Gambling goes back to before the founding of America. The Continental Congress authorized a lottery to raise $5 million to fund the Revolutionary War. Over the next 200 years, both the federal and ...
The future was a matter that I always considered carefully, looked forward to, and planned for. My intention was to obtain a strong education that would prepare me for a secure white-collar profession ...
For years, sports betting was branded a moral hazard. But in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA), which allowed states to ...
Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) where a third and neutral party, commonly referred to as an “arbitrator,” assists in resolving disputes among parties. Functioning in various ...
With cutting-edge technological developments in multimodal artificial intelligence profoundly reshaping the sports and entertainment industries, one of the oldest legal concepts is giving pause to ...
Editor’s note: This is the second guest technology column the magazine has featured since Judge Dixon commenced this series in 2007 as our regular technology columnist. We invite our technology-savvy ...
Many athletes and entertainers adorn their bodies with ink—tattoos—a form of self-expression, which become part of their image and likeness. Many such athletes and entertainers license their image and ...
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB), established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2020 and operational since June 16, 2022, is a ...
An epiphany is “an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking” or “an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.” Merriam-Webster.com. Many ...
The realm of combat sports has long been a battleground not only for its competitors but also for the ethical and regulatory frameworks that govern it. From the four corners of a boxing ring to the ...
This edition of The Judges’ Journal focuses on unique issues raised in sports-related court cases and also features two judges who had prior careers as professional athletes, bringing to mind Chief ...
The rise of public-facing artificial intelligence (AI) tools like celebrity voice synthesizers has left industry lawyers and the artists they represent looking for better ways to protect against the ...