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The House That Taxpayers Built: Exploring The Rise In Publicly Funded Baseball Stadiums From 1953 Through The Present, Marc Edelman

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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Restoring The Balance: Bringing Back Consumer Rights In Umg Recordings V. Augusto By Reaffirming The First Sale Doctrine In Copyright Law, Maureen Steimer

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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Full Court Press: How Collective Bargaining Weakened The Nba's Competitive Edge In A Globalized Sport, Matthew Epps

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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The Monopoly Myth: A Comment On The Public Funding Of Sports Stadiums, Jeffrey Standen

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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Harry Potter And The Copyright Act: Have The Courts Finally Waved A Magic Wand By Defining Fair Use For Secondary Authors, Meg Reid

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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Are You Not Entertained - Is This Not Why You Are Here - U.S. Taxation Of Foreign Athletes And Entertainers, Stephen Taylor

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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One Strike And You're Out: Alcohol In The Major League Baseball Clubhouse, Steven B. Berneman

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In the past decade, much has been written about Major League Baseball's (MLB) mistaken policies regarding performance-enhancing substance abuse by players. MLB executives are shortsighted, however, if they believe that steroids are the only substances being abused by players. Along with performance-enhancing drugs, professional baseball has a long-standing history of alcohol abuse. Steroids may provide better headlines--Congress has never held an investigation into alcohol abuse by professional athletes--but professional baseball faces a real danger from the unchecked liability of allowing players to overindulge at the ballpark and drive home shortly thereafter. By serving beer in the clubhouse after games, clubs …

Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown: Why Content's Kingdom Is Slipping Away, Jonathan Handel

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This Article examines the ongoing power struggle between the content industries (with a particular focus on Hollywood) and the technology industry. These two sectors are intertwined like never before, yet their fates seem wildly divergent, with content stumbling while distribution technology thrives.

The Article begins by illustrating that, even before the recession took hold, traditional paid content was in trouble, and that this was and is true across a range of distribution platforms and content types, including theatrical motion pictures, home video, network television, music, newspapers, books, and magazines. The Article next posits six reasons for content's discontent: supply and …

Solidifying The Defensive Line: The Nfl Network's Current Position Under Antitrust Law And How It Can Be Improved, Ethan Flatt

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In the United States, the broadcasting of professional sporting events is a multi-billion dollar industry, and the National Football League (NFL) alone earned more than $3 billion from television contracts during its 2008 season. Considering the massive revenues that broadcast rights can generate, it is no surprise that some major professional sports leagues have recently developed their own television networks. While it was not the first league-owned television network, the NFL Network has certainly generated the most attention. Since it started broadcasting a select number of NFL regular season games in 2006, the NFL Network has been subject to media …

The Magic Circle, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This Article examines the concept of the "magic circle," the metaphorical barrier that supposedly excludes real-world law from virtual worlds. The Article argues that this metaphor fails because there is no "real" world as distinguished from "virtual" worlds. Instead of a magic circle, this Article advocates a rule of consent: actions in a virtual world give rise to legal liability if they exceed the scope of consent given by other players within the game. The Article concludes that although real-world law cannot reasonably be excluded from virtual worlds, game gods and players can control the interface between law and virtual …

Dr. Strange-Rating Or: How I Learned That The Motion Picture Association Of America's Film Rating System Constitutes False Advertising, Jason K. Albosta

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a trade association whose members include film production studios, distributors, and theater chains, administers the most popular system for rating the content contained in the vast majority of publicly exhibited motion pictures in the United States. The stated goal of the rating scheme is to caution parents about any objectionable content that a film contains in order to allow them to make informed decisions about which films they will allow their children to see. While the rating scheme has undergone several changes since its establishment to further its stated goal, a fundamental conflict …

Team Physicians: Adhering To The Hippocratic Oath Or Just Plain Hypocrites? , Andrew D. Hohenstein

Marquette Sports Law Review

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2008 Annual Survey: Recent Developments In Sports Law, Kaitlyn Anne Wild

Marquette Sports Law Review

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A Most Interesting Part Of Baseball's Monetary Structure - Salary Arbitration In Its Thirty-Fifth Year, Ed Edmonds

Marquette Sports Law Review

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"Mixed Metaphors," Revisionist History And Post-Hypnotic Suggestions On The Interpretation Of Sports Antitrust Exemptions: The Second Circuit's Use In Clarett Of A Piazza-Like "Innovative Reinterpretation Of Supreme Court Dogma", Walter T. Champion, Jr.

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Where Is The Privacy In Wada's "Whereabouts" Rule? , James Halt

Marquette Sports Law Review

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