Have the Terminators Come Home to Roost?
David E. Wright is a J.D. candidate, 2020 at NYU School of Law. If one were to read any among the spate of articles that were written in the wake…
Learning Robots Confront Copyright Law
Siyu Yan is an L.L.M. candidate, 2020 at NYU School of Law. With the development of AI, many learning robots are emerging in China. A learning robot is a type…
Copyright Transfer Terminations: What Happened?
Ryan B. McLeod is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Copyright transfer termination, sometimes called copyright “recapture,” is a statutory provision within the 1976 Copyright Act that…
Pay the Players… For Their IP
Zachary M. Broner is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Should a student-athlete have a right to their own name, image, and likeness? For decades, the National…
Mercedes Benz v. Street Artists: Scope of Copyright Protection for Street Art
Francesca Masella is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. The unauthorized adornment of streets, often referred to as graffiti, started becoming positively recognized as street art in…
JIPEL Vol. 9, No. 1 – Fall 2019
Our Fall 2019 issue, Volume 9, Issue 1, includes an exciting and rich collection of works that spans an unusually broad, yet timely and relevant, variety of topics in the…
Change Or Be Changed: A Proposal for the NCAA to Combat Corruption and Unfairness by Proactively Reforming Its Regulation of Athlete Publicity Rights
This Article addresses the black market for college athlete services that results from the NCAA's restrictions on athlete compensation based on the purported need to preserve amateurism. Specifically, this Article…
Failed Strategy: Using Trade Secret Laws to Assert Ownership of Employees’ Social Media Accounts in the Journalism Industry
It’s the policy of an increasing number of news outlets to retain ownership of the professional social media accounts of their reporters. In the first case of its kind in…
Of Coase and Copyrights: The Law and Economics of Literary Fan Art
This Article explores the law and economics of “literary fan art”—unauthorized derivative works by third parties that are based on someone else’s literary work product. What is the legal status…
Does It Still Take Two to Tango? A Modern Interpretation of the BPCIA’s Patent Dance
Since 1996, the annual spending on drugs per capita in the U.S. has been the highest among all the developed countries. In 2017, the number reached $1220 per person in…