Deepfakes and the 2024 Election

Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Sara Etemad-Moghadam

In March 2023, a photograph of Pope Francis showed him uncharacteristically fashionable in a long white cinched puffer coat. That same month, photographs of former President Trump being tackled by New York City police officers circulated on Twitter, attracting five million views. If these events seem implausible, or you’re surprised that they didn’t make major […]

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Youth Privacy and Data Collection Online

Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Sara Etemad-Moghadam

While technology provides children with the benefits of social connection and belonging, there are also adverse effects on children and teens’ physical and mental well-being and concern about how their personal data is used. Children are accessing the Internet from an early age and they and their parents need to understand what data is being […]

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How to Protect Your Domain Name Using UDRP Proceedings

Jeannette Maurer Carmadella and Sara Etemad-Moghadam

The state of Maryland learned the hard way about the risks of not maintaining domain ownership. In order to appreciate the pickle the state got itself in, it’s necessary to understand the importance of separately protecting trademarks and domain names in order to ensure full brand protection.  Domain Names vs. Trademarks From 2012 to 2016, […]

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The Writers Guild of America Strike, the Creative Industry and Artificial Intelligence

Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Dana Sussman

Update: On June 4, 2023, the Directors Guild of America (“DGA”) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (“AMPTP”) reached a tentative agreement, with ratification scheduled for June 6. AMPTP and the DGA have agreed that AI is not a person and therefore cannot be used to replace the duties performed by DGA […]

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