Category: Business
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What’s in a Name…or a Voice? Protecting Artists from Deepfakes in the Music Industry
By Danielle Williams — In April of 2023, a collaboration between the highly acclaimed artists Drake and The Weeknd titled “Heart on My Sleeve” gained millions of views on various social media platforms and over half a million streams on Spotify. This new song quickly became a hit as rap and R&B fans repeatedly streamed…
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Cutting the Line: Judiciary Folly and Federal Telemedicine
By George Vavrik — Telemedicine represents a transformative approach to healthcare delivery, leveraging technological advancements to facilitate remote diagnosis, consultation, and treatment.Through modalities such as real-time video conferencing and asynchronous communication methods like store-and-forward mechanisms, telemedicine offers a versatile toolkit for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic interventions. However, telemedicine is restricted, in terms of state-specific…
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NFL Tackled By Antitrust Litigation: Route to Renegotiation of Streaming Deals
By Danielle Williams — In 2024, the NFL had its most-watched Week 1 on record, averaging 21 million viewers per game. The growing popularity of fantasy leagues and sports betting has given fans more reasons to root for teams outside of their hometowns. This increased interest in out-of-market games, coupled with a societal shift to…
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The Price for Plastic: How Oil Companies Float Through Anticompetitive Suits
By Tanner McNamara — The plastic that makes your water bottles, the gasoline that fuels your transportation, the natural gas that heats your house—if one company controls so many aspects of oil, a material so entrenched in our lives, how can they possibly be controlled? Since the 1940s, major oil companies within the United States and…
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Let the Bidding Begin: Tennessee v. NCAA and the Future of NIL Recruitment Bargaining
By Danielle Williams — The prohibition of pay-for-play in college athletics has long been a key component in preserving amateurism in college sports, an arena that generates millions of dollars in revenue for many institutions. Prior to 2021, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA)’s attempt to preserve amateur status maintained that college athletes were to…
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Fly Big or Stay Home?
By Nicholas Vickery — Whether it be for business, vacation, medical treatment, family matters, or something else, Americans are frequently flying. It is thus no surprise that the recent events surrounding the proposed JetBlue acquisition of Spirit Airlines are of great public interest. The two airlines reached a merger agreement on July 28, 2022, and…
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Steering Towards Safety: Analyzing the Constitutionality and Effectiveness of Alternative Regulatory Frameworks in the Production of Self-Driving Vehicles
By Clay Reiferson — How do we weigh the value of the lives of future generations against the people of today? In the United States, federal and state governments are left to ponder this question as they seek to regulate the burgeoning self-driving car industry. It is widely accepted that, by removing human error, self-driving…