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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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I came across this interesting paper (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo1095 ) over  the weekend that attempts to use neuroscience techniques to measure consumer confusion between two marks and might become a new form of evidence in trademark cases. In class, we learned that consumer surveys can sometimes be used to demonstrate whether there is confusion between two marks. […]

For my final LAW422 project, I wanted to explore the copyright protection and culture of copying among the crochet creators of YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. It is thanks to this online community that I was able to learn how to crochet many of my favourite fashion pieces and design some of my own. Therefore, rather […]

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MSCHF is a Brooklyn based art collective that has gained Internet stardom through controversial “drops” that remix pop culture and brands. (I had a lot of fun browsing through their latest drops, one of which includes the option to purchase paper shopping bags from luxury brands, aptly named “OnlyBags” so that purchasers can “flex”). Last […]

  Hi everyone! Today I learned about a really interesting community-led initiative that allows DJs to recognize the producers whose songs they play and share their fees with them. Its called Aslice and its a software that has features that allow DJs to report the artists and songs they play and compensate them. Although many […]

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This law suit reminded me of the interesting article a few weeks back on the copyright issues surrounding taking a photo of a someone with their phone. It also highlights another potential barrier to publishing images of someone else; despite your copyright, the subject may still have rights to privacy and publicity over their likeness […]

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 […]

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A number of novel uses of copyright were mentioned last lecture. This reminds me of the huge amount of false copyright claims that one of my favourite YouTubers, named ‘TwoSetViolin’ is facing. As a classical music comedy duo, they usually play classical music in the videos and they have already gotten more than 100 copyright […]