The Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Caitlin Muraca discusses her Note, Combating False Election Information in…
At a time when the internet’s potential was almost entirely unknown, members of Congress set forth to protect the diverse discourse, cultural development, and intellectual progression that the internet promised to offer. Congress boasted that the internet and other interactive…
Influencer culture has become a growing phenomenon with a new profession embodying nearly 50 million people with a market size of $104 billion. People are now choosing “influencer” as their career and turning to social media over college. The financial…
On May 24th, 2021, the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7072– “[A] sweeping set of restrictions on how the companies that run . . . [social media] websites shall moderate what is said on them.” The bill…
On Twitter, the question for copyright holders is not how to enforce their rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but whether to enforce them. Specifically, on Twitter, copyright holders can report any violations under the DMCA, and penalties…
Business owners have a lot to consider when starting a business. Competing with themselves should not be something they need to think about. However, for businesses dealing with counterfeiters, this is exactly what is happening. Counterfeit products are not new…
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) immunizes social media platforms, like Facebook, from liability of third party content. In other words, Facebook can’t be held liable for defamatory or offensive content posted by its users. In many ways,…
Introduction Section 230 immunity of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) shields internet service providers from liability for the content posted on their sites by third-party users in almost all instances. One such instance is libelous tweets, meaning Twitter cannot be…
“All that for a drop of blood.” Easter season would not truly be complete without a controversial story involving Satan. But how exactly does a tendentious music video involving a lap dance with the devil ultimately lead to a lawsuit…
Anyone with curly hair knows that using the right haircare products can be the difference between a good hair day and a bad hair day. Ordinary drug store products often do not cut it because they can contain harsh chemicals…
Did Dr. Bandy Lee Engage in Protected Speech When She Rendered an Opinion about Alan Dershowitz’s Mental Health Condition on Twitter? Background There is a raging debate about whether Yale University in terminating Dr. Bandy Lee’s contract violated her constitutional…
If you’ve been paying any attention to the latest cryptocurrency news and even if you haven’t you’ve probably heard something about the new NFT craze that has been sweeping the space. NFTs are “non-fungible tokens” that are stored on a…
