Federal Judge Throws Wrench Into NCAA’s NIL Plans
By Charlie Visconti
In January 2024, Virginia and Tennessee’s attorneys general filed an antitrust suit against the NCAA alleging that the NCAA’s name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) guidelines introduced in 2021 violated federal antitrust laws. Specifically, the suit alleges that the NCAA guidelines improperly prevents college athletes from earning their full potential from their name, image, and likeness. The NCAA’s guidelines were released following the Supreme Court case Alston v. NCAA, which kicked off the NIL era in college sports, allowing athletes to profit, with restrictions, off their name, image, and likeness. Read more about the NIL issues in Charlie’s new blog post here.
Algospeak: Jailbreaking the Marketplace of Ideas
By Amaris Aloise
Social media algorithms have become the captors of the marketplace of ideas, but they have also captured its importance to US culture. With the exponential rise in algorithmic content moderation, the marketplace of ideas has become dependent on internet culture and slang, resulting in a “chronically online” censorship of expression known as “algospeak.” A “sub language” created by social media users, algospeak refers to the replacement of words or phrases disfavored or banned by a platform’s algorithm and community guidelines with ones that evade detection by algorithmic content moderators. Read more about algospeak and its impact on social media in Amaris’ new post here.
JETLaw in the News: 2022 Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings
Released on July 15, 2023, the 2022 Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings provide citation data and calculated ranks for the top 400 U.S.-published law journals and the top 100 law journals published outside the United States. The survey span of the 2022 ranking is five years (2018-2022). This year, continuing its trend of academic and scholarly excellence, the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law placed within the top 50 best specialized journals, alongside a placement as the #2 ranked journal in the “Arts, Entertainment, and Sports Law” category and as the #9 ranked journal for the “Science, Technology, and Computing” category.
JETLaw in the News: Of DNA & Agriculture
In recent months, JETLaw has been cited in a number of articles and publications across the country, covering a wide variety of topics including DNA processing, anticultural issues, antitrust and FTC merger policy, and artificial intelligence. Check out some of these recent works below, and congratulations to the cited authors for their ongoing impact to global law and policy.