Beyoncé’s Lemonade left a sour taste in at least one person’s mouth. Matthew Fulks, a Louisville-based filmmaker and creative director at the WDRB Kentucky news station, is taking the singer…
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N-C-Double Don’t: Student-Athletes’ Likenesses No Longer Free for Use
A landmark ruling on Friday August 8, 2014 determined that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (the “NCAA”) can no longer stop its athletes from selling the rights to their own names,…
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Court Rejects Class Action Settlement in Long-Standing Copyright Dispute Between Lawyers and Legal Publisher
An Ontario Superior Court has rejected a class action settlement between the publisher Thomson Reuters and a collection of Canadian lawyers and law firms, stating that the proposed settlement is…
Intellectual Property Rights in Non-Genetically Engineered Plant Species
In the past, Monsanto has been successful in defending the company’s patents concerning the genes and modified cells present in genetically modified (GM) plants in both the United States and…
Can Capitalism and Collaboration Co-exist? Tech Sector Cross-licensing and the Emergence of ‘Cooperative Competition’
In this year’s State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to addressing economic inequality by fostering the jobs of the future: “We know that…
IP Intensive Program: A Semester at TVO
I recently completed an IP Intensive Placement with TVOntario (TVO) and the experience could not have been any better. (more…)