Under NCAA Bylaw 12.3, any student-athlete currently participating or who may be eligible to participate in intercollegiate sports may not agree to be represented by an athlete agent. - Read more...
In her article, Recommendations for Studios: Increasing Good will and Revenue via Fan Conventions, Tiffany Lee argues that American movie studios should …
Back in November 2010, rapper Ryan Leslie announced that his personal laptop had been stolen out of his Mercedes. Leslie “tweeted” what appeared to be an offer of a million dollar reward for the safe return of the MacBook. - Read more...
The increasingly prevalent use of social media raises new questions related to contract formation. In her article Kristen Chiger gives examples of many classic contract cases and principles that the courts may use as precedent to help establish when a contract should be binding if negotiated or offered through social media. - Read more...
While the TV and film industry have been experiencing less revenue from DVD and box office sales since illegal file sharing came into prominence, one way to recoup these losses is to focus on merchandising, especially in one often overlooked venue: fan conventions. Conventions are not just isolated events that occur sporadically throughout the year. - Read more...
It is a strange sports tradition: if a team is victorious in a particularly important game, the winning players will inevitably dump a cooler filled with Gatorade (or water) over the head of their coach. - Read more...
Major League Baseball (“MLB”) revised its amateur draft rules in 2012, which had a significant effect on how much of a signing bonus MLB teams could offer their draftees. - Read more...