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Published on November 28, 2017 On October 4, 2017, Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Tom Marino (R-PA) and four co-sponsors introduced a bill, H.R. 3945, the Copyright Alternatives in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2017, to establish a small copyright claims tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office. The 2017 CASE Act comes on ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 31, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES API Copyrightability Bleak House: Unraveling and Repairing the Oracle v. Google Jurisdictional Mess by Peter S. Menell The Williamson Revolution in Software’s Structure by Kevin Emerson Collins Hidden in Plain Sight by Michael Rish Software Patents as a Currency, Not ...

Anushree Gupta Imagine a Hyper-Reality scenario, where boundaries between our physical and virtual realities are extremely blurry. A world where immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have taken over every aspect of our daily lives.[i] A world with endless possibilities, where users are constantly interacting with ...

Matt Caplan, a partner at Cooley LLP, and our hosts (Tony Bedel ’18 and Chante Eliaszadeh ’20) discuss how to protect intellectual property with trade secrets. Matt explains how trade secrets are an essential tool for startups and new ventures. The podcast also explores the recent Waymo v. Uber trade ...

Can a robot get a copyright for its works? If not who owns the property? It would have been difficult for our constitutional framers to envision the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. AI and machine learning are already creating valuable properties, but how to protect those properties ...

Special Thanks to the Berkeley Law chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy for assistance with this podcast episode! Simon Tam found himself at the Supreme Court because of his rock band’s name: “the Slants.” Simon and his band mates chose the name as a way to reclaim ...

Tony Bedel & Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidates ’18) interview Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. This discussion focuses on Europe’s new privacy regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the right to be forgotten. Under the GDPR companies around the world ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 31, ISSUE 2 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infringement by Pamela Samuelson Patent Nationally, Innovate Locally by Camilla A. Hrdy Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing’s Daraprim Price Increase by Michael A. Carrier, Nicole L. Levidow ...

Alexa – Can You Give Me Some Privacy? By: Erica Sun “Alexa, tell me what the weather is like for today.”[1] That is just one of the many possible commands to which Amazon Echo (“Echo”), through the Alexa Voice Service (“Alexa”), can respond.[2] Echo, which is equipped with seven microphones ...

Aniket Kesari[1] Amanda Maya[2] Chris Hoofnagle[3] Damon McCoy[4] Precis for Platform Law: Public and Private Regulation of Online Platforms April 2017 Keywords: Financially-motivated cybercrime, intermediary liability, CDA 230, deterrence by punishment, deterrence by denial, botnets, anti-counterfeiting, Rule 65, TRO, SDN, OFAC, hacking, DNS seizure Businesses that sell illegal pharmaceuticals, pirated ...