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FTC Issues First-Ever Orders Restricting Data Broker Industry
Jan. 31, 2024—By Alvin Zhang Earlier this month, the FTC issued its first-ever bans on the sales of sensitive user data by data broker companies.[1] In orders issued on January 9 and 18, the agency barred digital marketing companies OutLogic (formerly known as X-Model Social) and InMarket Media from sharing, selling, or transferring their users’ sensitive location...
Just a Sample Can’t Be So Bad: Adopting the De Minimus Standard for Sampling Music in the Modern Era
Jan. 29, 2024—By Paul Gerstle Sampling has long been a popular medium by which artists can express themselves by borrowing bits of another artist’s song for their own purposes. However, use of another artist’s work can cause legal issues. After all, the original song is the property of another, and the new artist cannot simply appropriate that...
Game-Changer: Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers Move Sparks Luxury Tax Reform Talks
Jan. 26, 2024—By Hunter Berry Shohei Ohtani is, without doubt, this generation’s Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson. The 29-year-old has made waves not only throughout the United States, but the world, for a feat few in baseball can achieve at the professional level: serving as a two-way player with the ability to excel as both a pitcher...
Expediting Drug Development of Novel Therapeutics: Regulatory and Commercialization Implications of Digital Twin Technology in Clinical Trials
Jan. 24, 2024—By Colleen Carroll Clinical trials are a major bottleneck for new drug development.[1] No drug will make it to market without first meeting rigorous safety and efficacy standards. This requires extensive testing across multiple phases of clinical trials, which take, on average, ten and a half years.[2] But advances in AI may transform clinical trials...
Google’s Digital Advertising: A Showcase of Challenge to the Sherman Act Section Two from Big Tech Data Aggregation
Jan. 22, 2024—By Maggie Ren Today, the currency we use to pay for the services of these tech companies is not money, but instead it is data. [1] Google, a technology giant, has leveraged its data aggregation capabilities and algorithms driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to become a dominant force in digital marketing.[2] Google provides products and...
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...
Reconsidering the Merits of a Federal Data Privacy Law
Jan. 16, 2024—By Rachel Davis Americans have expressed growing concerns about the extent of data collection, with many feeling that the security of their information has diminished over time.[1] These concerns are well-founded. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in major sectors of the economy—banking, healthcare, commerce, education—has exacerbated the need for robust data privacy protections...