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28 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 361 (2021-2022)
The Monetization of Childhood: How Child Social Media Stars Are Unprotected from Exploitation in the United States

handle is hein.journals/cardw28 and id is 379 raw text is: THE MONETIZATION OF CHILDHOOD: HOW CHILD SOCIAL MEDIA STARS ARE UNPROTECTED FROM EXPLOITATION IN THE UNITED STATES Jessica Pacht-Friedman I. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 362 II. BACKGROUND: HOW CHILD ACTING WENT FROM SILVER SCREEN TO DIGITAL SCREEN ............................................................................ 365 A. The Child Performer Exemption in Child Labor Laws........... 365 B. Who was Jackie Coogan? ....................................................... 366 C. The Recent Phenomena of Kidfluencers and Social Media Stars ........................................................................................ 368 III. THE PROBLEM: HOW THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO FAIL IN PROTECTING CHILDREN ACTORS, ON TV AND ONLINE................. 370 A. Current State's with Coogan Laws and Reality Star Void ..... 371 B. YouTube's Money-Making Model and Their Blindspot.......... 373 C. Sharenting and the Unwilling Child Celebrity................... 376 IV. PROPOSAL: EXPANDING THE COOGAN LAWS AND ADOPTING THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN.......................................................................... 380 A. Preventing Monetary Exploitation of Children with Trusts and Work Permits .......................................................................... 380 B. Regulations Protecting Child Social Media Stars on a State Level........................................................................................ 383 C. The French Model of Protecting Children against Exploitation and The Right to Be Forgotten ............................................... 384 V. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................ 387 t Jessica Friedman is a J.D. student from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She received her Bachelors of Arts in History, with a double minor in Anthropology and German from Rutgers University. She would like to thank her Note Advisor, Professor Julie Interdanato, for helping her throughout the Note process. She would also like to thank her family, her fianc6, Ian Grayson, and her friend Alex Davis for reading this over and over for editing purposes, and being there to support her throughout the process. 361