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…

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…

AELJ Acquisitions Editor Wins IP Writing Contest

Kristen Niven, Acquisitions Editor of Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Volume 33, won first place in the  2014 Honorable William Conner Intellectual Property Law Writing Competition, awarded by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Her note, Towards a New…