Issue 4
How the Law Makes Smart Cities Unaccountable, and How to Start Making It Better: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto
Jun. 19, 2025—Beatriz Botero Arcila | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 619 (2025) Sidewalk Toronto was the flagship project of Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. It was the largest smart-city project planned in North America or Europe. It is also the most notable failure of such a project to date....
Governing Global Gig Platforms in the Age of AI: When the Manager is an Algorithm
Jun. 19, 2025—David S. Lee & Felicia F. Chen | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 689 (2025) Gig workers are vulnerable to discrimination from the sharing economy platforms on which they work. This challenge is worsened by these platforms’ dependence on algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, which are used to control and direct gig...
Applying the Public Forum Doctrine to Public Official and Campaign Social Media Accounts
Jun. 19, 2025—Jonathan Peters & Skylar Bandoly | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 757 (2025) The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in the 2019 case Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. Trump that the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account was a designated public forum, making it a First Amendment violation for...
State and Regulatory Agency Approaches to Limiting Deepfakes in Political Advertising
Jun. 19, 2025—Mary Margaret Burniston | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 797 (2025) With recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), regulators have turned their attention to the issue of how—and whether—to regulate the use of AI in political advertisements. While nineteen states have passed legislation regulating AI in political advertising, such regulations may be challenged...
Roll for Lawsuit: Are Actual-Play Series Copyright Infringers?
Jun. 19, 2025—Mark Mehochko | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 831 (2025) Dungeons and Dragons is a highly popular Tabletop Role-Playing Game designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1973. The game’s emphasis on narrative storytelling makes it an interesting subject for copyright analysis. When a group plays Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) for an...
De-Identified and Unregulated: How Data Brokers Outpace State Privacy Laws
Jun. 19, 2025—Hannah Moore | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 863 (2025) State consumer privacy laws, though increasingly important in the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy framework, fail to effectively regulate the practices of data brokers who exploit de-identified data. Laws like the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) exempt de-identified data from key protections,...
NIL Speeds Ahead While Title IX Trails Behind: Finding Room for Title IX in the Evolving NIL Landscape
Jun. 19, 2025—Sophie Zelony | 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 899 (2025) Title IX was enacted to eliminate sex-based discrimination in educational programs receiving federal funding, including intercollegiate athletics. While the law has successfully increased female participation in sports, disparities in the treatment of male and female athletes persist, particularly in the context of publicity...