{"id":9674,"date":"2025-11-26T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:55:46","slug":"piggy-banks-to-paychecks-ensuring-child-content-creators-protection-against-financial-exploitation-by-parents-and-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/volume-27-issue-2\/piggy-banks-to-paychecks-ensuring-child-content-creators-protection-against-financial-exploitation-by-parents-and-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggy Banks to Paychecks: Ensuring Child Content Creators\u2019 Protection Against Financial Exploitation by Parents and Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Note_Vora_to_Publish11.26.25_Final.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Note_Vora_to_Publish11.26.25_Final<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The digital age is dangerous. Among those most at risk are child content creators, who often face financial exploitation by the hands of a parent or guardian. Although California\u2019s recent amendments to the Coogan framework\u2014legislation designed to protect the earnings of minors in the entertainment industry\u2014mark a meaningful step towards protecting children, the state legislature has acknowledged that loopholes remain. These gaps include hidden costs of protection that may exclude low-income families, blur boundaries, and perpetuate developmental inequality. Moreover, the framework\u2019s current strict set-aside baseline may limit lower-income households\u2019 ability to compete in a heavily saturated influencer economy, while entrenching the market dominance of well-resourced creators. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Note argues that reform must empower courts to adjudicate individual lawsuits\u2014between children and their parents or guardians\u2014with flexibility rather than a strict one-size-fits-all approach. A flexible approach, paired with stronger oversight of parental use of their child\u2019s image in monetized content, would better align legislative goals with the realities of the digital age.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Note_Vora_to_Publish11.26.25_Final.pdf\">https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Note_Vora_to_Publish11.26.25_Final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Spencer S. Vora<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume 27, Issue 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital age is dangerous. Among those most at risk are child content creators, who often face financial exploitation by the hands of a parent or guardian. Although California\u2019s recent amendments to the Coogan framework\u2014legislation designed to protect the earnings of minors in the entertainment industry\u2014mark a meaningful step towards protecting children, the state legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/volume-27-issue-2\/piggy-banks-to-paychecks-ensuring-child-content-creators-protection-against-financial-exploitation-by-parents-and-guardians\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[672],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}