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“Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” – “Baby Got Back,” Glee, and Moral Rights
Author: Joe Newman, Legal and Policy Fellow at The Future of Privacy Forum The story of Jonathan Coulton and song copying on Glee was one of the biggest copyright-related stories of 2012, with plenty of media coverage (and even a fictionalized TV adaptation).…
Wired and Laced—The Future of Fashion and Technology
Author: Gwendolen Akard, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Class of 2015; AELJ Volume 32 Staff Editor The future of fashion patents is always changing and evolving. On February 7th, some of the industry’s key players discussed hot topics in…
THE BRCA PATENTS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SCIENCE EXCERPT
Amie Gibbons, Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D. 2013 Consider these scenarios: A man on the run from a corporation who has the rights to a specific gene line in his body, and the willingness to take samples from him by…
GUERILLA RADIO: How Unlicensed Live TV Retransmissions Threaten the Music Industry
Brandon Sherman, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D. 2013 Since February 2012, online live TV service “Aereo” has given its subscribers the ability to watch, record and replay over-the-air (“OTA”) broadcast television on any Internet-connected device. Since Aereo’s technology…
Is Your Birthday Suit an Intangible Medium of Expression or Are You Bound to the Shackles of Copyright Law?
Arrielle Millstein, J.D., Widener University School of Law 2013 (For more extensive treatment of this topic, including policy considerations as to why Congress should amend the 1976 Copyright Act to classify human flesh as an intangible medium of expression, see…