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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
To our clients, colleagues and friends: As fall begins – too soon for some of us – we continue to see a dizzying array of interesting developments in the realms of IP, privacy law, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Through this periodic newsletter, we endeavor to keep you informed of the most relevant and exciting ones. […]
“And what do you do?” “Oh, I’m a YouTuber!” The number of Americans who derive at least a part of their yearly income from posting original content on the Internet exploded over the past decade. The rise of new platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels, combined with the video sharing site YouTube, has unlocked a […]
EDUCATION The George Washington University Law School, J.D. (2021) Boston University, Master’s of Education (2015) University of Delaware, B.A., Foreign Languages & Literature (2012) BAR ADMISSIONS District of Columbia Ethan has quickly become indispensable to the firm’s copyright and trademark practice, both in matters of prosecution and litigation. He also advises both content creators and […]
Sound recordings — i.e., the recorded versions of musical works — were not protected by federal copyright law until Congress passed legislation on February 15, 1972, giving them limited protection. Until the passage of Title II of the Music Modernization Act (“MMA”) in 2018, sound recordings created before February 15, 1972 were only protected to […]
The Winter Olympics underway in Beijing are fraught with controversy. Both the United States and the United Kingdom imposed a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics to protest China’s grave human rights violations. Athletes are up in arms over the requirement that they download a state-owned digital surveillance app. Amidst the many voices of protest against […]
We are delighted to report that our law clerk, Ethan Barr, who joined the firm full-time in September 2021 following his graduation from George Washington University Law School, was admitted to the DC Bar in December. Ethan holds a Master’s of Education from Boston University and worked as a school administrator prior to law school. […]
A more technical version of this Insight, geared to practitioners, was published by Law360. On Friday, September 24, 2021, the comic book publisher Marvel initiated five lawsuits in federal courts, attempting to invalidate copyright termination notices sent by a former writer and the estates of several former artists. The copyrights in question included some of […]