Artificial Intelligence as an Inventive Tool and Its Implication to the PHOSITA Standard
Daniel Y. Lee is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. The age of AI-inventors may already be here. This year saw the first patent applications filed in…
How Indie is Indie: Employment and Copyright Considerations for the Independent Musicians Following AB-5
Patrick Reed is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. With the rise of Uber, Lyft, and an assortment of food delivery apps, the emergence of the “gig…
hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.: Scratching the Surface of Web Scraping
Neha Mehta is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Introduction to Data Scraping It’s hard to imagine how the Internet would function without web scraping. Web scraping,…
Dangerous Type: Arguments Against Copyright in the Visual Arts
Gus Longer is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Creativity breeds innovations. In turn, innovations benefit the creative individuals who birthed them, but more generally, they tend…
The Potential of 5G
Siddra Shah is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. 5G is the “fifth generation” of wireless technology. Each generation has incrementally improved mobile networks and wireless infrastructure.…
The Rise of Paparazzo v. Celebrity Lawsuits: Is Copyright Law Fair
Amanda Gonzalez Burton is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. It’s a tale as old as time. Girl dates boy. Boy gets photographed by a paparazzo while…
Draft Bill to Overhaul what is Eligible for a Patent
Magdalena Christoforou is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. On May 22, 2019, a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a draft bill to rewrite the law on…
California’s “Assembly Bill 5” Threatens Unintended Consequences for the Entertainment Industry
Caitlin Hall-Swan is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. If you’re an entertainer, your income comes from “projects” – you take one job here, another there. Actors…
Body Cameras, Law Enforcement, and Privacy Law
Advocacy of body camera policing reform has been growing in the United States in response to a widespread and increasing distrust of law enforcement among minority communities.[1] Body camera reform…
Should Taste Be Copyrightable? The Court of Justice of the European Union Thinks Not
A few months ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that taste cannot be copyrighted. The case arose between two competing cheese dip makers: Levola and Smilde.…