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Taxing Big Data: A Proposal To Benefit Society For The Use Of Private Information, Ziva Rubinstein
Taxing Big Data: A Proposal To Benefit Society For The Use Of Private Information, Ziva Rubinstein
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Artificial intelligence, the technology that is currently shaping our world, relies on the data that each individual supplies. In 2017, the Economist magazine asserted that “the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” This assertion is supported by the current data market, which became a hundred-billion-dollar industry in the data broker market alone. However, despite its immense value, individuals are not compensated when their data is collected, shared, or when that data is used to replace them in the job market. Further, companies are legally avoiding taxes on this resource, both during its collection and on the …
23andme: Attack Of The Clones And Other Concerns, Claire M. Amodio
23andme: Attack Of The Clones And Other Concerns, Claire M. Amodio
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
A few years ago, ancestry websites took the world by storm. People were fascinated with their history and heritage and wanted to find out more about where they came from. Then along came 23andMe, which allowed people to not only unearth their familial roots, but also bring to light unknown medical conditions or predispositions to certain medical issues. 23andMe then took the unprecedented step of teaming up with a pharmaceutical company to create drugs with its users’ genetic information. After this announcement, some users were caught off guard, having had no idea that their genetic information—something so sensitive and uniquely …
The Sharing Economy & The Platform Operator‐User‐Provider “Pup Model”: Analytical Legal Frameworks, Juan Jose Diaz-Granados, Benedict Sheehy
The Sharing Economy & The Platform Operator‐User‐Provider “Pup Model”: Analytical Legal Frameworks, Juan Jose Diaz-Granados, Benedict Sheehy
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
The Sharing Economy and related platform technologies have disrupted work, consumption, and business in ways unimaginable even a decade ago. Creating great wealth and opportunity for some, the Sharing Economy has equally undermined job security and safety for many others. One challenge for regulators, legal advisors, and scholars is developing a rigorous analytical model for these related phenomena. We present the first comprehensive legal framework for distinguishing and analyzing the various components of the Sharing Economy and their interrelationships. Our analysis is based on contract law and property law, providing a delimitation within the Sharing Economy and platform technologies based …
Ocularcentrism And Deepfakes: Should Seeing Be Believing?, Katrina G. Geddes
Ocularcentrism And Deepfakes: Should Seeing Be Believing?, Katrina G. Geddes
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
The pernicious effects of misinformation were starkly exposed on January 6, 2021, when a violent mob of protestors stormed the nation’s capital, fueled by false claims of election fraud. As policymakers wrestle with various proposals to curb misinformation online, this Article highlights one of the root causes of our vulnerability to misinformation, specifically, the epistemological prioritization of sight above all other senses (“ocularcentrism”). The increasing ubiquity of so-called “deepfakes”—hyperrealistic, digitally altered videos of events that never occurred—has further exposed the vulnerabilities of an ocularcentric society, in which technology-mediated sight is synonymous with knowledge. This Article traces the evolution of visual …
The Dinosaur In The Living Room: A Proposal To Enable Academic Access To Fossils Discovered On Private Land, Sara K. Mazurek
The Dinosaur In The Living Room: A Proposal To Enable Academic Access To Fossils Discovered On Private Land, Sara K. Mazurek
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
The United States has been a major source of scientifically significant paleontological discoveries over the course of its history. In addition to invaluable primary source material for the study of evolution and climate change, American paleontology has additionally been invoked as symbols of American power since the founding of the country. Even though fossils are prominent national heritage, the United States today only uniformly regulates their excavation and use on federal public lands through the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. When fossils are discovered on private land, landowners and those with whom they contract often sell them to private collectors, which …