Volume 26
“Feeding” the Cloud: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Social Media and Streaming Services Through Private Information Disclosure
May. 6, 2024—Madison Hoover | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 549 (2024) Despite their well-known negative aspects, social media and streaming services have become integral for consumers’ daily entertainment and social connection. Although most users have some idea of these services’ harmful mental impacts, they are typically unaware of the carbon emissions that result from...
The Role of Secondary Algorithmic Tacit Collusion in Achieving Market Alignment
May. 6, 2024—Ariel Ezrachi & Maurice E. Stucke | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 461 (2024) Antitrust enforcers now recognize the risks associated with many sellers’ use of a singular hub’s pricing algorithm. But what if many rivals use several different hubs for dynamic pricing? The common assumption is that in such instances, competition among...
Solitude Lost? Preserving the Fourth Amendment in the Age of the Metaverse
May. 6, 2024—Kevin Cibak | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 515 (2024) The Metaverse—a virtual reality platform developed by social media giant Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.)—promises to fundamentally alter the age-old structure of global society. Specifically, the Metaverse seeks to blend physical, virtual, and augmented realities together through a complex web of digital...
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...