Georgetown Law Technology Review

The GLTR write-on competition for transfer and LLM students will be open Aug. 9 to Aug. 25, 2021. To register, please provide your name and Georgetown email address via email to GLTR@georgetown.edu. The competition is free, and no technical background is required to join GLTR. Please email us with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you! ** Please note that our write-on competition for returning Georgetown students closed on June 13, 2021. If you did not participate this year, we encourage you to apply next spring.**

Exit To Community: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy

Morshed Mannan & Nathan Schneider

The platform economy is facing a crisis of accountability. Large Internet platforms, once regarded as sources of hope for democratic social movements or engines of a promising new economy—or, at worst, just superficial distractions—are now facing serious public scrutiny across the globe. The executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been called before the U.S. […]

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Pay to Play: Video Game Monetization Patents and the Doctrine of Moral Utility

Kirk A. Sigmon

Video games are now more complex and realistic than they ever have been—but making those games is not cheap. Video game development and marketing costs are sky high. To help recoup these costs, game developers and publishers have begun inventing increasingly clever ways to encourage users to spend more money on video games—and they are […]

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Learning From India’s TKDL: Digitization as a Tool to Protect Cultural Property and an Argument for Doing It Yourself

Sherlyn Abdullah

Digitization of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE) can be a powerful means to many noble ends. For example, archiving herbal medicines or traditional performance art by recording it in writing or video can prevent those cultural pieces from being lost as a result of death of living memory, natural disaster, or conflict. […]

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From the Eyes of a Machine: Image Recognition Technologies

Susan Pratt

Image recognition technologies (IRTs) are tools that are capable of taking images, detecting and classifying objects within those images, and outputting some desired result based on the analysis. With computers becoming more powerful and image data availability increasing, IRTs are continually improving, enabling humans to use them for applications like optical character recognition (OCR), healthcare, […]

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Government Takes Stock of Global Chip Shortage with Aim of Finding a Cure

Dacey Gilligan

President Biden is taking steps to address the global supply chain weaknesses made apparent by the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 24, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order announcing strategies to repair supply chain vulnerabilities in four industries, including semiconductor chip manufacturing. The Executive Order requires the Secretary of Commerce, along with the leaders of […]

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An Interview with Dharmesh Tarapore, founder and CEO of ACAS Technologies

Zachary Gurien

In an interview with Georgetown Law Technology Review, Dharmesh Tarapore, founder and CEO of Aircraft Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) Technologies, discusses his tech start-up journey and the technology behind his flight collision avoidance system. Tarapore’s invention utilizes machine learning to increase flight safety for general aviation airplanes by detecting and alerting pilots to incoming aircrafts. […]

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New FTC Leadership Signals Stronger Privacy Enforcement and Greater Racial Equity Priorities

Amy Olivero

On February 10, 2021, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter presented the keynote address at the Future of Privacy Forum’s 11th-annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event. In her address, Slaughter discussed some of her top privacy-related priorities for the Commission. Her early signaling of privacy priorities from Washington adds to the sentiment […]

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With Great Power Comes Great Liability: Robinhood Faces Flurry of Lawsuits Over GameStop Trading Halt

Jay Schuffenhauer

The popular financial services app Robinhood ended 2020 on a high note. Armed with an influx of investor funding, Robinhood lifted its valuation to nearly $12 billion while simultaneously attracting millions of new and often young users to the platform. The company touts a mission to democratize finance for everyday people by providing financial literacy […]

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The Future of Section 230 as a New Administration Takes Office

Sam Pickerill

As President Trump feuded with social media giants Twitter and Facebook throughout 2020, Section 230 also had a rather tumultuous year. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields online intermediaries from liability for user-generated content, was thrust into a surprisingly prominent place on the legislative agenda. In the waning weeks of his presidency, Trump […]

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