Happy New Year!
The Editors and Staff at the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal wish you a happy new year. This spring, we are looking forward to providing you two more issues of Volume 32, two symposia with free CLE, and another…
Tetris Holding v. Xio Interactive Isn’t as Great a Case as Video Game Developers Think It Is
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…
Save the Date – April 10th Cultural Property Event
The Committee for Cultural Policy and the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) will be hosting a symposium at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on April 10, 2014 at 2 pm. Tentatively titled, Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy: Accountability, Transparency, and…
“Share His Dream” getting Shared in Callmann’s Treatise
Joshua Bloomgarden’s note, Share His Dream: A Fair Use Standard for Historico-Political Figures’ Rights of Publicity, 31 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 149, has been cited by Callmann on Unfair Compet., TMs, & Monopolies in Section 22:32, Use of a natural person’s identity;…
“Stealing Bacardi’s Thunder” Cited by Treatise
We are so proud to congratulate our Volume 31 Editor-in-Chief, Sarah L. Farhadian, on having her Note cited by Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies (4th Edition). Sarah’s Note, Stealing Bacardi’s Thunder: Why the Patent and Trademark Office Should Stop Registering…
THE BRCA PATENTS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SCIENCE EXCERPT
Amie Gibbons, Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D. 2013 Consider these scenarios: A man on the run from a corporation who has the rights to a specific gene line in his body, and the willingness to take samples from him by…
GUERILLA RADIO: How Unlicensed Live TV Retransmissions Threaten the Music Industry
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…
Is Your Birthday Suit an Intangible Medium of Expression or Are You Bound to the Shackles of Copyright Law?
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…
Annual AELJ Alumni Reception
All AELJ Alumni are invited to attend our annual reception at WinedUp Wine Bar, 913 Broadway, New York, NY on Thursday, November 7, 2013. Please RSVP by November 1, 2013. To receive updates on all alumni happenings, please email al****@ca*********.com .…
Announcing Publication of 31.3!
The Staff and Editors of Volume 31 are pleased to announce that Volume 31, Issue 3 is on it’s way to subscribers, directly from the publisher. Grab a sneak peek of new scholarship from David Nimmer, Victoria Ekstrand, Richard…