Professor Taddeo, Esq.

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based upon a real lawsuit! NIKE v. KOOL KIY is not a fake classroom hypo about “likelihood of confusion.” It’s a full-contact intellectual property war where art, hype culture, sneakers, street art, branding, litigation strategy, and billion-dollar corporate power collide... in real time. Students inherit a bleeding client: a Brooklyn sneaker artist trapped in a catastrophic federal lawsuit with sneaker behemoth Nike. The client’s current legal team may have already destroyed his future. Now you must decide whether to fight, pivot, negotiate, redesign, leverage culture, weaponize business reality, or save the client from himself. This project forces students to think like actual entertainment and IP lawyers --- not law students memorizing buzzwords. One bad strategy could bury the brand forever. Will your students be the savior...or the shovel?

Intellectual PropertyTrademarkEntertainment Law

TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.CreativityCreativityOpen-ended problem-solving — multiple valid approaches, students must choose and defend their strategy.Real WorldReal WorldDrawn from a real legal matter — names changed, facts intact. Plays like augmented reality where Googling and industry knowledge can give initiated students an advantage.World-RankWorld-RankProduces a deliverable that can be objectively scored against every other student submission ever made for this project. Feeds the global leaderboard.1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

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A no-escape, high-stakes negotiation where only 10,000 oranges exist, and both sides need them all. In Fruit Fight: Battle of Valencia, students weaponize leverage, deception, empathy, and deal structure under a ruthless "Fill or Kill" clock. One side is curing cancer in children; the other has multi-million-dollars of investor funds comitted - both are telling the truth, and both are lying. There is no mediator. No delay. Just outcome. The lawyers have 30 minutes, to surface every negotiation instinct, and get it done. Ethics? Please. All that matters is strategy, and maybe creativity. This isn't theory. This is a negotiation pressure cooker. Who will win?...or will everybody lose?

Negotiation

VersusVersusHead-to-head: each student is matched against one opponent in a focused, time-pressured exchange.CreativityCreativityOpen-ended problem-solving — multiple valid approaches, students must choose and defend their strategy.World-RankWorld-RankProduces a deliverable that can be objectively scored against every other student submission ever made for this project. Feeds the global leaderboard.1 Hour●1 HourSingle 60-minute class session — quick exercise, no prep or homework required.

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THAT'S EAT-ERTAINMENT transforms a glamorous Boca Raton Rat Pack restaurant into a legal minefield involving Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., publicity rights, trademark law, copyright licensing, music usage, memorabilia, branding, and the economics of nostalgia. Students are hired as entertainment counsel to a booming restaurant chain accused of cashing in on dead celebrity identities without permission. The deeper they dig, the uglier—and more fascinating—the business realities become. This project forces students to confront one of entertainment law's hardest truths: sometimes the entire business model is built on borrowed fame. Behind the velvet ropes, candlelight, and martinis sits a brutal legal question: where does homage end and infringement begin?

ContractsEntertainment LawIntellectual PropertyNegotiationRight of PublicityCopyrightTrademark

TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.CreativityCreativityOpen-ended problem-solving — multiple valid approaches, students must choose and defend their strategy.Real WorldReal WorldDrawn from a real legal matter — names changed, facts intact. Plays like augmented reality where Googling and industry knowledge can give initiated students an advantage.World-RankWorld-RankProduces a deliverable that can be objectively scored against every other student submission ever made for this project. Feeds the global leaderboard.1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

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THAT'S EAT-ERTAINMENT transforms a glamorous Boca Raton Rat Pack restaurant into a legal minefield involving Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., publicity rights, trademark law, copyright licensing, music usage, memorabilia, branding, and the economics of nostalgia. Students are hired as entertainment counsel to a booming restaurant chain accused of cashing in on dead celebrity identities without permission. The deeper they dig, the uglier—and more fascinating—the business realities become. This project forces students to confront one of entertainment law's hardest truths: sometimes the entire business model is built on borrowed fame. Behind the velvet ropes, candlelight, and martinis sits a brutal legal question: where does homage end and infringement begin?

CopyrightTrademarkBusiness AssociationsEntertainment LawNegotiationRight of Publicity

TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.CreativityCreativityOpen-ended problem-solving — multiple valid approaches, students must choose and defend their strategy.Real WorldReal WorldDrawn from a real legal matter — names changed, facts intact. Plays like augmented reality where Googling and industry knowledge can give initiated students an advantage.World-RankWorld-RankProduces a deliverable that can be objectively scored against every other student submission ever made for this project. Feeds the global leaderboard.1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

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MOONRISE: THE MAKING OF MOON MAN places students inside the early formation of PROJECT MOON MAN — a rising entertainment and performance venture founded by marketing strategist Kathy Frasier and performer Michael Santiago as they attempt to transform an ambitious creative concept into a real commercial enterprise. Kathy created the foundation of the brand: the name MOON MAN, the visual identity, the origin story, the website, the marketing strategy, the business concept, and even the iconic helmet itself. Michael brings performance ability, public presence, and the potential to become the living face behind the mask. Together, they believe they are building something far bigger than a performer, DJ act, or social media personality. They believe they are creating a scalable entertainment property. Now they hire your law firm. Students serve as junior associates inside a fast-moving business start-ups and intellectual property practice representing the founders during the critical early stages of the company’s development. Their job is not simply to “spot issues.” Their job is to help structure the business before success, money, fame, investors, and competing ambitions create problems that could destroy it.

TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.