Volume 26
Breaking Cultural and Financial Barriers in Olympic Sports
Jan. 18, 2024—Maureen A. Weston | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 347 (2024) Nelson Mandela has said that “[s]port has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does . . . . It is more powerful than...
Tackling Bias in Sport: Recognizing the Impact of Identities
Jan. 18, 2024—Meg Hancock | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 329 (2024) Studies suggest participation in organized sports—from childhood to adulthood—promotes positive physical, social, emotional, and intellectual benefits that impact individuals and their communities over a lifetime. Sports participation in early childhood and adolescence also leads to higher self-esteem, greater wage-earning potential, lower health costs,...
Forget About FERPA: How FOIA Protects Student-Athlete Privacy in the NIL Era
Jan. 18, 2024—Kamron Cox | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 297 (2024) The start of the name, image, and likeness (NIL) era stirred public fervor about the new earning potential of high-profile student-athletes. Since institutional policies and state laws governing NIL require student-athletes to broadly disclose information about their NIL activities to their respective institutions,...
Beyond NIL
Jan. 18, 2024—William W. Berry III | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 275 (2024) The name, image, and likeness (NIL) changes and shifting landscape obscure more existential threats to the student-athlete model on the horizon. The television money that Power Five conference teams receive still comprises much of the budget of athletic departments. The football...
Navigating the Tension Between Preservation and Development Pressure: Cities’ Imperative to Save Independent Music Landmarks While Simultaneously Providing for Growth
Nov. 28, 2023—Mary-Michael Robertson | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 211 (2023) While cities can use their power to enact zoning ordinances and create historic preservation districts, these preservation ordinances vary widely across the United States, from allowing almost any type of development to strictly limiting any new development that does not match existing height,...
The End of an Era: The Uncertain Future of Section 230 Immunity for Social Media Platforms
Nov. 28, 2023—Lillian H. Rucker | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 241 (2023) Major social media platforms (SMPs), such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, have become the primary means of communication for billions of people worldwide. They are the largest modern news distributors and the primary curators of online public discourse. However, the expanding influence...
Regulation Priorities for Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models
Nov. 28, 2023—Matthew R. Gaske | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 1 (2023) This Article responds to the call in technology law literature for high-level frameworks to guide regulation of the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Accordingly, it adapts a generalized form of the fintech Innovation Trilemma framework to argue that a...
©ancelling Dr. Seuss
Nov. 28, 2023—Cathay Y. N. Smith | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 73 (2023) Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced in March 2021 that it would no longer license or publish six of its children’s books because those books portrayed people in racist or culturally stereotypical ways. Since then, the public has learned through news reports and...
Breaking the Fourth’s Wall: The Implications of Remote Education for Students’ Fourth Amendment Rights
Nov. 27, 2023—Sallie Hatfield | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 179 (2023) As the COVID-19 pandemic forced both public K-12 and higher education institutions to transition to exclusively provide remote education, students’ homes and personal lives were exposed to the government like never before. Zoom classes and remote proctoring were suddenly the norm. Students and...
Copyright’s Lost Art of Substantial Similarity
Nov. 27, 2023—Sandra M. Aistars | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 109 (2023) Three copyright doctrines focus more than any others on the contributions of authors to visual artworks: originality, substantial similarity, and fair use. Questions regarding the aesthetics of works of authorship filter into judicial determinations under each of these doctrines. This Article comments...