Posted by All Information Here on Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The leading American patent law blog,
Patently O, reminds us that even serious law folk can have a lighter side once in a while (though not often enough, I would say).
James Dailey and Ryan Davidson, bloggers of
Law and the Multiverse, have turned their blog into a book "
Law of Superheroes" that will be a delight to all comic-geek lawyers. As excerpted from Patently O:
(T)he book answers many IP questions that may have vexed comic book readers:
- Does Batman's use of Wayne Enterprises' advanced technologies to stop crimes (at night) negate patentability?
- Does Spiderman infringe any genetic engineering patents?
- In our universe, the Beatles broke up and John Lennon died. However, there are other (far better) universes where that did not happen. What copyright laws would apply when someone wants distribute copies of the Beatles' 40thAnniversary Album that was brought back from that alternate universe?
One of the book's thirteen chapters focuses on intellectual property. But the book as a whole covers a host of topics ranging from Constitutional law to immigration; from criminal procedure to the legal treatment of non-human intelligence.
IP law is relatively a new arena in India, of course. But I hope that as our academics and authors grow more comfortable with it, they won't hesitate to take a look at the lighter side of life once in a while too. For instance, I would really like an answer to a question that a friend, Kunal Ambasta once posed to me: who would've had the copyright over Mahabharata -
Ganesha or Vyasa?