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From Campus to Courtroom: How Penn State’s Trademark Victory Highlights the Importance of Universities’ Intellectual Property
Credit: AP News Introduction Longhorns, Trojans, Bulldogs, and Buckeyes are just some of the logos and trademarks that are synonymous...


Fast Fashion: Shein Copyright and Racketeering Lawsuits
Credit: Dick Thomas Johnson | Flickr Shein, a ninety billion dollar fast fashion brand, has quickly become one of the most notorious...
Audrey Plzak, Dee Santrach, Dea Sula
Apr 2, 2024


How AI Masters the Art of Recognizing and Verifying Masterpieces
INTRODUCTION The world of art authentication has long been a delicate dance between tradition and technology. Connoisseurs, curators, and...


From Serpentine to Single Ladies: Navigating Choreography Copyrights in the Age of TikTok
Credit: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | YouTube As an ancient and honored art form, dance holds profound significance within many...
Brooke Banta, Sarah Walters, Dea Sula
Apr 2, 2024


Explicit AI-Generated Images of Taylor Swift Circulate; Can She Sue for Defamation?
Credit: Ronald S Woan | Wikimedia Commons As proof of why we can’t have nice things, at least dozens of sexually-explicit, deepfake,...
Caroline Viola, Meesha Reiisieh
Feb 6, 2024


Tangled Tunes: Unraveling the Legal Web of AI-Created Music
Credit: The Come Up Show | Flickr Intro: In April 2023, TikTok user ghostwriter977 uploaded a song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” that was...


Criminal Art Dealers and Their Legal Consequences
Credit: PxHere Art Dealers are a foundational aspect of the art market. As middlemen, dealers are the chain that connects artists,...
Dea Sula, Kieran Coughlin, and Lauren Haverlock
Nov 21, 2023


Jacquemus and the Rise of Virtual Luxury: AI-Generated Marketing
Credit: Jacquemus Le Bambimou Jacquemus The French luxury label Jacquemus is known for its imaginative marketing strategies that give the...
Victoire Marion, Sarah Walters, Brooke Banta
Oct 31, 2023

The Lack of Artist Resale Rights in the United States
Credit: Courtesy of Southeby's The artist resale right, a concept that gives the original artist or their descendants the right to ...
Andrey Volkov, Audrey Plzak, Dea Sula
Oct 3, 2023


Creativity Finds A Way: Russia's Movie Theater Survives Hollywood Boycott Thanks To Parallel Import
Moscow Cinema Oktyabr© Svetlov Artem, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic On February 24, 2022,...


The Nail in the Sarcophagus: Exposing an International Trafficking Ring
In the first century BCE in Ptolemaic Egypt, the high priest Nedjemankh of the ram-headed god Heryshef prepared for his journey into the aft
Dea Sula, Christina Nadeau, Ella Wesly
Oct 27, 2022

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith
On December 3, 1981, respected photographer Lynn Goldsmith was tasked with photographing the up-and-coming musical icon Prince.
Kaelyn Keller
Oct 13, 2022


Post-WWII Art Restitution: a Californian heir vs. The Kingdom of Spain
Art restitution is becoming a global trend.


The Tattoo Industry: Regulations and COVID’s Potential Effect
Surprisingly, the tattoo industry in the United States is largely unregulated.
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