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Controversial Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill Eliminates Safe-Harbor for Tech Companies

Maya Digre, MJLST Staffer Last week the U.S. Senate voted to approve the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. The U.S. House of Representatives also passed...

The Next Chapter for Mining and Energy Law: The Cryptocurrency Miners

Zach Sibley, MJLST Staffer Traditionally, miners enjoyed a position on the supply side of energy production, providing energy inputs like coal that power the grid...

The Unfair Advantage of Web Television

Richard Yo, MJLST Staffer Up to a certain point, ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T enjoy healthy, mutually beneficial relationships with web content companies such...

New Data Protection Regulation in European Union Could Have Global Ramifications

Kevin Cunningham, MJLST Staffer For as long as the commercial web has existed, companies have monetized personal information by mining data. On May 25, however...

Copyright Suit Against Rita Ora and Estate of the Notorious B.I.G. Dismissed

Kaylee Kruschke, MJLST Staffer A copyright law suit brought by Abiodun Oyewole, a member of The Last Poets, against Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace (Biggie)...

Carpenter Might Unite a Divided Court

Ellen Levis, MJLST Staffer In late 2010, there was a robbery at a Radio Shack in Detroit. A few days later: a stick up at...

An Automated Armageddon

Jacob Barnard, MJLST Staffer In the 1970’s, hundreds of millions of people starved to death - 65 million of them Americans. In the 1980’s, world...

Judicial Interpretation of Emojis and Emoticons

Kirk Johnson, MJLST Staffer In 2016, the original 176 emojis created by Shigetaka Kurita were enshrined in New York’s Museum of Modern Art as just...

Say It to My Face: Why You Don’t Get to Use My Old LinkedIn Headshot to Promote Your Business, Even if You Took My New One

Tim Joyce, Former MJLST Editor-in-Chief [This article unintentionally picks back up on a more theoretical LawSci Forum post from spring 2017 by Travis Waller.] The...