Volume 25, Issue 1
How Free Should a Freeport Be?: Reducing Money Laundering in the Art Market through Freeport Regulation
Mar. 6, 2023—Cates Grier Saleeby | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 239 (2023) The tax incentives that luxury freeports provide have created opportunities for money laundering and other forms of financial crime through the sale of art. The use of such institutions in combination with the anonymity that art transactions allow can create a series...
A Compulsory Solution to the Machine Problem: Recognizing Artificial Intelligence as Inventors in Patent Law
Mar. 6, 2023—Cole G. Merritt | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 211 (2023) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already disrupting and will likely continue to disrupt many industries. Despite the role AI already plays, AI systems are becoming increasingly powerful. Ultimately, these systems may become a powerful tool that can lead to the discovery of important...
Something Doesn’t Add Up: Solving DNA Forensic Science Statistical Fallacies in Trial Testimony
Mar. 6, 2023—Kendall Brooke Kilberger | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 181 (2023) While the limitations of traditional forensic sciences are generally recognized, the presentation of DNA forensic science statistical testimony has widely evaded criticism. This lack of oversight has allowed four DNA forensic science statistical fallacies to plague the legal system: providing statistics without empirical...
The Data Trust Solution to Data Sharing Problems
Mar. 6, 2023—Kimberly A. Houser* & John W. Bagby | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 113 (2023) A small number of large companies hold most of the world’s data. Once in the hands of these companies, data subjects have little control over the use and sharing of their data. Additionally, this data is not generally available...
Co-Authorship Between Photographers and Portrait Subjects
Mar. 6, 2023—Molly Torsen Stech | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 53 (2023) Copyright law provides that when two or more authors create a single work with the intent of merging their contributions into inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole, the authors are considered joint authors. For photographic works, judicial precedent establishes that the...
The Death of the Legal Subject
Mar. 6, 2023—Katrina Geddes | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L.1 (2023) The law is often engaged in prediction. In the calculation of tort damages, for example, a judge will consider what the tort victim’s likely future earnings would have been, but for their particular injury. Similarly, when considering injunctive relief, a judge will assess whether...