Congress created the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1914 to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce. In 1938, Congress gave the FTC the grant to enforce the prohibition on…
Earlier this year, a group of Northwestern University (NU) football players led by team quarterback and captain, Kain Colter, took a bold and unprecedented step toward forming a labor union…
Every now and then someone takes the internet and transplants into real life. And every now and then parody is so successfully employed as to benefit both the object and…
The question of how to deal with patent trolls has plagued patent academics and practitioners both. But the term patent troll is an empty one, which is defined differently in…
#instafood #delish #foodstagram They are the next best thing to “selfies.” Food pics. Yes, that’s right, the Instagram shots artistically taken to make all your followers believe that what you…
Once the prime vehicle of audiovisual media consumption, television has, in recent years, seen its role marginalized. With the advent of popular online streaming services, paying for a television subscription—or…
With only a few clicks and no fees, users in China and Iran turn on Hola to access Facebook. Users in the United States can use it now to stream…
The “Stick” Approach In 2003, a 12-year-old girl and a 71-year-old grandfather were among the 261 people served with lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[i] They were…
Three years ago, Judge Stanton of the Southern District of New York first granted summary judgment in favor of YouTube in what had become a long running dispute between media…
Choosing to keep intellectual property as trade secrets can place employers in a tough position: employers must expose intellectual property to certain employees so they can do their jobs, but…