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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 late October 2021, Facebook’s rebranding to Meta signaled Mark Zuckerberg’s intent to focus on the “metaverse” as the future of the social media giant. But an old problem still looms large for Meta: content moderation. There are no good solutions to moderating the “metaverse,” as being too light on moderation will drive away users […]

During the Georgetown Law Technology Review’s 2022 Biennial Symposium, a distinguished panel of speakers evaluated data governance and the issues arising from differential access to data. The speakers focused on reform in three major areas: (a) the need for discussion among stakeholders; (b) increasing oversight in data governance; and (c) implementing legislation aimed at increasing […]

Proponents of Web3 claim that it is inherently democratic. But this proclamation seems hasty. Web3 looks a lot like previously developed tools that, while heralded as silver bullets to improve democracy, come up short of this goal in practice. Instead, tools like Web3 tend to merely decrease equity in our society. First, what is Web3? […]

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 […]

In March, the Virginia State Legislature approved a bill permitting the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by local and college campus police departments. If passed, the bill will repeal a temporary ban on such use instituted in 2021. Although data shows that the public is becoming more accepting of the use of FRT by […]

The first panel of The Georgetown Law Technology Review’s 2022 symposium, “The Impact of Public-Private Data Sharing on Law Enforcement,” addressed an increasingly relevant question in today’s information economy: what should be done about U.S. law enforcement agencies that skirt government surveillance rules by accessing personal data through third-party brokers? Professor Sarah Lamdan from the […]

“They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” artist Neil Young stated in a letter he posted on his website and later deleted. Young asked Spotify to remove his music in protest of the website streaming Joe Rogan’s podcast. Spotify removed Young’s music on January 26 and released a statement saying, “We want all the […]