Creative Legal

24/01/2022

My passion is helping creative organizations succeed.

FR ENG About Quote Solutions About Creative Legal is a boutique law practice offering specialized services for creative-driven companies and organizations in Canada. Founded in 2009 by principal Kerry Williams, Creative Legal has established a proven track record of steering creative leaders to succ...

24/01/2022

The lawsuit alleges that Shopify “plays host, enabler, and protector to a world of digital textbook pirates” and “assists and profits from the online sale of infringing copies”

Five major publishing companies have filed a lawsuit against Shopify over pirated learning materials like PDFs of ebooks and test materials. Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, McGraw Hill...

24/01/2022

Do government-created intellectual property laws empower patent and copyright trolls and powerful corporate interests while limiting the free flow of information?

The United States Constitution explicitly calls for copyright and patent laws to "promote the progress of science and useful arts"...

24/01/2022

‘One Token That Rules Them All’

A cryptocurrency named after the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was deemed a trademark violation and barred from operating on Tuesday after the estate of author JRR Tolkien took the digita…

27/08/2021

An iconic Nirvana logo depicting a hellscape from a Dante translation is the most complicated copyright case in history.

Nirvana has been sued for using a 1949 illustration from Dante’s “Inferno” on merchandise. Is it the copyright infringement case from hell?

14/01/2020

They’re trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone.

The boom in copyright lawsuits is rattling the music industry — to the point where some artists and songwriters are spending tens of thousands of dollars on insurance policies

03/12/2019

It's probably a rational money-making decision for a lecherous media conglomerate that feeds on the souls of Baby Boomers to make a profit.

Rupert Murdoch has never met an irrational fear of the Boomer set that he couldn’t exploit for cash. Which is why Fox News filed a trademark for “OK Boomer” earlier this month, ju…

11/07/2019

The digital economy is a vast, interconnected set of technologies, companies, marketers and billions of humans shedding data every second.

How a nascent search engine became a tech behemoth, one edit at a time.

26/06/2019

No one owns the law, and no one should be able to copyright it.

10/04/2019

Copyright in music - the basics.

Sure, the fine print might be a pain to read, but the details matter, and understanding your rights is 100% necessary. Here's Copyright 101, with Sheryl Crow and Matt & Kim as your guides.

09/04/2019

In short, portions of the old work are incorporated into the new work but emerge imbued with a different character.

A judge praises the "highly creative" nature of "Oh, the Places You'll Boldly Go!" and doesn't see sufficient evidence that the book will harm Dr. Seuss' position in the children's book market.

01/02/2019

Jacobs used the smiley face logo in various unauthorized ways to promote its line, and used Nirvana references such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come as You Are” in marketing materials.

Band alleges the designer copied their classic logo for his “Redux Grunge” collection