By: Mayra Neimerck The “Blurred Lines” legal drama that began in August 2013 has finally come to its legal end. A federal jury ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s smash hit had infringed on the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up,” and subsequently awarded more than $7.3 million to… Read More “Blurred Lines” Copyright Case: Should it be Reversed?
By: Emily O’Toole There have been disturbing legal events in the state of Indiana regarding the equality of all citizens. Governor Mike Pence signed a “Religious Freedom Restoration Act”(https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/568#document-f6915f8f) into law. This bill purports to expand the religious freedoms of businesses. The Bill infringes on the rights of a state or local government to substantially burden… Read More Big Tech Companies Use their Position to Stand-up for Gay Rights in America
POSTED BY Olivia Vache Although Uber has been waging war around many U.S. cities, it has begun its rampage into other countries as well. Uber began its arduous journey to conquer the world with its sensible transportation alternative in 2012. One of the first stops for Uber is the highly regulated country of France. Many… Read More Snap, Crackle, Will UberPOP? OR UberPOP’s Explosive Intrusion into France’s Taxi Regulation
POSTED BY Linda Vo In a recent letter to its shareholders, Netflix addressed its growing concerns with Popcorn Time, a popular app that provides online streaming of pirated movies and television shows. Available across every major computer and smartphone operating system platform, the app is so popular that it is often called “the Netflix for… Read More Popcorn Time Pirated Movies App as Threat to Netflix
POSTED BY Linda Vo Just days after reaching a $105 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and other U.S. government agencies over mobile cramming, AT&T once again finds itself in court with the FTC. On October 28, 2014, the FTC filed a federal court complaint against AT&T, charging the telecommunications giant for data… Read More FTC Sues AT&T for “Data Throttling”
POSTED BY Joseph Rinaldi HomeAway, a vacation rental site, recently filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco in the hope of blocking the so-called “Airbnb law,” which officially legalized short-term home rentals in the city. Passed by the Board of Supervisors in October, the Airbnb law permits property owners and tenants to use websites… Read More The “Airbnb Law’s” Likely “Move-In” to Preserving Residential Zoning
(Folders vs. Metadata by John Norris is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ) By: Rajat Bhardwaj A bill amending the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act of 1979 was recently introduced in the House of Representative of Australia’s Parliament. This bill marks yet another initiative by governments to ensure national security though surveillance of Internet… Read More Australia's Data Retention Amendment
By: Nicole Cocozza Is music art? In a recent TIME article, Taylor Swift (“Swift), an American singer, answers in the affirmative. Swift states, “Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable.” Such opinion is what led Swift from pulling all her music from Spotify. Spotify is a popular… Read More Shake It Off -Taylor Swift v. Spotify
POSTED BY Emily O’Toole Article I Section 8 of The United States Constitution provides Congress with the authority to regulate and coin money in Clause 5. Clause 6 also grants Congress the authority to punish those that create counterfeit money. The ability to punish counterfeiters, however, is contingent on the ability to catch counterfeiters. … Read More ¬Could The Invention Of A New Printer Ink Made With Colloidal Photonic Crystals Be The Latest Defense To The Age Old Battle Against Counterfeit Currency?
By: Rebecca Rubin Walking in downtown Boston after retrieving your morning coffee, you probably glance at your phone two or three times and review your latest Facebook notification. Notifications are all well and good when you expect them, but what if you were walking around in the mall and every single store floods you with… Read More Beacon Sheds Light on Virtual Coupons and Privacy Woes
By: Samantha Keefe Earlier this week Apple unveiled its new app “Apple Pay.” With just a tap of the thumb, some iPhone users are now able to pay for many in-store purchases using their smart phones. With just a simple download of the iOS 8.1 software, those who have the new iPhone 6 or iPhone… Read More Apple Pay: Triumph or Fluke?
POSTED BY Olivia Vache As our community fears a rampant spread of Ebola, plane sabotage, and global climate change, the U.S. Appeals Court has decided that the next new terror in the American market is grains. I am not one to say that obesity isn’t a problem in the U.S., however this is not what the… Read More Grain-Dust, the next lethal weapon
By: Linda Vo Over the past few years, technological advancements have allowed people to streamline just about every aspect of their lives in one convenient place: their smartphones. Two weeks ago, Apple Pay was launched, enabling consumers to now securely store their credit card information on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices… Read More CurrentC’s Data Breach Results in Major Setback for the Apple Pay Rival
POSTED BY Micah-Shalom Kesselman JHTL will be hosting a panel on E-Sports on November 5th to discuss some of the topics mentioned in this post. E-Sports have grown from a niche hobby to a booming and rapidly expanding industry. With professional gamers now on salary for game studios, prize pools of nearly $11 million, and… Read More The Rapid Growth of E-Sports and the Lagging Law
POSTED BY Sardiaa Leney Since the passage of the Hatch-Waxman provisions 30 years ago, a fairly orderly market in generic small molecule drugs has developed, reducing the cost of some of the commonest medicines to a fraction of their pre-competition price points. Biologics medicines are another matter. Biologics are drugs comprising molecules so complex that… Read More Grandma Could Afford Her Arthritis Medication…If She Lived In Europe
POSTED BY Sardiaa Leney Recently, whistleblowers in ‘qui tam’ actions have claimed that medical devices and drugs with defects in manufacturing or compliance with applicable regulations supplied into government-funded health care programs are actionable under the Federal False Claims Act (FCA). A recent judgment in a long-running medical device suit in the District of Massachusetts… Read More How Much Trouble Can You Get Into For Selling Goods to the Government?
POSTED BY Nicole Cocozza “Most companies, when they’re doing good, they enjoy today’s wonderful life. They don’t worry about five years from later – but I worry about five years later.” ~Jack Ma The preceding quote is the philosophy behind the creator of the new global e-commerce company, Alibaba. Over the past month, this global… Read More Will Alibaba be Triumphant in the Global E-commerce Market?
POSTED BY Natasha Meserve Recently, Google, the famous search engine, has dealt with international issues, notably with its Autocomplete feature. This serious issue might potentially hold Google accountable for libel lawsuits regarding certain companies and people. More specifically, ones that are searched for and have certain potentially libelous words associated with its name. Google’s Autocomplete… Read More Potential Libel Action Against Google For The Autocomplete Feature
POSTED BY Andrew Glenny Two Judges in Ohio have recently decided that the license applications of people applying to become drivers for Uber and Lyft shall be kept secret to protect the companies’ trade secrets. The decision has been controversial amongst competing businesses, such as local taxi cab companies. Uber and Lyft are taxi services… Read More Uber and Lyft Licenses Deemed Trade Secrets
POSTED BY Alex Zamenof Earlier this year, Netflix and Comcast announced a special arrangement that the two have entered into: namely, that Netflix streaming will be faster for people who have Comcast as their ISP. In a recent article, I found a fantastic description that breaks down exactly how video traffic on the internet works:… Read More Netflix Refuses ISP Restrictions
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