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My Summer in the International Arbitration Department of a Large Law Firm in Paris
This summer, I interned at the International Arbitration department of Shearman and Sterling LLP in Paris, France. I was fortunate to work in one of the biggest and most prominent practices on international arbitration. Shearman’s Paris office has at least 60...
My Summer Experience at the RIAA
This summer I interned at the Recording Industry Association of America (the RIAA) focusing mainly on copyright and licensing. The RIAA is infamous for being the online police for the illegal downloading of music and also for rewarding artists with gold, platinum, and...
Why You Should Consider Interning for a Magistrate Judge
This summer, I interned for a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Although magistrate judges are not Article III Judges,1 they play crucial role in district court proceedings, and can provide a truly unique learning experience...
My Mid-Size Law Firm Summer Experience
This summer I worked at a firm in Washington D.C. Although I was not satisfied with working at this particular firm, I used this experience to take down notes about what it may be like to run a firm and to have to handle an array of cases that I may not be...
When a Contract Leaks – The Sony and Spotify Story
It has certainly been said before, but 2015 will likely not be remembered as a good year for the Sony Corporation in the entertainment world. This past month, the online news site The Verge, leaked a copy of the actual 2011 contract between the company’s major record...
Protectable Elements in Horror Genre Parodies
The author of the 2006 novel The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines, Peter Gallagher, recently filed a copyright infringement suit for $10 million against Lionsgate and the producers of the 2012 film The Cabin in the Woods.[1] Gallagher alleges that the...
Periscope Taking Punches
Earlier last month marked the most hyped boxing match in quite some time. Saturday, May 2, 2015 was the day that pinned Floyd Mayweather Jr. v. Manny Pacquiao, which produced 4.4 million pay-per-view purchases.[1] Mayweather Jr. was declared the winner of the fight,...
The Advent and Repeal of Paid Skyrim Mods on Steam Workshop
On April 23, the video game company, Valve Corporation, announced that starting with Bethesda Game Studio’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Steam Workshop “now supports buying mods directly from the Workshop, to be immediately usable in game.”[1] In general, anything...
Icy Waters for Disney
The creator of an animated short film, The Snowman, has sued the Walt Disney Co. for copyright infringement based on her trailer for the hugely-successful animated movie, Frozen.[1] While The Snowman and Frozen have a few similarities, such as a snowman who loses his...
More Blank Spaces Could Be Coming to Spotify
The streaming platform Spotify has increasingly come under fire from established artists, concerned by the fact that the services’ free streaming business model doesn’t seem to result in enhanced royalties, while potentially cannibalizing sales from other sources....