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Long has humanity sought the ability to control the weather. For millennia, different cultures from all around the world have performed prayers, rain dances, sacrifices, and other rituals to attempt to conjure precipitation for their communities. While some of these practices persist in our modern times, a new one has emerged in the last century: […]

The prevalence of unauthorized deepfakes is an urgent issue, especially in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the 2024 election. In addition to celebrities being falsely represented in a campaign ad and by an AI voice assistant, sexually explicit deepfakes are victimizing girls across the country through the use of “nudification” apps. A recent […]

In June 2021, Microsoft subsidiary Github unveiled Copilot—a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool that promises to “help you write code faster and with less work.”  Copilot does this by suggesting source code and functions as developers type either code or natural language into its module.  This way, users can code without knowing how to write in […]

Developments in contract law are often driven by new technologies of contracting. Early in the twentieth century, for example, businesses began including contract terms on preprinted purchase orders, confirmations, invoices, packing slips, and other forms. That practice generated the so-called battle of the forms, which gave rise to section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code […]

Until recently, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal, and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data and infrastructural capability to enclose users and competitors in relations of dependency. Until recently, the […]

With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, users of “femtech”—apps used to track reproductive health, menstrual cycles, and fertility—should be concerned that their data could be weaponized against them. These apps collect deeply personal information, including a woman’s age, dates of past periods, sexual activity, birth control usage, and pregnancy. When this data is aggregated […]

The so-called “crypto winter” got a good bit colder last week as one of the crypto industry’s titans, Sam Bankman-Fried, saw his empire crumble.  The crypto-exchange founder’s net worth was reportedly $16 billion on Monday; by Friday, it had fallen to zero.  This is just the latest in a series of crashes that crypto-industry leaders […]

Within the past two years, two federal district courts have found for different sides of the same issue: is a tattoo artist’s copyright in her designs violated when a video game depicts a celebrity athlete with tattoos? Last month, the Southern District of Illinois found the WWE and a video game developer liable for copyright […]

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In his June 8, 1789 speech in Congress advocating for the adoption of a bill of rights to add to the Constitution, James Madison identified “the great object” of such an addendum as the opportunity “to limit and qualify the powers of government, by excepting out of the grant of power those cases in which […]