Are Unpaid Internships in Sport Legal?

By Dr. Susan Brown Foster   Newsweek called it “The Great American Internship Swindle” (Chatzky, 2011). The Daily Journal of Commerce describes it as “Cheap Labor” (Finnemore, 2011). New York Times Magazine dubbed it a “rip-off” (Kaminer, 2012). Unpaid internships have been receiving a great deal of press since the federal government issued Fact Sheet #71 in April, 2010. What most organizations do not realize, the information in this Fact Sheet is not new. No new law was cre