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Attack Of The Clones: Copyright Protection For Video Game Developers, Brian Casillas
Attack Of The Clones: Copyright Protection For Video Game Developers, Brian Casillas
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
This comment focuses on the case Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. and uses it to explore how video game developers’ original innovations are protected under copyright law so as to fully restrict those wishing to “clone” these innovations for their own financial gain. The comment begins by outlining relevant copyright concepts and statutes, using case examples, and detailing the analytical framework courts use to evaluate claims asserted under copyright law. It then discusses the accommodations by both the video game industry as well as online marketplaces in order to protect original content from being cloned. After evaluating these …
Public Shaming In The Digital Age: Are Criminal Laws The Most Effective Means To Regulate Revenge Porn?, Luke Fiedler
Public Shaming In The Digital Age: Are Criminal Laws The Most Effective Means To Regulate Revenge Porn?, Luke Fiedler
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
This Note attempts to develop an initial framework for best regulating the growing trend of online harassment known as “revenge porn.” Revenge porn is the act of widely disseminating via the Internet nude or otherwise explicit photos or videos that were produced and exchanged while two individuals shared an intimate encounter or relationship. Oftentimes revenge porn “attacks” occur out of spite or scorn felt by one of the individuals as a way to publically humiliate the other individual. This Note argues for copyright law as the ideal area of the law from which revenge porn can and should be regulated. …