The Super Bowl is coming to Phoenix. I do not intend to scalp tickets, sell T-shirts, or sit on a street corner offering soda or water for a dollar to…
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Act Two of the Unpaid Internship Saga: Human Rights Protections
Unpaid interns are not legally protected from sexual harassment at work because they are not employees within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. State laws may…
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The Walking Dead Lawsuit: Vertical Integration is Still Alive in the Entertainment Industry
The creator of The Walking Dead claims AMC negotiated its licensing agreements in bad faith and engaged in “self-dealing,” allegedly paying a low licensing rate to the AMC affiliate studio…
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Game Critics and Commercial Bribery: the Original #gamergate Controversy
by Chris Deatherage What is Gamergate? Gamergate is the most polarizing issue in the gaming community at this time. For the un-initiated, Gamergate started as a movement against corruption…
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Feminism, the First Amendment, and #Gamergate
by Annelise Dominguez This past August, the Internet erupted when Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic, was threatened with mutilation, rape, and other physical harm in response to her video web…
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User Beware: the Legality of YouTube-to-MP3 Converters
by Joseph Citelli With the proliferation of music on massively popular file-sharing websites such as YouTube and Soundcloud, musical artists face legitimate concerns in terms of protecting their copyrighted…