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  • Freelance Articles and Electronic Databases: Who Owns the Copyrights?
    By: Christine Soares There has long been uncertainty as to who owns the rights to digital reproductions of freelance articles. The Supreme Court has recently affirmed that copyrights for the digital reproduction of freelance ...
  • Copyrights in Computer-Generated Works: Whom, if Anyone, Do We Reward?
    By: Darin Glasser Computer-generated works raise grave authorship concerns under U.S. copyright law, with arguments in favor of allocating copyrights to the computer user, programmer, the computer itself, or some combination therein. The author ...
  • International Liability in Cyberspace
    By: Matthew Crane Activities in cyberspace often expose companies to “cybertorts”, a species of tort particularly difficult to reconcile with standard insurance policies. The author explores some of the difficulties in obtaining coverage for ...
  • The Clone Wars: The Growing Debate Over Federal Cloning Legislation
    By: John Garvish As readers of science fiction are well aware, the term “clone” refers to asexually produced offspring, that is, offspring produced by a process of cell-division which does not begin with the ...
  • Virtual Las Vegas: Regulate or Prohibit?
    By: Cara Franklin With online gambling becoming increasingly accessible and popular, state and federal politicians are asking themselves how to make the prohibition on online gambling effective. Nevertheless, questions still linger as to whether ...