Blog Posts
Getting What You Want Isn’t Always What You Need: Why California AB5 May Not Be the End-All-Be-All for Models After All
Jun. 25, 2021—By Betina A. Baumgarten Though the modeling industry’s image is one premised on perfection, little actually is. Behind the industry’s glamorous allure lies a workforce deprived of basic protections. Even though California’s Talent Association Act regulates modeling agencies’ licensure and procedural business operations, it is silent as to the rights and protections of models themselves. ...
JETLaw in the News: The Fault in Our Stars Reaches the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Jun. 22, 2021—Ramon Ryan’s paper, The Fault in Our Stars: Challenging the FCC’s Treatment of Commercial Satellites as Categorically Excluded from Review under the National Environmental Policy Act, in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law continues to push the frontiers of space law. Ryan’s paper raises several issues with the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) categorical exclusion of commercial satellites from environmental...
The Contractual and Tax Implications of The Phantom of the Opera
May. 26, 2021—By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV The substantive story of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra) is largely about contract analysis and whether the managers and “the phantom” have had a “meeting of the minds”—consensus ad idem. The question is whether the Phantom and the Managers reached a “meeting of...
Opening the Gate: Expanding non-J.D. Pathways and Removing Barriers to Better Promote Patent Practitioner Diversity
May. 26, 2021—By Christopher M. Turoski The patent field suffers from a reciprocal problem: the cost of becoming a patent attorney is abysmally high, and the diversity of the patent bar is abysmally low. Although a lack of diversity in science, technology, and engineering (STE) fields at the undergraduate and graduate level contributes to this problem, it...
Cyberpunked – How One Developer Could Answer in Court for a Botched Video Game Release
Mar. 20, 2021—By Michael Rollman In 2012, Polish video game developer, CD Projekt Red (“CDPR”) announced they were working on a new game they called “Cyberpunk 2077.” Though the game was shrouded in mystery at the time, video game fans were excited by another major franchise created by the company behind the massively successful, “The Witcher” games....
Venture Capital Kill Zones: Defining Harm to Consumers by Big Tech’s Long Shadow
Mar. 13, 2021—By Michael Regard Leading antitrust scholar Tim Wu, Columbia Law professor and recent addition to the Biden Administration’s National Economic Council, has asserted that Big Tech companies are creating a new ‘Gilded Age’ in the American Economy. The original Gilded Age was defined by “robber-barons” who controlled industry spanning trusts, and whose power challenged that...
DOGE Gone Wild in Dallas? How the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks Owner May be Manipulating the Marketplace.
Mar. 13, 2021—By Samuel Brown VII On March 4th, 2021, Dallas-based billionaire Mark Cuban announced in a groundbreaking interview with Markets Insider that the Dallas Mavericks would be the first professional sports team to accept the cryptocurrency “Dogecoin”, an initially satirical form of cryptocurrency made popular through internet meme culture and the endorsement of prominent celebrity figures...
TikTalk No More: A Look at How (and Why) TikTok’s Time Could Come to an End
Feb. 21, 2021—By Alex Pearson The clock was ticking. Over the span of 90 days, America would either see its beloved app, TikTok, take on new ownership or disappear from users’ phones nationwide. Unless the country found a way to hit snooze, the social media phenomenon would become a thing of the past in well under fifteen...
#FreeBritney: New York Times Documentary Sparks New Debate About Britney Spears, and Legal Conservatorship
Feb. 21, 2021—By Nicole Johnson In early February 2012, The New York Times debuted a documentary, “Framing Britney Spears,” which covered Britney Spears’ rise to fame, publicly chronicled personal conflict, and comeback. The documentary brought renewed attention the often-sexist media coverage of the then teenage pop star at the beginning of her career, and the constant presence...
Love & Data
Feb. 14, 2021—By A.J. Johnson You’re single and alone on your couch in August 2020. You made it through 90 days of lock down and a summer sitting at least six feet from your friends in parks and restaurant patios. You barely remember the last day you hadn’t worn sweat or yoga pants for most of the...