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…
Will—and Should—VARA Cover NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens, or “NFTs,” gained worldwide notoriety in the art world last year following the sale of Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days for a staggering $69 million at Christie’s.…
Clearing Opacity on Machine Learning Models for Health Data
Knowledge is power. Ask an owner of a valuable trade secret, and they will provide multiple reasons for taking their secret to the grave. Trade secret law is credited with…
Collaborating with the Federal System in Protecting Against International Cybertheft
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes many frailties and problems globally, including cybersecurity and trade secret vulnerabilities. When countries conduct coronavirus research collaboratively and competitively, multiple countries continuously report hackers targeting their…