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Kickstarting Litigation: What is the Future of Crowdfunded Films?
On April 12, 2013, The Veronica Mars Movie project broke fund raising records, with 91,585 backers pledging a total of $5,702,153. The catch? The film was funded on the crowdfunding website,...
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Defamation, Celebrities, and the Internet
PDF Download of the Article By the very nature of their positions, celebrities in both the sports and entertainment spheres generate significant public attention and discussion. While the discourse...
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McFarlin: Ray Rice Video Shows that Cameras Should Do the Talking
In both tragedies of domestic violence and alleged police brutality, the victim can be silenced. Cameras can’t. In a domestic violence incident, the victim can be silenced through the psychological...
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Interview with Professor Peter Carfagna
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with Harvard Law School Professor Peter Carfagna to discuss current issues in sports law. A portion of that interview is transcribed here....
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Unpaid Interns in Sports and Entertainment
It is generally accepted that the path to a career in the sports and entertainment industries begins with an unpaid internship performing menial tasks, through which up-and-comers receive an...
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Occam’s Razor and Sports Wagering Law
On January 14, 2015, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie filed his most recent brief (hereinafter “Christie II”) to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the state’s continued attempt to offer sports...
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Jumpman Case Is No Slam Dunk
In 1984, Life Magazine published a photograph taken by Jacobus Rentmeester of Michael Jordan dunking a basketball while wearing USA Olympic warm-up gear. Shortly thereafter, Nike’s Peter Moore, the...
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Interview With Professor Ken Basin
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with Professor Ken Basin to discuss current issues in entertainment law. Ken Basin holds adjunct faculty appointments at Harvard Law...
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Without Consequence: When Professional Athletes Are Violent Off the Field
[Editors’ Note: This article, which can be downloaded here, will be published in JSEL’s forthcoming issue. It follows Ms. Withers’ highly regarded 2010 article on the same subject, The Integrity of...
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Volume 6-1 Released
JSEL Volume 6, Number 1 (full version PDF) ARTICLES Catalyzing Fans Dan Markel, Michael McCann, and Howard M. Wasserman Linking to Liability: When Linking to Leaked Movies, Scripts, and Television...
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Interview with Sports Lawyer Peter R. Ginsberg
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with attorney Peter Ginsberg, counsel to Ray Rice, to discuss current issues in sports law. As managing partner of Peter R. Ginsberg Law,...
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Featuring the first two articles in Professor Charles E. Colman’s series on principles of copyright protection for fashion design, an article on implementing a franchise player designation in the NBA,...
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Interview with Boston Red Sox Senior VP David Friedman
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with David Friedman, Senior Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs for the Red Sox and Senior Counsel for Fenway Sports Group, to...
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Interview with NBA General Counsel Rick Buchanan
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with Rick Buchanan, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the NBA, to discuss current issues in professional sports. Rick is a...
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Influence of the Private Enforcement of Competition Law on Sport in the...
This commentary piece was written by Dr hab. Marek Krzysztof Kolasiński, professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and was submitted in conjunction with Professor Kolasiński’s recent...
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Interview with Dr. hab. Marek Krzysztof Kolasiński
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with Professor Marek Krzysztof Kolasiński, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, to discuss the application of competition...
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Interview with Dolores DiBella- Counsel to the NFL
The Journal on Sports and Entertainment Law recently sat down with attorney Dolores DiBella, Counsel to the NFL, to discuss current issues in sports law and career development. Ms. DiBella currently...
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Volume 7-1 Released
JSEL Volume 7, Number 1 (Full Version PDF) ARTICLES Comparing NCAA and Olympic Athlete Eligibility Dispute Resolution Systems in Light of Procedural Fairness and Substantive Justice Josephine R....
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Volume 7-2 Released!
JSEL Volume 7, Number 2 (Full Version PDF) Preface by Professor Peter Carfagna, Faculty Advisor to JSEL ARTICLES The History and Doctrine of American Copyright Protection for Fashion Design: Managing...
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Is Real-World Protection Available for Fictional Fashions?
By Douglas Hand, Jr. and Marc S. Reiner[1] I. Introduction Englishman Charles Frederick Worth is credited as the father of the modern fashion industry in the nineteenth century.[2]...
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