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In this episode, host Jeremy M. Evans explores how Hollywood has increasingly borrowed business concepts from professional sports—particularly around branding, talent leverage, and deal-making—while overlooking the core structural elements that actually make sports models work.
Jeremy breaks down the fundamental differences between how sports and entertainment industries govern
In this week’s column, California Sports Lawyer® CEO and Managing Attorney Jeremy M. Evans examines the growing perception that Hollywood is in chaos—and explains why the industry is not collapsing, but reorganizing around a sports league–style economic model that is missing the very system that makes sports
In this episode, host Jeremy M. Evans examines how the original vision for name, image, and likeness (NIL) in college athletics has drifted far from its intent and why current compliance systems are no longer fit for purpose. Rather than remaining outside athlete-driven market activity, many schools and conferences are
In this week’s column, California Sports Lawyer® CEO and Managing Attorney Jeremy M. Evans writes about the concerns and solutions around name, image, and likeness (NIL) in college athletics.
Name, image, and likeness (NIL), in its infancy, was premised on a clear distinction: off-the-field, market-driven revenue negotiated by student-athlete
In Episode 2 of Season 8, host Jeremy M. Evans examines one of the most urgent and unsettled issues in modern sports and entertainment: how artificial intelligence is reshaping media rights in ways that existing contracts, leagues, and laws never anticipated. As AI-generated content, synthetic voices, automated highlights, and data-driven
