By: Evan Mason How important are the contracts you enter into as a minor? For most, these might include agreements for mobile phone applications or licensing a computer for school. For a fifteen-year-old Taylor Swift, it was signing on to the Big Machine Records for six studio albums, all of which would become multimillion sellers.… Read More Mastermind in Copyright Law (Taylor’s Version)
By: Andrew Cammarano “It was a hell of a round, Tiger” – the last line of the Tiger Woods and Nike Story. On January 8, 2024, Nike announced, via their Instagram account, that they would be parting ways with arguably the best golfer of all time. Tiger Woods, through his on-course dominance and off… Read More Tiger Woods: How a Golf Polo is at the Center of a Trademark Conversation
By: Eleni Tsokolas The fashion industry in general has always moved faster than the rest of the world, but there’s yet to be a brand as swift as Shein, which lists more than 6,000 new items on its website every day. But with great haste comes great waste, and the brand has been consistently under… Read More Shein Legal Trouble: Fast Fashion Leader Donning Unchic RICO Suits, Ferocious Forced Labor Faux Pas, and Unsustainable Fabrics.
By: Talya Torres YouTube, founded in 2005, receives over 2 billion monthly viewers. Twitch, founded in 2011, receives over 140 million monthly viewers. If you are wondering the difference between the two sites, besides the 6-year difference in founding and millions of viewers, you might not be shocked to find that YouTube is mainly known… Read More Are Your Favorite Streamers Breaking the Law?
By: Andrew Cammarano In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, eliminating the federal ban on sports gambling and allowing states to legalize sports gambling on their own accord. Now, over 30 states, including Washington D.C., have legalized sports betting and the emergence of online gambling has skyrocketed. Online… Read More Sports Betting: How a Gambling IP Could Change the Sportsbook Marketplace
By: Annabelle Hentz In the United States, copyright authorship may only be granted to works that are independently created by a human author and are sufficiently original. In a world where ever-changing technology continues to alter the scope of intellectual property and what works are inherently protected, artificial-intelligence-generated(“AI-generated”) images must be regulated. They must be… Read More Living Artists v. AI Generators: How to Avoid Non-Human Copyright Infringement
By: Annabelle Hentz Popstar and Grammy award winning singer-song writer, Justin Bieber, has sold his publishing and recorded music rights to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a jaw-dropping $200 million. The deal, announced on January 24, 2023, included Bieber’s entire back catalog—Hipgnosis Songs Capital acquired a 100% interest in Bieber’s publishing copyrights, the musician’s share of… Read More Baby, Baby, Baby Why Did I Sell My Masters
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
In Beverly Hills, CA police officers have been recorded on several instances playing copyrighted music by popular bands such as the Beatles and Sublime. The officers knew that the person recording them was livestreaming and played the copyrighted music in hopes that the automated copyright filters on the streaming platform would shut down the stream and prevent the cameraman from posting the recording online. The police’s conduct raises concerns over citizens 1st Amendment right to film police officers and could result in a lengthy legal battle and Supreme Court decision if the practice of playing copyrighted music isn’t stopped.… Read More New Police Tactic “Weaponizing” Copyright Raises First Amendment Violation Concerns