Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
Josh Lerner and Brandon Cormier
Trade Secret Law
Trade Secrets Hi everyone! Brandon and I were talking about things IP law might not cover. While chatting we started thinking about things like secret recipes or processes, and stumbled upon trade secrets as a branch of IP law. Looking further into it, we realized that this is both an important type of Intellectual Property […]
EDM Video with Live Sampling
IMG_9742 Hi everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying reading break. I wanted to share this video I took last Friday night at an EDM concert. In the clip, Timmy Trumpet is sampling a song by David Guetta, which is in turn itself sampling a song by Eiffel 65. It reminded me of our discussion last class […]
Air Fryers and Patents
After our class today on patents, I wanted to see whether it applied to my current favourite cooking appliance, air fryers! I found the link online to one of the patents for air fryers that show the history of that patent and the photos as well. I have attached the link below: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4817509A/en Additionally, I […]
IP x Nike x Off White – Post
I have been a sneakerhead for more than half of my life, and I distinctly remember the exact day that the coveted Nike x Off White collaboration, designed by Off White’s visionary creator Virgil Abloh, was released in limited quantities to the general public. Off White, a luxury streetwear style brand, is well known for […]
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 […]
NFTs and IP in Dance Moves?
Hello everyone, I found this article describing a performance on the Ellen DeGeneres show that featured NFT animated dancers: https://decrypt.co/95735/nft-band-debuts-singer-kiesza-ellen-degeneres-show. The dance moves executed by the dancers (who are Chewbacca-like rainbow-coloured furry humanoids) are apparently stored on the blockchain. What’s interesting in the context of this course is how the artist leading the performance suggests […]