Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
Hey Raymond, Can I Copyright That?
Hello everyone, Welcome to my short, “Hey Raymond, Can I Copyright That? In this 10 minute movie, you will find reference to the Copyright Act R.S.C (1985) C-42. I explore the question of “Hey Raymond, Can I Copyright That?” through 5 scenarios: sports move, fashion, artistic work, musical piece and literary piece. Each vignette holds […]
Pokemon Case Settled
I was reading recent news update from earlier this month and saw that Pokemon has settled its lawsuit against an alleged copycat mobile game maker Pocket Monster: Remake. In September, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court ruled in favour of The Pokémon Company, ordering the defendants to pay ¥107m ($15m) for unfair competition. This is still […]
HOW ITALY (AND EUROPE) ATTEMPTED TO TRADEMARK ITS FOOD
Food is sacred to Italians: they do not eat to live, they live to eat. That is why Italian food is so special. Apart from ontological considerations, the Italian cuisine market was estimated to be valued at 353 billion Canadian Dollars[1]. Out of this massive number, only 123 billion Canadian Dollars are represented by internal market production or […]
‘Ghiblifying’ and Copyright
If like me, you’ve been spending a little too much time on social media in the past week, you’ve probably come across the new trend of using ChatGPT to ‘Ghiblify’ a photo. Since OpenAI’s new image-generation tools were launched last week, users have been prompting ChatGPT to recreate their photos in ‘Studio Ghibli style’. Studio […]
Copyright Law in Las Vegas?
This past weekend, I was in Las Vegas for a short trip, and while I should have been focused on not losing all my money to the slot machines, I found myself fixated on something else entirely: did Paris Las Vegas or New York New York have to pay licensing fees to create those massive […]