April 7, 2023
The States Take on Social Media
At the state level, debates rage over our “modern town squares,” with immense consequences for the future of the internet.
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April 6, 2023
United States v. Google LLC: Is Google’s Ad-Tech Stack Monopolizing Trade or Capturing Added-Value?
The Department of Justice is asking a federal court in Virginia to breakup Google’s advertising technology business. But is Google’s tech stack monopolizing the market? Or capturing value it creates
April 5, 2023
NIH Refuses to Employ “March-In” Rights in Petition to Lower Cancer Drug Costs
The National Institute of Health has once again denied the request to employ their authority under the Bayh-Dole Act to increase pharmaceutical accessibility and decrease costs of the popular cancer
April 4, 2023
Sarah Palin’s Sight on the First Amendment
The New York Times accidentally commented that Sarah Palin incited the assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. However, since Palin is a public figure and The New York Times didn’t intend
April 3, 2023
Johnson v. NCAA: The Next Step in NIL Legislation
After the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston, a group of college athletes is now challenging one of the foundational principles of college sports. As the Third Circuit
March 31, 2023
Getty Images Sues Stability AI: A Turning Point in AI Copyright
Getty Images filed suit lawsuit against Stability AI for their use of Getty's data to train their AI art generators, this could be covered by fair use, but there
March 30, 2023
Navigating Actors’ Publicity Rights in the Age of Deepfakes and A.I.
A.I., deepfakes, and C.G.I. are testing the limits of actors’ rights of publicity. In the absence of comprehensive federal regulation preserving publicity rights for individuals, advancing technology will only further
March 29, 2023
NFT Creator Resale Royalties: A History of Droit de Suite from Jean-François Millet to Robert Rauschenberg to SuperRare
Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) came with big promises of a new art ecosystem. A creator-first mentality manifested, in part, in the form of creator resale royalties (or droit de suite). Even
March 28, 2023
Will the “Real” Slim Shady Please Stand Up? Eminem Fights Back to Protect His Brand Against Two “Real” Housewives
Marshall Mathers has become involved in another trademark dispute, as he seeks to protect his Intellectual Property rights against two actors from The Real Housewives of Potomac. After Eminem opposed
March 27, 2023
From Copyrights to Capital: How Big Money is Changing the Music Publishing Landscape
The capital being invested into the purchase of music composition copyrights is at unprecedented highs, providing some artists with once-in-a-career windfalls and others with difficult questions about retaining ownership.
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