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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…

Sam Castree
September 13, 2014
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“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…

Cathay Y. N. Smith
June 20, 2014

Legalizing MMA: Mixed-Martial Arts, New York State, and Strategic Litigation

The sport of mixed-martial arts (“MMA”) continues to grow wildly in popularity. It boasts an avid and involved fan base and is widely available and watched on television. Yet, professional MMA events are banned in New York State. New York…

Sara Ross
June 15, 2014
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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…

Managing Editor
May 23, 2014

Panel: Resolving the conflict between the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CCPIA) and U.S. criminal law

In today’s panel concerning the reform of U.S. cultural property policy, panelists discussed whether there is a conflict between the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (“CPIA”) and the National Stolen Property Act (“NSPA”) and whether it creates a problem.…

Events Blogging
April 10, 2014
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Sarkeesian and Copyright: Testing the Boundaries of ‘Transformative’ Fair Use in Online Critique

A recent controversy within online gaming community involves the video blogger Anita Sarkeesian and her video series “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.” Sarkeesian’s video critiques the portrayal of women in video games and related media. However, this controversy is…

Joe Newman
April 8, 2014
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Panel: Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection

When you click “I agree” on a website’s privacy policy, are you really consenting to all the terms? Is that thick block of small-font text that makes up most companies’ privacy policies sufficient to give you notice of just…

Ryan Harkins: Big Data Means a Change in How We Consider Notice and Consent

Summary of Ryan Harkins’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In addition to making visiting more…

Lorrie Cranor: Privacy Notice and Choice in Practice

Summary of Lorrie Cranor’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Privacy policies are everywhere. Nearly every…