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Suggestions for Bitcoin Regulation
Bitcoin is widely relevant. Just look at the variety of Bitcoin-related accounts on Instagram, including one where a family of four is travelling around the United States using only Bitcoins. Bitcoin has also been introduced to mainstream consumers across the…
That Facebook Hoax Explained
“Better safe than sorry right. Channel 13 news was just talking about this change in Facebook’s privacy policy. Better safe than sorry. As of January 3rd, 2015 at 11:43am Easter standard time. I do not give Facebook or any entities…
3D Printing and Beyond Seminar: Emerging IP Issues with 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal hosted its Spring Symposium on Monday, February 2nd, 2015. The heavy precipitation and frigid temperatures did not stop practitioners, scholars and students alike from coming together in impressive numbers to engage in a…
Getting Up to Speed: The Disconnect Over Municipal Broadband
Since the inception of the Internet, users have demanded faster download and upload speeds in order to quickly access and share webpages, news, photos, and videos. During the 1990s, most Internet users accessed the web through “dial-up” modems, where access…
Crowdfunding an Independent Film Project
Crowdfunding describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by individuals who network and pool their money via a preferred Internet platform to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. The “crowd” in crowdfunding is comprised of online donors from…
Intersection of Art and Criminal Law: The Ethics of True Crime
True crime reporting has long captivated audiences. By reporting details of an actual crime in a sensationalized way, the genre is often described as “infotainment” – the blending of information and entertainment. The modern genre was likely inaugurated by Truman…
Crowdfunding and Its Impact on Indie Film
Crowdfunding has become a popular new way for filmmakers as well as entrepreneurs, small businesses, and philanthropists to raise capital by obtaining small contributions from a large number of individuals over the Internet. Websites such as Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, RocketHub, and…
Apple Pay: More Personal Information, Less Privacy Concerns
Recently, it seems almost every week there is a new data breach at a particularly large retailer. If you’ve ever used a credit card at the store, a slight panic sets in that your information could have been stolen. You…
Protecting Fashion: A Comparative Analysis of Fashion Design Protection in the U.S. and Europe
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…
Real Jail for WoW-Crimes?
Recently, a British politician suggested that theft of virtual items in online games should be punished like real theft. Mike Weatherley – by day the chief adviser on intellectual property to the Prime Minister, by night a mighty hero of…
“Copyright is for losers©™” : Street Art Flourishes in Intellectual Property’s Negative Space
((“Copyright is for losers©™” is attributed to Banksy)) To exist in intellectual property’s “negative space” is characterized as existing in “the territory where IP law might regulate, but (perhaps for accidental or nonessential reasons) does not.” ((Kal Raustiala and Christopher…