With the recent sale of a collage of digital artwork for over $60 million, many say that NFTs are here to stay. In fact, as we see an entirely new ecosystem being built around these digital cultural artifacts, we’re also witnessing in real time the rise of what has been…

By Alexia Bedat Much is being written about the legal issues raised by the surge of developments in the crypto space. But less attention, it seems, is being given to the role of media counsel in how to navigate these issues. Where and how do we fit in what is…

Every second, on average, 6,000 tweets are published on Twitter — that’s 500 million tweets per day. Of these millions of tweeters, how many are considering defamation law when they retweet? Probably not many. And yet, one click of a button could land you into legal trouble. In some countries…

An update to our article reviewing U.S. and European law/recent developments in link liability in both the copyright and defamation contexts and providing a checklist of questions an attorney (or editor) ought to ask before deciding, prepublication, whether a proposed link may lead to liability in the U.S. and/or the EU. Updates include the recent Goldman v. Breitbart decision in which a Federal Judge concluded that embedding a Tweet can be copyright infringement.

A growing number of US states are enacting specific laws to regulate the collection of biometric information. — In January 2018, Google released Arts & Culture application that matches selfies with historical artwork look-alikes. Millions of users downloaded the application. The selfie functionality, however, was not available for users located in Illinois and Texas at the time of download. Why? While Google did not make a statement either…

I. Introduction A particular type of private information became the focus of increasing attention in 2017: biometric data. Biometric data is digital data obtained by measuring an individual’s characteristics, such as retina or iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints or hand and face geometry. In May, Washington became the third state to…

Recently, a photographer whose camera was used by a monkey to take a selfie settled a two-year legal battle against an animal rights group about copyright over the image. The lower court had denied the monkey a copyright, but the parties decided to settle before facing the appeals court. Whether…

Last week, Sotheby’s opened its doors to the world of Virtual Reality (VR). Over the course of a two-day event (6/23–6/24) entitled The Art of VR, filmmakers, producers, artists, painters, storytellers and even surgeons came together to discuss both their current and expected uses of VR. …

The Icelandic courts were wrong to hold a website editor liable for publishing allegations made by two sisters that their relative, A, who was standing for election for the Constitutional Assembly had sexually abused them when they were children, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) decided on March…