The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act) — Addendum: Open for Business

This post is an update. Read the original post here and the first addendum here. As of June 16, 2022, the Copyright Claims Board (“CCB”) is open for business. As we have previously reported, the new tribunal, established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (the “CASE Act”) is intended to provide an […]

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Trademarks in the Metaverse

Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Charlotte Cuccia

What is the Metaverse? As terms like metaverse expand into the popular lexicon, it becomes easy to fall into the same hyperbolic craze around futurism and virtual reality that was common in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Depictions of interconnected virtual worlds have invoked media like Ready Player One, the 2011 science fiction novel […]

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