This is an edited version of the text of the Editorial to appear in the next issue of ESLJ, and includes the contents list and also our new mode of publishing as from 2013.
ESLJ 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
EDITORIAL
We are proud to be able to celebrate the tenth year of publication of the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal with this anniversary edition. The last 10 years have proved eventful in many ways, not least for the journal. Starting out as the journal Entertainment Law with Frank Cass in 2002, when Frank Cass were taken over by Taylor Francis we made the decision to move the journal into the developing field of open access, and heralded this with a name to change, after much debate adding ‘Sports Law’ to the title to reflect the large amount of sport based material we were starting to attract at the time. The past ten years have seen many developments in the publishing industry, both inside and outside of academia, not least in terms of the ways and means by which material can now be published and the possibilities of the on line environment for this.
We have taken the opportunity of the tenth anniversary to freshen up the journal and make some new additions. These include the following, although we see the journal as developing organically so these may not be the last changes that will be seen and there may be tweaks during this process. The key change is however that from 2013 we will be adopting a new iterative publishing policy. Oneof the possibilities of online open access publishing is to publish material as soon as it has been accepted by the editors following external expert peer review. This is a model used successfully by journals such as the Scandinavian Sports Studies Forum, and from 2013 we will be adopting this policy. There is still however the possibility of self-standing ‘Special Issues’. These have long been supported by the journal, and anyone interested in one of these should contact one of the Editors.
Articles
Geoff Pearson - Dirty Trix at Euro 2008: Brand Protection, Ambush Marketing and Intellectual Property Theft at the European Football Championships
Adam Pendlebury - The Regulation of on-the-ball Offences: Challenges in Court
Cory Doctorow – The coming war on general computation.
Whilst not an article as such, this is our first foray into a multimedia presentation in the journal. The lecture was given as part of the Entertainment Law: Theory Meets Practice Series at the Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture, University of Westminster in February 2012. It is presented in both edited version, courtesy of The Guardian newspaper and in full unedited form via the University of Westminster website.
Interventions
Christian Ambruster – Stemming illegal trade of works of art - how can Private law contribute?
Daniel Geey Football League Financial Fair Play: Domestic League Regulation