JIPEL Vol. 13 – No. 1
Our Fall 2023 Issue—Volume 13, Number 1—takes a step back to reimagine foundations of IP law as the source of, and potentially the solution to, modern problems. First, Professor Zachary…
Beyond Incentives: Copyright in the Age of Algorithmic Production
Zachary L. Catanzaro* Download a PDF version of this article here. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems disrupt longstanding assumptions about creativity, originality, and copyright law. Traditionally, copyright law is premised…
Beyond Free Markets and Consumer Autonomy: Rethinking Consumer Financial Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Jason Jia-Xi Wu* Download a PDF version of this article here. The rampant growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped the landscape of credit underwriting and distribution in consumer financial…
International Implementation of the Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents: How to Save Foreign Generic Terms From Appropriation
Albert Simonyan * Download a PDF version of this article here. Trademark protection became a subject of international regulations decades ago. However, in the modern era of globalization and international…
The Horrors of Copyright Law: An Analysis of Character Copyright Issues & Iconic Horror Villains
Alexa Browning Download a PDF version of this article here. Character copyrightability is a complex and nuanced legal issue that the courts have wrestled with for decades. Due to this,…
Working Stiff: Extending the Statutory Labor Dispute Exemption to WWE Wrestlers
Charles Hill Download a PDF version of this article here. Introduction I. Labor in Professional Wrestling II. The Statutory Labor Dispute Exemption A. The Origins of the Statutory Labor Dispute…
Understanding Artifact Repatriation through the Lens of Intellectual Property
The Elgin Marbles were removed by a British aristocrat in the early 1800s from temple walls in Ottoman-controlled Greece. The sculpture collection was shipped and sold to the British government,…
What is the Place of Synthetic Data in US and EU Laws?
At the moment, the predominant source of data utilized for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is derived from events occurring in the physical world or from individual attributes (referred to…
The End of the Writers’ Strike. The Beginning of a Better Future?
The 2023 writers’ strike, the second longest one in Hollywood history, ended on September 27. As writers struggled to make ends meet, studio tourists turned to join the picket line,…
Deepfakes Unleashed: From Social Media to the Courtroom
While reading a New York Times article by Catharine A. MacKinnon for NYU Law’s Art Law Class with Professor Amy Adler, I was particularly struck by Mackinnon’s mention of Deepfakes…