This Article will discuss the interface between intellectual property law and food. While this interface could yield many discussions, I focus on the relationship between haute cuisine as a social and cultural phenomenon and copyright law. The goal of this Article is to explain the mismatch...

Very recently, due largely to breakthroughs in deep learning technologies, AI has begun stepping into the shoes of human content generators and making valuable creative works at scale. Before the end of the decade, a significant amount of art, literature, music, software, and web content will...

The previous research has not reached a consensus on whether the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) stimulates innovation, especially in the digital era. And due to the lack of exogenous variation of copyright statute, solid evidence on the causal effect of copyright protection is...

Video games raise various legal questions and challenges for the IPR system, mainly due to the complexity and segmentation of the game and there is some particular problem with a particular video like trademark registration, and copyrighted content directly such as sound effects. The current...

This study provides that copyright exhaustion serves an important social function of reducing the cost of information costs. Without it, buyers will be required to waste time and resources inquiring about their ability to resell copyrighted work. Because resale rights are generally regarded as...

The Constitution grants Congress the power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts through the intellectual property clause. Scholars and the courts understand “progress” to mean an increase in the creation and dissemination of copyrighted works and patented inventions It is...

Back in 2012, I was talking with an acquaintance, who happens to be a copyright scholar, about a cease and desist letter that an artist had received from a publisher. The publisher objected to the artist’s display and sale of works that collaged cutouts from a comic book with new material...

This paper scrutinizes the effects of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on platform competition in media markets. Platforms that are Online Content-Sharing Service Providers must have a license agreement with collective management organizations that control the...

As members of legal fraternity judges, lawyers, academicians, researchers and students continuously engage in legal research and writing, the legal researchers and writers play a double role in their academic exercise as both creators and users of copyrighted materials. It means, they have...

Consumer protection could – by itself and distinctly from the users’ perspective – add a new dimension to copyright analysis. Considering users of creative works as consumers in the same sense as consumers of tangible goods can prove useful when facing the conflicts between copyright...