Communications Law
Stacie Wiebe
Journey to Mount Fire (…or is it Mount Doom?): Passing-Off & Fandom Creations
For my final project, I wanted to take a deeper look at passing-off implications for fandom creations. Specifically, the implications for a new app that is based almost exclusively upon the journey that Frodo Baggins took in the Lord of the Rings (“LOTR”) series. On December 28, 2023 I stepped out my virtual hill house in […]
In Memory of Pirate Joe’s (aka: “Irate Joe’s”)
While not a new development (Pirate Joe’s closed its doors in 2017), I was recently at a Trader Joe’s in Washington and remembered the days when we didn’t have to cross a border twice and drive 3 hours to get the good cheese. After looking up a few articles to see why the “smuggling store” […]
Cheap Replicas on Foreign Website (Temu)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-woodworking-business-website-stolen-ornament-design-1.7082661 A Regina business is offering a cautionary tale about shopping on discount websites after finding a cheap replica of one of its designs for sale. Sticks and Doodles is a hand-crafted woodworking and ornament store in Regina. A customer informed the owners after finding a Sticks and Doodles design — a grain elevator ornament — […]