David E. Wright is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. While few are likely to regard Marlon Wayans as an artistic trailblazer, he has potentially inadvertently managed to assert himself as...
Anastasiya Kryukova is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Celebrities have been making use of the protections that trademark law offers for many decades now. In the 1980s, Madonna became one...
Zachary A. Landow is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. The XFL is in its debut season as a supplement to football fans’ desire for more of the sport after the...
Jesse Kirkland is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain in 2024. For more context regarding what that means (and what it doesn’t), JIPEL Blog...
David E. Wright is a J.D. candidate, 2020 at NYU School of Law. If one were to read any among the spate of articles that were written in the wake of The Hollywood Reporter’s...
Ryan B. McLeod is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Copyright transfer termination, sometimes called copyright “recapture,” is a statutory provision within the 1976 Copyright Act that allows authors an opportunity...
Kevin Qiao is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Providing a major win to America’s major broadcast networks, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in American Broadcast Cos. v. Aereo, Inc. held...
Patrick Reed is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. With the rise of Uber, Lyft, and an assortment of food delivery apps, the emergence of the “gig economy” has brought renewed...
Amanda Gonzalez Burton is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. It’s a tale as old as time. Girl dates boy. Boy gets photographed by a paparazzo while walking down the streets...
Caitlin Hall-Swan is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. If you’re an entertainer, your income comes from “projects” – you take one job here, another there. Actors who work on a...