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Volume 48 Masthead

Reimagining The Music Industry: In Search Of A More Perfect Union, Loren E. Mulraine -- Professor Of Law

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This Article challenges the long-standing accepted business model of the music industry, including recording contract terms, ownership of masters, artist recoupment, and copyright terminations. It explores the negative implications of failing to revise these methods and neglecting to create a more equitable relationship between artists and recording companies. Indeed, the music industry is an outlier from almost every commercial industry in its financing structure. As such, this Article suggests that the future industry model should include equity ownership of master recordings. It then reviews the need to revise contract terms and eliminate the unilateral options and the unduly burdensome clauses …

Green Dividends: A Case Study In Green Dividends And The Conditions For Private Ordering Solutions, Anne M. Tucker

Seattle University Law Review

This Essay introduces a novel private ordering solution to facilitate corporate investments in pro-social and environmental initiatives: Green dividends. Green dividends are an optional increase in shareholder dividends that are returned to the company to be reinvested in environmental initiatives or kept by a shareholder.

Green dividends pose an alternative to the current gridlocked debate that corporations can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, and shouldn’t even try to act in pro-social or environmental ways. Turning the common refrains on their head converts each narrative into an element for a successful private ordering solution: authority, accountability, shareholder buy-in, and government- backed enforcement. With Green …

Does Climate Disclosure Work To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Emerging Evidence Suggests Cautious Optimism, Cynthia A. Williams

Seattle University Law Review

Significant regulatory resources have been spent developing global, voluntary climate and sustainability disclosure standards, such as the TCFD, TNRD, and ISSB’s Sustainability and Climate Disclosure standards, or domestically required disclosures, such as in the EU and in the U.S. Thus, it is important to evaluate whether this disclosure, particularly voluntary, qualitative disclosure, will have the power to shift the allocation of capital, will have a significant effect on the management of climate risk within firms, and ultimately will reduce climate change risk and biodiversity loss.

In this Article, several interrelated questions will be discussed. First, what does the empirical evidence …

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble: Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, And Arbitration, Imre S. Szalai Professor Of Social Justice

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Through Ticketmaster’s use of arbitration and the controversy surrounding Ticketmaster’s botched sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, this Article explores problems with the broad use of arbitration in the United States. Arbitration, a private contractual method of resolving disputes in a binding manner, is a neutral process that can provide many benefits. However, under the current broad scope of arbitration law, virtually every type of claim can be arbitrated. A more limited arbitration law could provide more robust enforcement of laws, greater accountability and transparency, and stronger development of precedent within our legal system. Stronger parties (like …

The Gym-Pire Strikes Back: Is The Eighth Circuit's Vacatur Of The Ftc's Click-To-Cancel Rule The End Of The Regulatory Workout For The Health And Fitness Industry?, Nicholas J. Christopolis

UF Law Faculty Publications

There is a broader regulatory battle in which subscription-based businesses, particularly in the health and fitness industry, are being reined in by increasingly aggressive consumer protection regimes. This Article examines this conundrum facing regulators and affected businesses in four parts. Part I explores the concept of negative option marketing, the FTC’s theory of harm and justification for promulgating the Rule in the modern subscription economy, and the compliance burdens it would have imposed on the health and fitness industry. Part II explains the pushback from the health and fitness industry that delayed enforcement, created loopholes, and helped fuel the lawsuits …

The Failure Of Fcc Diversity Initiatives: A Postmortem And A Proposal, Christopher Terry, David Pritchard

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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Football Club Acquisitions And The Markets They Impact, Garry A. Gabison

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Marquette Sports Law Review

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2024 Annual Survey: Recent Developments In Sports Law, Joseph A. Delia, Sydney A. Hardy

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Pennsylvania And Sports Law: Keys To The Keystone State, Adam Epstein

Marquette Sports Law Review

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From Beginning To Center Field Spotlight: Celebrating 35 Years Of Nsli/Cas Olympic Sport & Arbitration, Richard Mclaren, Sammie Cheng

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Ready, Set, Go: The Race Between The Government, The Constitution, And Racehorses, Erik L. Pedersen

Marquette Sports Law Review

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All Bets Are On: It's Time For Wisconsin To Up The Ante And Legalize Mobile Sports Wagering, Nicholas B. Frawley

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Marquette Sports Law Review

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Constitutional Law Application In The Sport Industry, Barbara Osborne

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Is The Nhl Not Taking Its ‘Enforcer’ Role Seriously?, Samantha Rice

Marquette Sports Law Review

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Marquette Sports Law Review

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Marquette Sports Law Review

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Private Equity In College Sports: Enthusiastic Partner Or Meddling Force?, Kent Miller

Marquette Sports Law Review

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