By Devangini Rai LL.M. 2024 In an industry ruled by trends, the nature of quiet luxury brands radically challenges how we view usage of trademarks in fashion. The term “quiet luxury,” which rose to prominence in the fashion industry in 2023, refers to the trend of logo-less branding. Some examples of quiet luxury brands include Loro Piana, The Row, Tom Ford, Max Mara, and Zegna. Quiet luxury became popular after the hit HBO show Succession, which featured characters wearing apparel exclusively sourced from quiet luxury brands. Apart from television, Gywneth Paltrow’s “billionaire chic” quiet l ..read more

By Chris Conley “Artificial intelligence” (AI) is everywhere these days, from Waymo’s ongoing pilots of self-driving cars to OpenAI’s publicly-available ChatGPT chatbot. The currently dominant form, machine learning (ML), relies on models derived from vast sets of data, potentially including personal information about millions of unknowing individuals. The end product may not only be derived from that data, but also intended to generate additional data about that same population. The training of AI models on personal information and their subsequent use to generate inferences or predictions bo ..read more

By Lauren Barland LL.M. 2023 In today’s digital age, personal information can be bought, traded, and sold by anyone with an internet connection. From our health and dietary habits to our sexual and romantic preferences, companies are collecting sensitive data on a massive scale, posing significant threats to privacy. In her new book, The Fight for Privacy, Danielle Keats Citron argues that failure to adequately protect digital privacy could have a chilling effect on the public’s ability to exercise their first amendment rights to free expression. According to Citron, intimate privacy is more t ..read more

BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Writing Competition. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions! First Place Winner: James Ng Brooklyn Law School Back in the Driver’s Seat: The United States Should Enact a Unified Automated Vehicle Law and Regulation Second Place Winner: Nate Kim Georgetown Law School National ID for Public Purpose Best Berkeley Law Submission: Kurt Fredrickson “Otherwise Available to the Public”: Using § 102 to Avoid the Supreme Court’s Patent-Eligibility Quagmire The post Announcing the Winners of the Berkeley T ..read more

BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Writing Competition. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions! 1st Prize: $1,000 Daniel Levin Fordham Law School Are You Out of Your Mind?: Neurotechnologies and the Making of Disembodied Agency 2nd Prize: $500 Vincent Dumas University of Wisconsin Law School Enigma Machines: Deep Learning Algorithms as Information Content Providers Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Aldo J. Test Award: $250 Shalev Netanel Berkeley Law Turning Lemmon into § 230 Aid: How Lemmon v. Snap Opens the Door ..read more

By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. 2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In late November, after waiting in endless e-queues for tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, Swifties were hit with sky-high prices or completely sold-out shows. They are demanding the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Ticketmaster for ‘predatory’ and ‘misleading’ tactics. As a result of this ticket fiasco, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an antitrust ..read more

By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. 2023 Swifties Sued, Ticketmaster and Live Nation Inflamed Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In late November, after waiting in endless e-queues for tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, Swifties were hit with sky-high prices or completely sold-out shows. They are demanding the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Ticketmaster for ‘predatory’ and ‘misleading’ tactics. As a result of this ticket fiasco, the ..read more

SPEAKERS Professor Chris Hoofnagle, Eric Ahern, Isabel Jones Podcast Transcript: [Eric]  00:12 Welcome to the BTLJ podcast. I’m your host, Eric Ahern. [Isabel]  00:17 And I’m your host, Isabel Jones. In today’s episode, we’ll be diving into the fascinating world of one of the most advanced machine learning tools out there: ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool developed by the company OpenAI in December 2022. Just a month after it’s release to the public, the tool reached over 100 million active users. [Eric]  00:42 However, the world’s fascination with ChatGPT ..read more

The BTLJ Podcast team sits down with Berkeley Law Professor Tejas Narechania to discuss his forthcoming article, “Convergence and a Case for Broadband Regulation.” In the interview, Professor Narechania identifies the consequences of the outdated regulatory scheme for broadband services that exists in the United States. He also proposes a system involving broadband rate regulation as a solution to the problem. This interview was recorded on November 10, 2022. Podcast Transcript: INTRO You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m your host, Eric Ahern. With COVID-1 ..read more

By Shreya Kapoor, LL.M. 2023 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (hereinafter referred to as ‘HIPAA’) was enacted on August 2, 1996 with the aim of protecting sensitive patient health information from non-consensual disclosure. In more recent years, the technologization of healthcare has increased convenience for providers and patients but also added urgency to the need to ensure the security of sensitive medical information. Challenges with HIPAA HIPAA aims to protect health information, but in practice the healthcare industry has faced challenges determining what exactly ..read more