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    Who Owns Your Voice? Trademark’s Expansion into Identity Protection

    February 12, 2026By Victoria Reyes

      Actor Matthew McConaughey (“McConaughey”) recently sought an inventive shield against artificial intelligence (“AI”) impersonators: he registered trademarks on recordings of his own voice, including his iconic phrase, “alright, alright, alright.”[i] This move made headlines not for its legal precision but for what it revealed: a glaring gap in the law.[ii] As AI makes it […]

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    Should Internet Providers Be the New Copyright Police? The Supreme Court Takes Up Cox v. Sony Music

    November 3, 2025By Victoria Reyes

    In a blockbuster case now before the Supreme Court, an Internet Service Provider (“ISP”), Cox Communications (“Cox”), faces liability for its users’ mass piracy of recorded music, a verdict that threatens to fundamentally reshape the boundaries of contributory copyright liability.[i] The Fourth Circuit upheld Cox’s liability for contributory infringement, while vacating its vicarious liability and […]

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