Professor Taddeo, Esq.

#0108

$29.997

FCM ONE: It's All Foreign Currency to Me follows the launch of a high-risk online currency exchange startup built by one relentless founder working around the clock beside graduate students, coders, and quantitative analysts hired to translate massive financial formulas into functioning software under work-for-hire agreements. As the platform begins scaling internationally, the legal problems grow just as fast. Ownership of code, IP assignment, contractor classification, confidentiality, proprietary algorithms, and financial compliance collide inside a business where tiny formula errors can create enormous losses. The founder built the vision, funded the chaos, and pushed the project forward—but who actually owns the platform once everybody's code becomes part of the machine?

Contracts

SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.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-RankYour students' papers are ranked against every other paper ever submitted! Every Student! Every School! THE WORLD RANK LEADERBOARD!3 Hours●3 HoursThree-hour work session — typical seminar or workshop length, often a single afternoon.

#0109

$49.995

CRAZY CUPS claims it owns the patent rights to silicone drinkware and has begun threatening competitors, retailers, and manufacturers with lawsuits over flexible drinking cups. But does owning a patent mean owning an entire product category? This project forces students into the middle of a modern intellectual-property war involving patents, product design, manufacturing, marketing claims, licensing leverage, competition strategy, and the dangerous gap between legal reality and corporate intimidation. Students must determine whether CRAZY CUPS truly owns groundbreaking technology—or whether the company is using aggressive legal threats to scare an entire industry into submission.

NegotiationPatentsContracts

VersusVersusHead-to-head: each student is matched against one opponent in a focused, time-pressured exchange.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.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-RankYour students' papers are ranked against every other paper ever submitted! Every Student! Every School! THE WORLD RANK LEADERBOARD!1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

#0101

$49.990

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 Law

TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.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-RankYour students' papers are ranked against every other paper ever submitted! Every Student! Every School! THE WORLD RANK LEADERBOARD!1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

#0102

$49.9920

Based upon the real-life entertainment industry experience of Project author John Taddeo, Esq. during his time at Marvel and Fleer, this negotiation project drops students into the middle of a high-stakes battle over the creation of the legendary Marvel Masterpieces trading card series. Students become outside counsel negotiating between Fleer/Marvel and the world-famous Hildebrandt Brothers as millions of dollars in artwork, licensing rights, publicity, creative control, reproduction rights, deadlines, and collectible value hang in the balance. This is not abstract contract theory. It is entertainment law, intellectual property, and business strategy colliding inside one of the most influential comic collectible projects of the 1990s.

CopyrightNegotiation

VersusVersusHead-to-head: each student is matched against one opponent in a focused, time-pressured exchange.TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.Oral ArgumentOral ArgumentLive spoken-advocacy practice — argue before a judge, panel, or opposing counsel.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.3 Hours●3 HoursThree-hour work session — typical seminar or workshop length, often a single afternoon.

#0107

$399.9922

WHO IS BRAINGASM-X?!?!? throws students into a Supreme Court–level collision between parody, copyright, fair use, comics, politics, and pop culture. Students must argue whether a provocative artist's superhero-inspired works are protected expression or actionable infringement — while navigating litigation strategy, media optics, and the brutal economics of modern IP warfare. hey thought the characters were untouchable. They are recognized as the World's Greatest Superheroes. DC & Marvel believed nobody would dare. Until somebody did, a mysterious masked street artist that goes by the tag: Braingasm-X. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody knows where he lives. Is he a genius, a criminal, a revolutionary, he might be the most dangerous artist of in a generation. His paintings - provocative - evocative - thought provoking... detonated the art world. Collectors fought to own them. Lawyers demanded they be removed... but fans couldn't stop talking about them. Braingasm-X didn't paint superheroes. He dragged them out of fantasy and into the real world. Into politics. Into censorship. Into power. Into corruption. Into hypocrisy. Into the cultural battles tearing society apart. Billion-dollar corporations want answers...but the zeitgeist controls the question. This Summer Creativity Goes on Trial. Who owns imagination. Who controls culture. WHO IS BRAINGASM-X?

CopyrightEntertainment LawIntellectual Property1st AmendmentMoot CourtConstitutional Law

VersusVersusHead-to-head: each student is matched against one opponent in a focused, time-pressured exchange.TeamTeamCollaborative work in groups — students share roles, deliverables, and the win.SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.Oral ArgumentOral ArgumentLive spoken-advocacy practice — argue before a judge, panel, or opposing counsel.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-RankYour students' papers are ranked against every other paper ever submitted! Every Student! Every School! THE WORLD RANK LEADERBOARD!Moot Court CompetitionMoot Court CompetitionStructured as a moot court competition — typically appellate brief writing plus oral argument before a panel of judges.1 Week●1 WeekOne-week project with a deliverable due at the end of the week.

#0112

$29.9914

Based on a REAL comic book property published through Diamond Comics, ZOOM SUIT: The Work For Hire Agreement Project turns students into entertainment lawyers protecting a multimedia franchise from future ownership wars. Using Aalmuhammed v. Lee, students draft a real-world Work For Hire Agreement involving comics, animation, streaming, merchandising, freelancers, and legendary comic creators. ZOOM SUIT features the artwork of legendary comic book artists BOB LAYTON (the definitive Iron Man Artist), Gene Colon (Cover Artist of the original IRON MAN #1), Bart Sears, Bill Tucci, Jim Starlin, Keron Grant and Billy Dallas Patton. Winner of over FIFTY film festival awards!

ContractsEmployment / Labor Law

SoloSoloIndependent work — each student produces their own deliverable on their own.DraftingDraftingStudents produce written deliverables — contracts, briefs, motions, demand letters, memos.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-RankYour students' papers are ranked against every other paper ever submitted! Every Student! Every School! THE WORLD RANK LEADERBOARD!3 Hours●3 HoursThree-hour work session — typical seminar or workshop length, often a single afternoon.