In 2021, artist Mason Rothschild launched metabirkins.com and announced that he would be selling non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) called MetaBirkins. The MetaBirkins offering consisted of 100 NFTs depicted as fury purses that resembled the well-known Birkin bag. Hermѐs, owner of the BIRKIN trademark as well as the BIRKIN trade dress, took issue with Rothschild’s MetaBirkins NFTs […]
Author: Dr. Rys Farthing Seven years ago, Australia passed its first online safety bill, the Enhancing Online Safety Actupdating and expanding it in 2021 with the Online Safety Act. While both Acts had problems and pitfalls, these were ‘global firsts’ at attempts to legislate to address the problem. As the UK’s Online Safety Bills slowly […]
Harvard law professor and Twitter liberal Laurence Tribe fell for a fake tweet showing a screenshot purportedly from Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced his child was “immaculately conceived.” The fabricated screenshot, shared by a Twitter user, attributes a tweet to the Republican governor’s official Twitter account, with the text, “Much like my Lord and Savior […]
On 24 November 2022, the Australian Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP announced the Attorney-General’s Department’s intention to release an issues paper for public consultation, as the first stage of a review into Australia’s current copyright enforcement regime. The broad aim of the review is to understand: Current and emerging copyright enforcement priorities and […]
Comment on this story Comment KYIV — The 25 Russians convicted so far of war crimes in Ukrainian courts include a soldier who was forced two Ukrainians at gunpoint to hand over laptops and money, four who beat and tortured Ukrainian soldiers and two who admitted shelling residential buildings in the first weeks of the […]
Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th January 2023, the court will hear the case of Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others. The issue in this case is whether the Court of Appeal erred […]
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of The Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) between November 24, 2021 and July 11, 2022both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), of the important February 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action […]
Small Business Debt Recovery Small businesses are prime targets for invoices being left unpaid. Unlike a large business with a dedicated accounting department, small business owners often manage their accounts themselves or use a bookkeeper on occasion. This makes it exceedingly difficult to monitor and manage invoices, as well as outlay ongoing fees for an […]