In the Video Game Industry, NFTs are a Joke
Someone watching the recent Silent Hill announcement livestream would see live comments mockingly suggesting that Silent Hill NFTs were going to be announced. It’s not a surprise considering that Konami,…
Miami’s Tech Boom Sets Lawyers at the Forefront of Innovation
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez went viral in late 2020 after a venture capitalist’s tweet suggested that Silicon Valley should be relocated to Miami by responding, “How can I help?” Brief…
Decentralized Finance: The Big Picture
From its inception, Bitcoin was developed as a means to eliminate the middleman and decentralize financial transactions from government regulation. In fact, digital currencies can address the critical issue of…
Data Privacy in the Metaverse: Real Questions for Unreal Worlds
What do the Pokémon Go craze of the late 2010s, an Ariana Grande concert, and Microsoft’s acquisition of a video game company all have in common? The answer is the…
Fashion in the Metaverse
The announcement of Facebook’s plans to rebrand to Meta and launch its metaverse has come with many questions about the use of trademarked fashion in this new virtual world. The…
Failing to Deliver: How Recent New York Legislation Aimed at the Food Delivery Market Misses the Mark
New York City’s restaurant industry is a bedrock of this city’s cultural, social, and economic capital. However, the relationship between this industry and its customer-base is increasingly mediated by out-of-state,…
How NFTs Could Change the Music Industry – For Better or Worse
Non-fungible tokens, known colloquially as NFTs, have gained popularity due to both their scarcity and variety. NFTs can link to underlying assets that range from physical works of art to…
Nintendo’s Actions Demonstrate Our Intellectual Property Laws are Broken
Nintendo has a love-hate relationship with some of its biggest fans. The competitive Super Smash Bros. community, a group of hardcore gamers who compete head-to-head with one another in games…
Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality
From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ReBlink,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”…
The Legal Boundary of Data Scraping in Light of Van Buren v. United States
The controversial HiQ v. LinkedIn, 938 F.3d 985 (9th Cir. 2019) opinion concerning data scraping was vacated and remanded this June by the Supreme Court to be reconsidered in light…