Francesca Montalvo is an Associate at the IP law firm of Ladas & Parry. She was editor-in-chief of Volume 32 of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal. In the year 2012 alone, the U.S. fashion industry generated over $330 billion…
A recent controversy within online gaming community involves the video blogger Anita Sarkeesian and her video series “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.” Sarkeesian’s video critiques the portrayal of women in video games and related media. However, this controversy is…
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).…
Author: Anthony R. Enriquez, J.D., New York University School of Law 2013. When portrait photographer Patrick Cariou saw that his original photos of Jamaican Rastafarians had been used by renowned appropriation artist Richard Prince in a collage series called “Canal…
Author: Sam Castree, III, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. Class of 2013 (For a more extensive treatment of this and related issues see A Problem Old as Pong: Video Game Cloning and the Proper Bounds of Video Game Copyrights) Advances in technology…
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…
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…
Author: Gill Benedek, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law We live in tumultuous times. Or so Professor David Nimmer, a prolific copyright law scholar, proposed during the Annual Burns Senior Lecture in Intellectual Property on January 17th 2013, at…
Author: Sam Castree, III, J.D Candidate, Class of 2013, Chicago-Kent College of Law Online media distribution has become big business in recent years. For example, Apple sold 10 billion songs on its iTunes platform between April 2003 and February 2010, an average of…
Author: Elsa Mitsoglou, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Dr. Elena Cooper has been the Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge since 2009. She is also a researcher at the Faculty of Law…
Author: Al Roundtree, J.D Candidate, Class of 2013, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law “What a prosperous looking bunch of lawyers,” was keynote speaker Scott Borchetta’s opening remark to the assembled group of entertainment lawyers, music industry professionals, and law students…