Amid the current “real” housing market, investors all over the metaverse are grappling to get a piece of virtual real estate. What is this virtual real estate, and what makes it different from “real” real estate? In online games that are part of the metaverse, games like Decentraland and Sandbox, players can buy NFTs to …
Copyrights are broad forms of intellectual property that are given legal protection once the author transforms the work into a “tangible form of expression.” Hence, books, photos, songs, movies, artwork, and other types of expression are subject to copyright protection. With the existence of platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, it is increasingly easy for …
In November of 2021 Taylor Swift released Red (Taylor’s Version), a rerecorded version of her hit 2012 studio album. Red is the second of six albums that Swift plans to rerecord due to a dispute with her former record label, Big Machine, over ownership of the master recordings of those works. The bad blood between …
Twitter Inc. is appealing to the Ninth Circuit hoping to overturn the District Court’s decision to allow a claim against the social media platform that it benefited from sex trafficking of minors, violating federal sex trafficking laws. The plaintiffs in the case, John Doe No.1 and John Doe No. 2, allege that they were recruited …
Privacy law might be about to enter a new age as 23andMe begins to implement its next stage of business. 23andMe hopes to expand their business, from genetically mapping ancestral heritage and locating predisposed genetic conditions, into a pharmaceutical company that crafts medicines from the insights gained from the statistical data of millions of genetic …
Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video featured at the Facebook Connect 2021 augmented and virtual reality conference at the end of October that Facebook’s parent company, Facebook, Inc., would be changing its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. The video contained an explanation and demonstration of Zuckerberg and Meta’s ambitions for the “metaverse.” It also featured …
Ransomware- a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until money is paid- is a rapidly growing malware threat. One ransomware attack reached a record-breaking demand this year: $50 million dollars. You have 24 hours to submit the payment. If you do not send the money within the provided time, …
Today, more than ever, robotexts—spam texts sent automatically in an attempt to gain information—have plagued cellphones. It seems like I can’t go a day without receiving a text about my “vehicle’s extended warranty” or paying a medical bill for a treatment I never received. I know I am not alone struggling with receiving unwanted an …
Using New York’s Martin Act, a blue-sky law, New York’s Attorney General, Letitia James, ordered two leading crypto platforms to cease their activities within the state. The Attorney General’s announcement indicates that the platforms received an advanced warning that they must register with the Office of the Attorney General but did not comply. In addition …
Apple Inc. has filed an appeal of a judge’s ruling that ordered Apple to allow apps to direct customers to external websites. This ruling would let app businesses circumvent Apple’s requirement to allow payments only inside of apps, where Apple takes up to a 30% cut. Epic Games, Inc., a video game and software developer …
