MMD&C Congratulates Law Clerk, Grace V. Yarosewick
MMD&C would like to congratulate their law clerk, Grace V. Yarosewick, on all her hard work and recent accomplishments! Grace was recently chosen as one of the Widener Law Review’s student note authors and will be having her article published in Volume 31 of the Widener Law Review. In addition, Grace is MMD&C’s newest hire and will be joining the firm full-time in August 2025.
Grace joined MMD&C as an intern in February 2021 – almost four years ago – and has been with the firm ever since. At the beginning of her time with us, Grace was an undergraduate student at West Chester University. Flash forward and she is now a third-year student at Widener University Delaware Law School and will be receiving her J.D. degree in May 2025. In addition to her studies and working at MMD&C, Grace is very involved in the extracurricular activities at Delaware Law School. She is a Staff Editor for the Widener Law Review and is also the Event Director for the student chapter of the American Constitution Society. After finishing her law school journey and taking the bar examination, Grace will be joining MMD&C as a full-time attorney this coming August.
Widener Law Review is a prestigious general interest law review, publishing articles focused on current legal issues over a wide range of topics. Grace joined the Widener Law Review in February 2024, after participating in the school’s yearly write-on competition. After working hard on her article, Grace was recently chosen as one of the Law Review’s student note authors! Grace’s article, entitled “Protect Authors Not Algorithms: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Its Interference with Copyright Law,” will be published in Widener Law Review’s Volume 31 during spring 2025. In her article, Grace focuses on the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) has altered the concept of creativity and has therefore created many new opportunities for creators, whether that be artists, musicians, writers, or the like. As AI has created these new opportunities, it has clashed with copyright law and created a number of distinctive issues that courts and the Copyright Office have been trying to solve. Throughout her article, Grace seeks to discuss what these difficult issues are and how the Copyright Office has limited copyright protection solely to human authors. Thus, Grace speaks on how human authors can protect their unique works from AI interference and keep their rights protected under copyright law.
Grace’s article is split into six distinctive sections. In section one, she introduces the concept of AI and its growth. Section two focuses on the beginning of AI and how it has evolved since its creation, including what new opportunities it presents for the world as a whole – especially those in the creative field. In section three, Grace discusses copyright law, explaining the protections afforded to human authors and their creative works under the Copyright Act. Section four then goes on to discuss several relevant cases that faced the issue of copyright and its intersection with AI, explaining how these cases resolved the issues and what position the law currently takes on the matter. Then, in section five, Grace focuses exclusively on the implications AI has in the world of copyright law. This section includes the different effects the infringement of AI has on human authors as well as a brief section regarding what difficult questions copyright law currently faces because of the use of AI. Grace closes out her article in section six, where she discusses how human authors can be proactive in protecting themselves and their unique works from AI infringement. The last section also touches on what to do if such infringement does occur.
Grace’s article dives deep into the world of copyright law and AI. MMD&C is so proud of her for this opportunity to share her writing with the public, and we can’t wait to read it. In addition, we are so excited to have her join us in August 2025 as our newest hire. Congratulations Grace!