We know that a painting attracts copyright protection, but there is no copyright in a particular pose, arrangement, or composition (in the artistic sense). This is for good reason, of course, or else we would probably have long run out of colours, subjects, and settings to depict in art.  But this reminded me of a […]

Welcome everyone. These days IP Law is constantly in the news. On top of what now seems like the quaint problems of digital replication and social media repurposing, there is a whole new dimensionality to the challenges which A.I. poses. Whatever derivative of whichever content you wish to generate, some partially hallucinated distorted refraction is […]

Links for the week: 24th of August 2025

Links for the week: 17th of August 2025

Term Project by Michelle Lee The link to the video is at the bottom. A few weeks ago, I learned that in 2003, a defamation suit was brought against the rapper Eminem by his childhood bully for allegedly slandering him in the song “Brain Damage”. The judge gave a ruling in the form of rap. […]