Recent Articles
The 'License as Tax' Fallacy
Article, Spring 2022
Unreasonable: A Strict Liability Solution to the FTC's Data Security Problem
Article, Spring 2022
The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in FRAND Litigation
Article, Spring 2022
Content Moderation Remedies
Article, Fall 2021
An Empirical Study: Willful Infringement & Enhanced Damages in Patent Law After Halo
Article, Fall 2021
Recent Notes
The Best Data Plan Is to Have a Game Plan: Obstacles and Solutions to Reaching International Data Privacy Agreements
Note, Spring 2022
Mental Health Mobile Apps and the Need to Update Federal Regulations to Protect Users
Note, Spring 2022
Blog Posts
Should You Be Afraid of the Kinect?
Last month Microsoft released its newest console, the Xbox One. As part of its basic package the Xbox One includes a separate, yet required, add-on called the Kinect. The Kinect is a combination of a microphone, a camera, and a plethora of other sensors. The Kinect...
Google and Microsoft Crackdown on Child Pornography
On November 18, 2013, Google announced its plans to crack down on child pornography on its search engine. In addition to removing over 100,000 search results, Google will post warning signs about potentially unlawful content, links to child pornography abuse...
Tribal Lending Poses Online Obstacle to Effective Payday Regulation
Recent class action lawsuits and state regulators are confronting head-on the tribal payday lending business model. [1] Tribal lenders are companies that originate small dollar (payday) loans online from servers located within Indian Country, permitting them to...
“Hacktivist” criminal conviction reignites debate about CFAA
On November 15, 2013, self-described “hacktivist” Jeremey Hammond was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for obtaining and publishing confidential information from private defense firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor). [1] At the urging of the U.S. Department of...
Patent Litigation Integrity Act – Raising The Stakes
Patent trolls had an especially scary Halloween this year as Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced Senate Bill 1612 – the Patent Litigation Integrity Act. The short and succinct bill has one purpose – “To deter abusive patent litigation by targeting the economic...
Judge has ruled in landmark copyright case: Google Books is here to stay
If you are anything like the average college student, you have probably scrambled for a book desperately needed for a research project in the last few days before said project is due. The most common fix to this problem is a technique perfected over the last decade –...