Organizations often practice a technique known as employee poaching, a practice where a company recruits away an employee from a competing company. Employee poaching often happens in growing industries that require employees with high-demand...
Within the deluge of articles and news reports regarding the Trump campaign and the recent election, the most unlikely headline of the bunch to catch my eye involved the Village People. Trump’s consistent use...
This may be Sherlock Holmes’ toughest case to date… but could also be his easiest. Just how much of his character is still copyrightable? How much can the public freely use? The new litigation...
The French film “Cuties”, which won an award at Sundance Film Festival, is about an 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in Paris who rebels against her religious, oppressive family and joins a dance group of...
What is a war video game without a realistic war environment? That is the question that Activision has asked in its successful defense against a trademark enforcement claim from AM General, the manufacturer of...
Kevin Qiao is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at the NYU School of Law. On December 28, 2018, Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a relatively unique interactive film that gave viewers the ability to make...
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...
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