Just months after celebrating her first-ever Grammy win for the hit song “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus now faces a federal copyright lawsuit. On September 16th, 2024, the singer was accused of…
The development of intellectual property rights has long been celebrated for creating incentives for innovation and progress. In the global tech landscape, patents are often viewed as crucial for fostering…
With the rise of AI image generators, even an artistically untalented law student like myself can depict nearly anything imaginable within minutes. By typing “Mario eating a slice of pizza…
In 2022, Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes conducted an interview with Aaron Elster, a holocaust survivor. What was unique about this interview, beyond Elster’s harrowing testimony, was the fact that he had died…
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…
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…
Within the deluge of articles and news reports regarding the Trump campaign and the recent election, the most unlikely headline of the bunch to catch my eye involved the Village…
Did you know that a temporary tattoo almost blocked a major motion picture from coming to theaters near you? In Whitmill v. Warner Bros. Ent. Inc., No. 4:11-cv-752 (E.D. Mo.…
On Friday, September 25, 2020, the legal world lost the iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Ginsburg had a long and prolific…
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the song hit song, Blurred Lines by artists, Pharell Williams, Robin Thicke and Clifford Harris Jr, infringed on the copyright…