About

In 1998, Vanderbilt law students founded the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice, since renamed the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (JETL), to present an informative discussion of the contemporary legal issues that face the entertainment and technology industries. JETL endeavors to provide a venue where practitioners and scholars alike can confront the principal concerns of rapidly changing industries that transcend both culture and medium.

Since 2008, JETL has published four issues annually, including a special issue with papers from JETL's annual symposium. In 2008 JETL sponsored the Vanderbilt IP Roundtable regarding the intersection and evolution of Virtual Worlds, Social Networks & User Generated Content. The 2009 JETL symposium will take place on Friday, October 23, 2009, and is entitled 'Drawing Lines in the Digital Age: Copyright, Fair Use, and Derivative Works.' This event is open to the general public.

Prior to 2008, JETL published three issues annually. Past volumes have included articles on the legality of excluding preparatory players from the NBA, the protection of copyright in the age of peer to peer file sharing, and the regulation of distance learning in higher education.