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Experimenting With Territoriality: Pan-European Music License and the Persistence of Old Paradigms
By: Ana Eduarda Santos This article tells the story of what could have been an interesting and important shift in our approach to territoriality in the digitalized world. Europe had the chance to be the cradle of an unprecedented copyright … Continue reading
Posted in International
Commercial Skipping Technology and the New Market Dynamic: The Relevance of Antitrust Law to an Emerging Technology
By: Jesse Haskins Commercial-skipping technology can liberate the consumer and make the television business more competitive. It rose to prominence with the advent of the digital video recorder (DVR), also known as the personal video recorder (PVR). PVRs have helped … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
Circumventing Access Controls Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Analyzing the SecuROM Debate
By: David Fry Despite using one of the most sophisticated digital rights management systems currently available, the video game Spore was illegally downloaded approximately 1.7 million times between September and December of 2008, making it the most widely pirated game … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
Spore, DRM, and Pirates: UCITA and Market Realities
By: Charles Yeh The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) attempts to regulate a nonexistent market failure. Regulators must understand the two market relationships in the software industry, the producer-consumer relationship and the producer-thief relationship, before they can draft effective … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
Circumventing Authority: Loopholes in the DMCA’s Access Controls
By: Adam L. Rucker In a world where digital pirates freely roam the internet, seemingly plundering at will, the providers of digital content must find a way to protect their valuable assets. Digital fences afford that protection–but not very well. … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
Electronically Stored Information: Balancing Free Discovery With Limits on Abuse
By: Patricia Groot The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the Rules) have long sought to limit abuses that developed under the traditional presumption favoring free discovery. The 2006 amendments to the Rules are specifically aimed at curbing abuses associated with … Continue reading
Posted in eDiscovery
Green Technology in Developing Countries: Creating Accessibility Through a Global Exchange Forum
By: Michael Hasper As they pursue economic development, developing countries possess high demand for processes and technologies that have climate-friendly methods or alternatives. However, these nations currently face barriers to entry because of trade policies and intellectual property regulations that … Continue reading
Posted in Patents & Technology
The Future of Generic Biologics: Should the United States “Follow-On” the European Pathway?
By: Ingrid Kaldre The United States is embarking on a biotechnology drug revolution. In the last few decades, biotech drugs have saved millions of lives, and the market for these miracle cures continues to grow at an astronomical rate. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Biotechnology
Legal Approaches to Promote Technological Solutions to Climate Change
By: Daniel Van Fleet Technological advancement is widely viewed as an essential component to any effective climate change strategy. However, there is no consensus as to the degree to which the law should promote technological innovation and development. This iBrief … Continue reading
Posted in Patents & Technology
McKithen v. Brown: Due Process and Post-Conviction DNA Testing
By: Elizabeth A. Laughton When the Second Circuit decided McKithen v. Brown, it joined an ever-growing list of courts faced with a difficult and pressing issue of both constitutional and criminal law: is there a federal constitutional right of post-conviction … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Biotechnology
The U.S. On Tilt: Why the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act Is a Bad Bet
By: Gerd Alexander The United States federal government’s attempts to curb Internet gambling are beginning to resemble a game of whack-a-mole. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (the “UIGEA” or “Act”) represents its most recent attack on Internet … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Communications
Taxation of Virtual Assets
By: Scott Wisniewski The development of vast social networks through Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games has created in-game communities in which virtual assets have real-world values. The question has thus arisen whether such virtual assets are legal subjects of taxation. … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Communications
On the Perils of Inadequate Analogies
By: Dan Tammuz Linking law is barely a decade old. Over the course of this short period, a wide variety of approaches have come to light. In fact, different jurisdictions have come to different conclusions regarding similar issues. Recently, there … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
FCC Regulation: Indecency by Interest Groups
By: Patricia Daza FCC regulations are among the most controversial administrative law regulations because of their impact on broadcast television. This iBrief analyzes the history of FCC regulation and highlights the problems associated with the current model. Applying theories of … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Communications
Regulating Nanotechnology: A Private–Public Insurance Solution
By: Maksim Rakhlin Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize innovation in nearly every industry. However, nanomaterials’ novel properties pose potentially significant health and environmental risks. Views in the current debate over nanotechnology regulation range from halting all research and development to allowing … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Biotechnology
Is the Internet a Viable Threat to Representative Democracy?
By: David M. Thompson The Internet, despite its relatively recent advent, is critical to millions of Americans’ way of life. Although the Internet arguably opens new opportunities for citizens to become more directly involved in their government, some scholars fear … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Communications
Domain Tasting Is Taking Over the Internet as a Result of ICANN’s “Add Grace Period”
By: Christopher Healey When a domain name is registered, the registrant is given five days to cancel for a full refund. While the purpose of this grace period is to protect those who innocently err in the registration process, speculators … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights & Trademarks
Operation Restoration: How Can Patent Holders Protect Themselves From Medimmune?
By: Stephanie Chu The Supreme Court’s recent decision in MedImmune v. Genentech shifts the balance of power in license agreements from patent holders to their licensees. This iBrief outlines the potential implications of the new rules on all stages of … Continue reading
Posted in Patents & Technology
Encouraging Corporate Innovation for Our Homeland During the Best of Times for the Worst of Times: Extending Safety Act Protections to Natural Disasters’
By: Ava A. Harter This article first analyzes the innovative tort reform of the SAFETY Act and then argues for expansion of SAFETY Act type risk protection to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires. The SAFETY Act was … Continue reading
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A Budding Theory of Willful Patent Infringement: Orange Books, Colored Pills, and Greener Verdicts
By: Christopher A. Harkins The rules of engagement in the brand-name versus generic-drug war are rapidly changing. Brand-name manufacturers face increasing competition from Canadian manufacturers of generic drugs, online drug companies, and Wal-Mart® Super Centers deciding to cash in by … Continue reading
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us—Or Is It? Reflections on Copyright, the First Amendment and Google’s Use of Others’ Content
By: David Kohler Using a variety of technological innovations, Google became a multi-billion dollar content-delivery business without owning or licensing much of the content that it uses. Google’s principal justification for why this strategy does not contravene the intellectual property … Continue reading
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Walking the Line: Why the Presumption Against Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Patent Law Should Limit the Reach of 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)
By: Jennifer Giordano-Coltart The advent of the digital era and the global market pose unique challenges to intellectual property law. To adapt, U.S. patent laws require constant interpretation in the face of rapidly changing technological advances. In AT&T Corp. v. … Continue reading
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Where Will Consumers Find Privacy Protection From RFIDs?: A Case for Federal Legislation
By: Serena G. Stein With the birth of RFID technology, businesses gained the ability to tag products with practically invisible computer chips that relay information about consumer behavior to remote databases. Such tagging permits retailers and manufacturers to track the … Continue reading
Posted in Patents & Technology
Is Kelly Shifting Under Google’s Feet? New Ninth Circuit Impact on the Google Library Project Litigation
By: Cameron W. Westin The Google Library Project presents what many consider to be the perfect fair-use problem. The legal debate surrounding the Library Project has centered on the Ninth Circuit’s Kelly v. Arriba Soft. Yet recent case law presents … Continue reading
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Does Information Beget Information?
By: Dennis S. Karjala Using the language of mathematics, Professor Polk Wagner has recently argued that the impossibility of fully appropriating the value of information in a rightsholder leads to the surprising conclusion that expanding the degree of control of … Continue reading
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