WAKE FOREST JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VOLUME 14 NUMBER 1 FALL 2013 AN EXAMINATION OF BASEL III AND THE NEW U.S. BANKING REGULATIONS Andrew L. McElroy .................................................................. 5 HOW TO KILL COPYRIGHT: A BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH TO CONTENT CREATION Kirk Sigmon ........................................................................... 26 THE MIXED USE OF A PERSONAL RESIDENCE: INTEGRATION OF CONFLICTING HOLDING PURPOSES UNDER I.R.C. SECTIONS 121, 280A, AND 1031 Christine Manolakas ............................................................... 62 OPEN SOURCE MODELS IN BIOMEDICINE: WORKABLE COMPLEMENTARY FLEXIBILITIES WITHIN THE PATENT SYSTEM? Aura Bertoni ......................................................................... 126 PRIVATE FAIR USE: STRENGTHENING POLISH COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF ONLINE WORKS BY LOOKING TO U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW Michał Pękała ....................................................................... 166 THE DMCA’S SAFE HARBOR PROVISION: IS IT REALLY KEEPING THE PIRATES AT BAY? Charles K. Lane .................................................................... 192 PERMISSIBLE ERROR?: WHY THE NINTH CIRCUIT’S INCORRECT APPLICATION OF THE DMCA IN MDY INDUSTRIES, LLC V. BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC. REACHES THE CORRECT RESULT James Harrell ........................................................................ 211 ABOUT THE JOURNAL The WAKE FOREST JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW is a student organization sponsored by Wake Forest University School of Law, which is dedicated to the examination of business and intellectual property in the legal context. 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ROSE WAKE FOREST JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VOLUME 14 FALL 2013 NUMBER 1 AN EXAMINATION OF BASEL III AND THE NEW U.S. BANKING REGULATIONS Andrew L. McElroy† I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 7 II. ANALYSIS ......................................................................... 9 A. THE RE-DEFINITION OF REGULATORY CAPITAL AND THE MINIMUM CAPITAL RATIO .............................. 9 B. THE CAPITAL CONSERVATION BUFFER ...................... 10 C. THE COUNTERCYCLICAL CAPITAL BUFFER ................ 13 D. GLOBAL SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT BANKS ............ 15 E. THE LEVERAGE RATIO ................................................ 17 F. LIQUIDITY REQUIREMENTS ......................................... 20 G. THE LIQUIDITY COVERAGE RATIO ............................. 21 H. THE NET STABLE FUNDING RATIO ............................. 23 III. CONCLUSION ................................................................ 25 † J.D., Stanford Law School; M.Fin., Princeton University; Sc.B., Brown University. The author is a corporate law attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He would like to give a special thank you to his family and friends, especially his loving parents. He would also like to thank Professors Joseph Grundfest and Michael Klausner for their guidance and support. Additionally, the Author would like to thank the editors and staff members of the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law for their many hours of hard work to prepare this Article for publication. 6 WAKE FOREST J. [VOL. 14 BUS. & INTELL. PROP. L. ABSTRACT The Basel III framework represents a sea change in the banking industry in terms of the capital charges and liquidity requirements that banks will face. In order to respond to these new regulatory challenges, banks must adapt their decision-making paradigm in a strategic way that responds to the new rules and allows them to remain competitive. This framework, however, is a complex mosaic of consultative documents, incremental enhancements, revisions to those documents, academic research studies, and other references. With the publication of the revised Basel III capital rules in June 2011, the United States capital rules in June 2012, and the Basel III liquidity rules in January 2013, the major regulatory pieces are now in place, and the new banking regime is coming into focus. This Article synthesizes the relevant documents and explains their importance within the broader regulatory framework. 2013] [BASEL III AND THE NEW 7 U.S. BANKING REGULATIONS] I. INTRODUCTION The United States banking agencies have recently begun implementing the most sweeping reforms of U.S. banking law since the introduction of risk-based capital adequacy requirements in 1989.1 Now, as then, U.S. banking agencies are implementing much of the Basel framework, and the changes to U.S. banking law will be far- reaching: the re-definition of regulatory capital, the introduction of risk-based capital adequacy tests, a modification of the leverage ratio, and the introduction of liquidity requirements. The true