Welcome New Staff Editors!
The June writing competition is complete. We are pleased to congratulate our new staffers on being selected to join us for 2013-14! Transfer and January students are eligible to participate in the August competition.
Combating Counterfeits
Author: David Bonilla, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Counterfeiters continue to find creative and inventive ways to knock off goods and place those knockoffs in the marketplace. One need only take a brisk walk through Times…
Careers in Trademark Law
Author: David Bonilla, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Networking remains the name of the hiring-game. As the summer rapidly approaches and IP-minded Cardozo students continue their attempts to secure IP-related summer employment, Cardozo’s Intellectual Property Law…
With Great Internet Bandwidth Comes Great Responsibility…Maybe.
Author: Gill Benedek, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law We live in tumultuous times. Or so Professor David Nimmer, a prolific copyright law scholar, proposed during the Annual Burns Senior Lecture in Intellectual Property on January 17th 2013, at…
Why the Rise of Online Digital Media Stores Means Trouble for the DMCA
Author: Sam Castree, III, J.D Candidate, Class of 2013, Chicago-Kent College of Law Online media distribution has become big business in recent years. For example, Apple sold 10 billion songs on its iTunes platform between April 2003 and February 2010, an average of…
Dr. Elena Cooper Presents her Latest Article at Cardozo Law School: Copyright: A Nineteenth Century Publicity Right?
Author: Elsa Mitsoglou, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Dr. Elena Cooper has been the Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge since 2009. She is also a researcher at the Faculty of Law…
The American Invents Act and Economic Growth: A Discussion with Bernard Knight
Author: Adam Hirst, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law The Cardozo Intellectual Property Society hosted Mr. Bernard Knight, the current General Counsel of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), for a discussion of his role as the chief attorney…
Blogging without Logging FTC Lawsuits: A Panel Discussion
Author: Marc Pellegrino, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law The line is increasingly blurred between what content is or is not endorsed by a particular entity online. Social marketing outlets like Facebook and Twitter allow bloggers,…
Grammy Foundation, The Entertainment Law Initiative (“ELI”), Breakfast with ELI, October 23, 2012
Author: Al Roundtree, J.D Candidate, Class of 2013, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law “What a prosperous looking bunch of lawyers,” was keynote speaker Scott Borchetta’s opening remark to the assembled group of entertainment lawyers, music industry professionals, and law students…
Copyright’s Merger Doctrine as a Solution to Conflicts Between Copyright Law and Freedom of Speech
Author: Russell Hasan, Esq., Member of the Bar of the State of New York, J.D. UConn Law 2011 Some academics have raised concerns that copyright law might be in conflict with First Amendment free speech law. Some scholars fear that…