Recent Articles
Privacy and Accountability in Black-Box Medicine
By Roger Allan Ford & W. Nicholson Price II
Articles, Fall 2016
Virtual Violence - Disruptive Cyberspace Operations as "Attacks" Under International Humanitarian Law
By Ido Kilovaty
Articles, Fall 2016
Valuing Spectrum Allocations
By Thomas W. Hazlett & Matthew Honig
Articles, Fall 2016
Recent Essay
Blacklining Editorial Privilege
By Justin Hurwitz
Essay, Fall 2016
Recent Note
The Effect of the 1886 Berne Convention on the U.S. Copyright System's Treatment of Moral Rights and Copyright Term, and Where That Leaves Us Today
By Samuel Jacobs
Note, Fall 2016
Blog Posts
Google Won’t Let Us Forget You
In 2014 the European Union’s highest court held that EU citizens had the “right to be forgotten,” or in other words, the right to request that a search engine remove from its results materials that are “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive.”
read moreNo Man’s Skynet: Copyright in Procedurally Generated Programs
No Man’s Sky, a highly anticipated video game released this summer, allows players to explore a massive game world consisting of eighteen quintillion planets. Creating this much content would have been impossible for human game designers, so Hello Games used a technique called procedural generation.
read moreThe DMCA and Digital Music
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in 1998 to address emerging threats posed to copyrighted material by circumvention technology. But is the DMCA either protecting artists and fostering art?
read moreProsthetics That Restore Feeling: Person or Property?
Traditional prosthetic limbs allow amputees to walk, dance, and hold objects, but all while relying heavily on vision. To hold an object with a traditional prosthetic, a person must visually determine where and with how much force to grasp the object without dropping or crushing it.
read moreHow “Free” is Speech on Social Media?
To many, social media is a venue where one can express his or her views, no matter how favorable or abrasive, and the only expected backlash is the vehement disagreement from one’s friends or followers. However, in light of the recent threats to police officers and specific racial groups, the Department of Justice is taking a sharper look at what citizens say on various social media platforms.
read moreIVF for Veterans?
Advocating for government support of soldiers trying to start families might seem like a political cakewalk unlikely to generate pushback. Yet, veterans across the country are repeatedly denied access to assisted reproductive technologies.
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