JIPEL Vol. 8, No. 1 – Fall 2018
Legal journals are sometimes criticized as disconnected from the real world or labeled sounding chambers for academics. Like many of our favorite publications, our fall issue stands in stark contrast…
Is the Copyright Act Inconsistent with the Law of Employee Invention Assignment Contracts?
There is a latent conflict between the law of employee invention assignment contracts and the Copyright Act’s work for hire doctrine. Countless employees sign contracts specifying that, in most cases,…
Analyzing Aalmuhammed v. Lee in the Context of Entertainment Industry Employment
In Aalmuhammed v. Lee, the Ninth Circuit established a test for determining whether an individual contributor to a work may qualify as a joint author. The test identified three main…
“Prime Health” and the Regulation of Hybrid Healthcare
This article examines the possible constructs behind the announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are jointly building a new healthcare entity for their employees. In this…
Using the Economic Espionage Act to Protect Trade Secrets in Baseball
In 2016, Christopher Correa, a former employee of the St. Louis Cardinals, was sentenced to forty-six months in prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he accessed…