By: Erin Howlin If you look closely at some logos or the inside cover of a book, you’ll discover a small “C” enclosed by a circle. Although small, this symbol represents a protection that a company or brand has from others copying their work. The Copyright Act of 1976 is the basis of copyright law… Read More The C with the Circle: How American Copyright Laws Affect Technology and Vice Versa
By: Andrew Ciulla In 2018, the Supreme Court paved the way for states to legalize sports betting by striking down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, passed in 1992, by a 6 to 3 vote. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act prohibited sports betting except in four states where it had already been… Read More Massachusetts is All In on Sports Betting: How Governor Baker’s New Bill Will Dramatically Affect Residents’ Gambling Ability
By: Aleksandra Conway Silina Mobileye, an Intel subsidiary acquired in 2017 for $15.3 billion, develops chips, maps, and software for self-driving cars. Mobileye has filed for an initial public offering (“IPO”). Mobileye works with BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen, and other major car companies, developing its own fleet of autonomous vehicles for shipping and livery services. Intel’s… Read More Does AV need an IV?
By: Alexandra Evarts Apple, Inc. launched its newest Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Series 8, at its annual iPhone conference in September. Using the Apple Watch Series 8, users will now be able to track their fertility through wrist temperature data. With the launch of this new fertility tracking feature coming just a few months… Read More Apple’s New Fertility Tracking Feature Presents New Privacy Concerns Under Dobbs
By: Kendall Casey Picture this: you meet someone on a dating app, develop a relationship, and then they ask, “Can I teach you to invest in crypto?” Naturally, you want to know more about what they are interested in, so it sounds like a great idea when they suggest investing to start a future together. … Read More Penniless and Partnerless: Cryptocurrency Romance Scams Target Younger, Tech-Savvy Victims
By: Lily Keene Increasingly, digital products are now a part of everyday life, opening the door to a new era of marketing. With the growing popularity of social media platforms, many companies have shifted to various forms of digital marketing, including using social media “influencers” to curate promotional content for their brands. Utilizing TikTok trends… Read More Vicarious Copyright Infringement Through Social Media Marketing
By: Karlie Rubin Non-fungible tokens, otherwise known as NFTs, are quickly sweeping through the cryptocurrency market making a name for themselves valued by the richest of the rich. Although NFTs are seemingly acting like cryptocurrency, every NFT has a unique identification code and metadata that distinguishes them from each other. When NFTs first hit the… Read More Why NFT Marketgoers Should Be Weary of Copyright Laws Before Buying Into the Hype
By: Catherine Nicholson Non-Fungible Tokens, more commonly known as “NFTs,” are a digital form of artwork that can be bought and sold on OpenSea – the largest and most commonly used NFT Marketplace. NFTs have recently taken the technology world by storm within the past two years and their rapid increase in popularity can be… Read More NFT Scammer’s Recent Rug-Pull Leaves Purchasers Defrauded and Feeling “Frostie”
By: Annabelle Hentz Resident “cool girl” Hailey Bieber launched her first ever skincare line, “rhode,” this past summer. While her launch was met with excitement from her almost 50 million Instagram followers, it was also welcomed with a trademark infringement lawsuit. Less than a week after its launch, New York based fashion line RHODE (herein “RHODE-NYC”),… Read More Hailey Bieber: On the Rhode to Continuing Trademark Infringement
By: Elliot Hangos If you are reading this right now, I would like to try an experiment. Go onto Google and search for any NFL or MLB team as if you were looking to buy a jersey. Notice the amount of scrolling you have to do before you find any link that does not direct… Read More Licensing Deals, Online Retail Markets, and Antitrust Litigation: How the MLB, NFL and Fanatics Alleged Monopolization Could be Affecting Consumers
By: Kiara D. Benac Although art generated by algorithms has been around for years, the emergence of new programs that use machine learning to transform words into images within seconds, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, has become not only trendy but also controversial. Historically, controversy has followed the introduction of new art-making technology.… Read More Artificially Intelligent Artists?
By: Katie LePage On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) declared through its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization that abortion is no longer a fundamental Constitutional right. Without a federal data privacy law in place, the Dobbs decision raises serious concerns about how women’s personal data, such as menstrual… Read More The Future of Data Privacy Living in a Post-Roe World
By: Molly Codeanne Parents always tell their children that what they say, post, like, and share on social media sticks around forever and can have unintended consequences down the line if you are not careful. Judges must heed this advice and exercise heightened caution when engaging in social media as the courts have disqualified more… Read More Judges’ Presence on Social Media: Dangers of Posting, Liking, and Sharing
By: Alex Crowley “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to… Read More Geofence Warrants: Investigatory Tool or Constitutional Violation?
By: Theodore Brothers Electric vehicles, once thought to be a fairytale of the future, will soon become a familiar reality for many new car owners in California. The California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) recently approved the Advanced Clean Cars II plan which will require that all new vehicles sold in California be zero-emission vehicles (“ZEVs”) by… Read More Zero Emissions: A Race to a Cleaner California
By: Jacob Hartzler “[T]elling the story of the forging on the Rings of Power is a privilege and a responsibility. I hope we do Tolkien’s work justice.” These are the words that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos relayed in an email to Time Magazine. In November of 2017, Amazon released that it had paid an eye-popping… Read More Owning a World That Isn’t Yours
By: Casey Reilly Last month, two federal United States agencies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), indicated their separate intent to tighten existing consumer security protocols. The CFPB issued a circular, which is a policy statement that advises relevant authorities on how to enforce federal laws related to consumer… Read More Federal Agencies Indicate Intentions to Tighten Data Security Controls
By: Douglas DeBettencourt Google is in trouble again for allegedly violating the privacy rights of millions of Illinois residents through different YouTube features that supposedly store their data. In Marschke v. YouTube LLC, Brad Marschke brought a class action suit against YouTube, which is owned by Google, alleging that YouTube had violated Illinois’ Biometric Information… Read More BIPA Strikes Again: YouTube Becomes the Latest Way Google is Allegedly Violating Your Privacy Rights
By: Erin Howlin “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Thomas Jefferson uttered these words when America was newly freed and a democracy was just being born, however, these words remain true today. In the spring of 2022, Elon Musk offered Twitter $44 billion dollars… Read More Deal or No Deal: Constitutional Rights and Elon’s Big Plan
By: Aleksandra Conway Silina The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) started aggressively enforcing antitrust policy in 2021. The reforms, which took place in 2021, broadened the authority of the commission to investigate alleged anticompetitive conduct, as well as mergers in digital markets, pharmaceuticals, and other specific markets. Prior to the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta (Facebook and… Read More That’s So Meta: Potential Acquisition of “Within” Brings Concern from the FTC