Non-Delegable Duties: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
This article discusses the ambit of a non-delegable duty in the context of the responsibilities of schools for the safety of students under their care. The unfortunate accident of a student on a compulsory school trip to the Maldives brings
In Service of Justice and Fairness
Professor David Tan from NUS Law sits down with former Chief Justice and former Attorney General Chan Sek Keong for a chat about his life in the law and his reflections on lawyering and the Law Society.
Fashion and Intellectual Property
Miuccia Prada said in an interview: “The job is to do something interesting with ideas … and if it is copied I couldn’t care less.”
Copyright Fair Use in the Face of Technological Developments: Staying Ahead or Limping Behind? – Part 2
Specific Technological Developments and Fair Use – Two Case Studies At the time of writing, there are over a dozen lawsuits since the start of 2023 against companies such as OpenAI and Stability AI for using copyright-protected works in the training of
Copyright Fair Use in the Face of Technological Developments: Staying Ahead or Limping Behind? (Part 1)
Introduction Open-ended fair use and categorical fair dealing provisions both temper the exclusive rights of copyright owners to foster further creative expression by permitting secondary uses of copyrighted works, providing the primary mechanism to balance copyright protection with the broader public
Sinfully Sinpopo
Most of us in the legal fraternity would be familiar with the story of how Lyn Lee, who graduated from NUS Law in 1996, went on to establish Awfully Chocolate, which is now found all over Singapore and whose products
Not Really a Case of Everything Everywhere All at Once: Trademarks and the Metaverse
This article highlights how the development of the metaverse and the proliferation of collectible non-fungible tokens can have significant implications for trademark law.
The Best Things in Life are Not for Free: Copyright and Generative AI Learning
Generative AI tools like Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion must have access to millions of text and images in order for them to learn and eventually generate output successfully in response to user commands. The key question for copyright lawyers
AI and Copyright: Death of the Author?
Is the postmodern condition of the death of the author in literary criticism fast becoming a reality in copyright law? Not yet. The limitless potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse information, execute complex tasks, create and invent, has yet
“We Don’t Need Permission to Dance”: Key Features of the New Copyright Act 2021
Dance as a metaphor connotes relationships between control and experimentation, order and improvisation, purpose and play. The Copyright Bill 2021 which was passed in September 2021, and is expected to come into force before the end of the year, is