Blog Posts
Between Ethics and Opportunity: The Gray Area of Art Deals in Nazi Germany
Feb. 15, 2023—By Grace Crow On January 20th, the descendants of a prominent German-Jewish family filed suit against the Guggenheim Foundation claiming ownership of a 1904 Picasso Painting: Woman Ironing.[1] The subject of the suit, Karl Adler, originally purchased the piece in 1916 from Heinrich Thannhauser, the owner of a prestigious gallery in Munich.[2] As tensions grew...
Rub Some Dirt on It…or Rubber?
Feb. 15, 2023—By Ryan Elson For San Francisco 49er football fans across the country, and football fans in general, nothing is harder to stomach than seeing a player’s season get cut short due to injury. Injuries hurt the team, hurt the sport, hurt the viewing experience and literal hurt the player. The two most common locations for...
Twitch.tv’s Deepfake Pornography Controversy Showcases the disturbing and disgusting Potential of Deepfake Technology
Feb. 6, 2023—By Alan Yanez During a livestream that took place on Monday, January 30th, popular Twitch.tv streamer Brandon Ewing, or as his viewers call him “Atrioc”, was caught having a browser window open to a site that contained, and offered users the ability to order, custom deepfake pornography.[1] Deepfake technology allows users to use artificial intelligence...
Legal AI-d to Your Service: Making Access to Justice a Reality
Feb. 4, 2023—By Andrew T Holt OpenAI’s latest version of ChatGPT demonstrates that AI developers have made substantial accomplishments in automating text generation and responding to novel and complex prompts. These advances will radically transform the legal landscape. In a paper co-written by ChatGPT, Dean Andrew Pearlman asked the chatbot “What can ChatGPT do for lawyers?” ChatGPT...
Bend or Snap: Embracing or Banning ChatGPT and its Future in Legal Education
Jan. 30, 2023—By Eveline Komrij In the first month of 2023, unprecedented, powerful AI technology has been lighting up headlines and causing quite a stir in the educational community in the form of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a powerful AI natural language processing (NLP) tool that can be used to generate original, “profoundly human-like” creative content.[1] As described...
Anti-Heroes of Antitrust? Antitrust Considerations with Ticketmaster
Jan. 23, 2023—By Angela Karas Antitrust has long occupied a prominent position in legal discourse surrounding Big Tech,[1] but the term has also recently become a Twitter buzzword.[2] After Taylor Swift fans expressed exasperation following difficulty obtaining tickets for the singer’s Eras Tour, calls for antitrust regulation of Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, expounded.[3]...
A National Indoor Air Quality Standard?: Heightened Relevance of the Roles of Technology and Law in Indoor Air Quality as an Illness Prevention Strategy
Jan. 23, 2023—By Mary-Michael Robertson Several new environmental law issues have garnered recent attention, including the potential relevance of the Supreme Court’s holding in West Virginia v. EPA on nuclear waste storage,[1] the power of rural residents to prevail on nuisance actions against newly foreign-owned pork producers,[2] and the roles of technology and law in furthering the...
Stolen Voices: AI Audio Mimicry and Singers’ IP Rights
Jan. 23, 2023—By Megan Chambers Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most hot-button topics in technology right now. For many, the end goal of developing advanced technology such as AI is to free humans from “grunt work” and allow for more time and resources to be spent on relaxation, entertainment, and creative endeavors.[1] For others, however,...
The Harmful Network: Social Media Immunity Under § 230 Has Cost Us Too Much
Jan. 17, 2023—By Patience M. Tyne For many young people, isolation during pandemic lockdowns only further exacerbated existing mental health afflictions.[1] The statistics for depression among teenagers changed drastically after 2010, correlating with increasing prevalence of social media;[2] suicides have increased almost every single year since 1999 and currently account for the second leading cause of death...
Litigation Lives Between Fact and Fiction: Lawsuits From “Based on a True Story” Productions
Jan. 16, 2023—By Jacqueline Noel In drawing inspiration from the real world, production companies must be careful to not find themselves dancing in the gray area between fact and fiction if they wish to stay out of a courtroom. Television shows and movies purporting to depict events and people that actually existed run the risk of spurring...