As gyms around the country have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Peloton, a popular gym equipment manufacturer, has seen a huge growth in sales. By May 2020, the company reported a 66% increase in sales, and their global membership…
By now, most people have heard of the social media app taking the world by storm–TikTok. TikTok is a free social media networking application that allows its users to create, watch, and share videos. “The convenient mobile-native nature of TikTok,…
On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in NCAA v. Alston, a case concerning the applicability of federal antitrust law to NCAA restrictions on player compensation. While the NCAA is no stranger to antitrust litigation, this is…
The United States and China are familiar foes in their constant fight for influence on the international stage. There have been conflicts between the two countries involving trade deals and tariffs, but there is one concern that has largely gone…
College sports is a multibillion-dollar industry, generating profits for schools, coaches, and conferences. Everyone seems to be getting rich off of these college athletes—everyone, that is, except the players. Since 1906, college athletics have operated under the National Collegiate Athletic…
The last few weeks have been a hectic (or dare-I-say volatile) time for traders. During the month of January, GameStop’s stock has astronomically soared from $18, reaching a peak as high as $483 per share. The “group” responsible for this…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of life, it has had a colossal effect on the production of TV shows and the contractual obligations of the various parties involved. While the production of almost all motion pictures…
For the past eleven months, the world has been focused on one thing – the Coronavirus pandemic. And how could we not? COVID-19 has disrupted life as we knew it, effected virtually every industry, and prompted every email written in…
The Wayback Machine is a well-known resource to law school journal editors and many other people. For editors, it is a tool to confirm the accuracy of claims cited using webpages that are no longer accessible or behind a paywall.…
Americans are proud of their domestic incorporations, sourcing, and/or production and want to market as such. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is a federal agency charged with the authority to regulate unfair and deceptive advertising in the marketplace. If a…
The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic this past year has been economically devastating for nearly every industry and market, but it has hit the arts and entertainment sectors especially hard. The impacts of long-term lockdown and the resulting recession will…
The music industry’s widely anticipated Mechanical Licensing Collective (“MLC”) officially went into effect at the beginning of January 2021. The MLC, which was created via the passage of the Music Modernization Act (“MMA”) in 2018, was created to administer a…
