Tatsuya Adachi is Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 34, and J.D. Candidate, 2016, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Introduction Flo & Eddie—performers of the Turtles’ hit record “Happy Together”—have recently been engaging in…
On Monday, April 11th, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed a lawsuit brought by a number of artists to recover resale royalties from auction houses that sold their art. The decision is the latest chapter in a legal battle…
On November 10, 2015, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (pictured) ordered daily fantasy sports (DFS) sites like FanDuel and DraftKings to immediately cease New York operations on the grounds that their businesses constitute illegal gambling. The general public, as…
Powerball fever recently struck the nation. An estimated $1.5 billion jackpot had everyone talking. Hoping. Dreaming. With a single Powerball ticket cost at $2, one can imagine saving each and every dollar in order to purchase a ticket at a…
The 2015 Golden Globe winning Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, The Martian,[1] is a movie about an astronaut, played by Matt Damon, who was left stranded on Mars after being presumed dead as the result of a storm.[2] He…
The stage has officially been set for one of the largest biotech patent disputes to date. The stakes are high in this clash between scientific powerhouses: a potential Nobel Prize, the patent rights to a breakthrough gene-editing process, and (of…
As Virtual Reality entertainment finally finds itself in consumers’ hands, the leaders have taken a bold stance on what legal rights they claim over user-generated content. While one front runner, Oculus Rift, estimates a shipping date in August 2016, they…
From the moment that FanDuel and DraftKings received the cease-and-desist notice from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on November 10, 2015,[i] both sides have constantly gone back and forth in the courts to determine the legality of daily fantasy sports. The…
Self-driving cars have been an appealing futuristic goal since before KITT on Knight Rider. The United States Department of Defense created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to promote the development of self-driving cars. Congress has allowed DARPA to…
One area of the law that is sure to be a hotly contested issue in the near future is copyright infringement through the use of mobile live streaming applications.[1] The two most popular mobile live streaming applications are Meerkat,[2] and…
The iconic selfie has become synonymous with today’s generation of pop culture. From teens to moms—even teen moms—selfies have penetrated our society as the go-to method for documenting nearly everything with our pretty faces front and center. That’s why in…
In 2014, Canadian recording artist Kiesza released the music video for “Hideaway,” which later became a number one song. The video, which has over 300 million views on YouTube and has been nominated for numerous awards, features the artist dancing…
