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Nonconsensual Pornography: An Old Crime Updates Its Software, Jillian Roffer May 2017

Nonconsensual Pornography: An Old Crime Updates Its Software, Jillian Roffer

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

This Note proposes a statute that considers social media and the Internet. The proposed statute is advantageous because it understands how perpetrators abuse social media and the Internet and implements the protections that victims deserve from the legal system. When society understands the harms and “[w]hen there is no outlet for these images, no audience for these images, and no desire to post these images, that is when the images will cease to cause harm to victims.” The lessons from the criminalization of other forms of gender abuse indicate that society needs to change its attitude toward crimes that predominately …


Patently Insane For Patents: A Judge-By-Judge Analysis Of The Federal Circuit’S Post-Alice Patentable Subject Matter Eligibility Of Abstract Ideas Jurisprudence, Matthew B. Hershkowitz Jan 2017

Patently Insane For Patents: A Judge-By-Judge Analysis Of The Federal Circuit’S Post-Alice Patentable Subject Matter Eligibility Of Abstract Ideas Jurisprudence, Matthew B. Hershkowitz

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The Information Age exposed the U.S. patent system to patentable subject matter that it had never considered before. In particular, software tested the courts’ understanding of patentable subject matter under section 101 of title 35 of the U.S. Code. The Supreme Court grappled with this issue in its Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International decision, which greatly affected the patentability of software. However, the Supreme Court did not define the precise contours of patentable subject matter in Alice, and as a result, the Federal Circuit has wrestled with its meaning ever since. This Note discusses the approaches Federal Circuit judges …


Trying To Understand Software: Why Microsoft V. At&T Was Mistakenly Decided, Drew J. Koning Mar 2008

Trying To Understand Software: Why Microsoft V. At&T Was Mistakenly Decided, Drew J. Koning

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Software Licenses Through The Bankruptcy Looking Glass: Drafting Individually Negotiated Software Licenses That Protect The Client's Interests In Bankruptcy, Jennifer S. Bisk Mar 2007

Software Licenses Through The Bankruptcy Looking Glass: Drafting Individually Negotiated Software Licenses That Protect The Client's Interests In Bankruptcy, Jennifer S. Bisk

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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