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drsarahhook.bsky.social

@drsarahhook.bsky.social
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Snr Lecturer in IP and Media Law. Researcher in legal impediments to freedom of expression, derivative creativity and moral rights. Opinions only mine.

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drsarahhook.bsky.social @drsarahhook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A benefit to the interdisciplinary fragmented nature of my scholarship - AI cant find my speciality so spam journals and AI PhD enquiries have trouble finding the ways to intersect making it easy to spot! My scholarship is underlying barriers to freedom of expression and speech, AI can’t read this.
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drsarahhook.bsky.social @drsarahhook.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My book is now available in paperback! www.routledge.com/Moral-Rights...
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Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author
This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author. The Romantic conception of authorship, as a lone genius, creat...
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Legal Style Blog @legalstyle.co.uk · 11/03/2025
I **ADORE** this little article from Green Bag by a federal judge explaining how he first coined a word and then worked to use it in an opinion so it could make it into Black's Law Dictionary greenbag.org/v13n2/v13n2_...
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drsarahhook.bsky.social @drsarahhook.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’ve not heard this distinction so much in Australia but agree it’s a terrible term! My students mostly find patents straightforward if technical, but copyright has more conceptual difficulties!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/12/2024
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇
Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.
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drsarahhook.bsky.social @drsarahhook.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The real story here is the lost argument to have ‘trade marks’ appear as two words. Appeals to the Constitution, the vibe and even the Act were not enough! Lovely working with @drmarieip.bsky.social and Associate Professor Vicki Huang for this piece: theconversation.com/rayguns-clai...
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Raygun’s claim against a parody musical may not stand up: here’s what the law says
Raygun is unlikely to be able to claim intellectual property over her name, her persona and her dance moves.
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Marie Hadley @drmarieip.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Day 1 Hacking Visual Culture @UTS. Setting the bar high for future art law conferences! Opening by @ijalexander.bsky.social, keynote from Prof Angie Abdilla, presentation by @culturedoug.bsky.social & @andeewallace.bsky.social & performance 'Artificial Symbosis' by Kurt Milkolajczyk & Anna Savery
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drsarahhook.bsky.social @drsarahhook.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I experimented with client interviews this semester in IP law as a way of avoiding AI exam responses and it worked better than I thought. The ability to prod, question and clarify really helped evaluate the students understanding. Still not sure how to do this at scale but a fun, robust assessment!
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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Stern on Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination @simon8.bsky.social / lawlit.blogspot.com/2024/11/ster...
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Stern on Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination @simon8.bsky.social @ArsScripta
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Law, has published Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination . Here is the abstract. Law and literatur...
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