Slides and video below. Again you will have a choice between both the original Zoom video and the in-class version of that video… Jon

(image sourced from: https://open.spotify.com/track/4i5hLY7mNIp70YhZveeItm)   Hello IP Law Class! I thought I would use this post to contextualize our discussion earlier on in the course regarding the connector model. The intersection between creativity and copyright is something I’m incredibly interested in, especially with respect to music sampling. Hip-hop/rap is one of my favourite genres and […]

Slides & two flavours of video (first being Zoom, second being classroom view) below…Please note that the slides don’t show up in the classroom view video till about 42 minutes in… Jon

Slides & video below… Jon

Slides & video below… Jon

Policy Considerations Underlying Initial Interest Confusion Hello everyone, Attached above is my term paper on policy considerations underlying initial interest confusion for anyone who is interested.  

Hi everyone! I want to elaborate more on the grant of copyright protection to an AI-generated work in the light of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (“CIPO”) decision we mentioned during our classes. The registered work is Suryast painting below. Photo Credits: Sukanya Sarkar (ManagingIP.com)   The co-authors identified are Raghav Artificial Intelligence Painting App […]

Hi everyone! I would like to share a recent Berlin Regional Court decision (Conway ./. Eder, 15 O 551/19) that I think is related to both our exam question and our discussions on the Andy Warhol Found. v. Goldsmith et al.[1] This decision can be seen as a win regarding the appropriation art in the […]

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 […]

Some interesting news for the last day of the term: there has been a bill introduced in the US that protects vaccine manufacturers against the Biden government, led by Republicans like Marco Rubio. The Republicans are expressing concern that if Biden issues waivers, China and Russia are going to use the vaccine inventions and “claim […]

Hello everyone! For my final project I am outing myself as a Podcaster and decided to do a podcast episode on my show about how we can use philosophy to think about problems in musical copyright cases. You can have a listen and read the bibliography and show description at the link below: https://ghorayeb.substack.com/p/how-can-philosophy-help-us-think?s=w You […]

Hello everyone! I never thought I would be writing about science but I went home for Easter weekend and was talking to my brother, who is a PhD student in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. He’s been doing research on genetics, and I was talking to him about patents and the Harvard Mouse case. At the […]