Blog Posts
Amazon’s Latest and Greatest Antitrust Lawsuit: A Big Tech Reckoning
Oct. 3, 2023—By Angela Karas This past Tuesday, September 26th, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and 17 state attorney generals filed suit against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.[1] Crucially, this suit marks one of the largest antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech in the twenty-first century.[2] The complaint...
Unlevel Playing Field: The Hypocrisy of the NCAA’s Gender Equity Argument in Johnson
Mar. 4, 2023—By Michael Bennett It is often said that defense wins championships. However, the NCAA’s defense invoking gender equity as a concern for conferring employee status to student athletes won’t be winning championships any time soon. The NCAA is currently facing a multi-faceted challenge to their amateurism model. Specifically, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has...
Gonzalez v. Google: The Future of “The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet”*
Feb. 28, 2023—By Lillian “Lily” Rucker In November 2015, Nohemi Gonzalez, a twenty-three-year-old college student studying abroad in Paris, was among the 130 killed in a coordinated series of ISIS terrorist attacks.[1] Ms. Gonzalez’s father subsequently brought an action against YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, for their “uniquely essential role” in the promotion, expansion, and success of...
The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Claim Against Louis Vuitton
Feb. 28, 2023—By Victoria Schmit Many recent copyright cases have centered around a company’s unauthorized use of copyrighted art in connection with ad campaigns. For instance, in 2004, Apple utilized a song co-written by Eminem, Jeffrey Bass, and Louis Resto and owned by Eight Mile Style entitled “Lose Yourself” as part of an ad campaign for Apple’s...
The SEC’s Regulatory Crackdown on the Crypto Market
Feb. 20, 2023—By Eliza Jaen Gary Gensler, the sitting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), has made strides in the digital asset space to protect investors by bringing a wave of regulatory action against cryptocurrency firms, arguing that most cryptocurrencies fall within the legal definition of a security and should therefore be subject federal securities...
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...