language Trademarks
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us that Canadians are multilingual, especially to anyone who has lived in any of the metropolitan cities such as Vancouver or Toronto. According to the last Statistics Canada census, in 2021, 41.2% of people in Canada can conduct a conversation in more than one language and […]
Illuminating the NHL’s Blackout Rule
The other night, I got home after class and turned on my Sportsnet Now streaming channel to watch that evening’s broadcast of the Edmonton Oilers game. However, I was instead greeted with a message stating that the game was unavailable due to “regional or national blackout restrictions”. Given that I am a rational adult, I […]
CRISPR-Cas9: A Patent Contest
What is CRISPR-Cas9? By weight, there are over 27 times more bacteria than all animals combined. The most numerous organisms on earth are by far the viruses that utilize these bacteria as hosts, called bacteriophages. As one researcher colourfully put it: there are “approximately a trillion phages for every grain of sand in the world”. […]
Week 13 Slides & Video
Slides & video below… Jon
Virtual Reality in Museums and Intellectual Property Law
Hello everyone! I’ve been interested in how IP law applies to virtual reality technology and decided look more into its use in museums and the legal issues that may arise. Professor Festinger, I would like to submit this post as my LAW 422 final paper. Thank you. ————————————————————————————————- VIRTUAL REALITY IN MUSEUMS AND INTELLECTUAL […]
Patent by PlayStation for Temperature-Controlled Haptic Feedback
I stumbled upon this article that reports on a new patent by PlayStation for temperature in their haptic feedback. Controller patents seem to be a huge area where video game and console developers patent technology. There have been massive innovations in controller tech over the decades, and it’s always interesting to see what will come […]
Industrial design rights and remedies in Canada reaffirmed by Crocs Canada v. Double Diamond
Hello, everyone. I was going through some of the previous posts on the website and was intrigued by the MSCHF in Law post. It led me down a footwear spiral and I also came across this case where the Federal Court of Canada in Crocs Canada, Inc. and Crocs Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution Ltd. […]
Week 12 Slides & Video
Slides & video below… Jon