Day 2 of the Georgetown University's Music Sustainability Initiative's Music & AI Summit kicks off with discussions about provenance, attribution, cultural heritage, and dignity for musicians in the age of generative AI.
Thank you to Jalyce Mangum, Britt Lovejoy, Romel Murphy, and Amy Isbell for their contributions to the panel "Whose Song Is It Anyway? Ownership in the Age of AI" for an engaging and timely conversation about the intersection of copyright, rights of publicity, music, and generative AI.
We are kicking off our inaugural Music Sustainability Initiative Summit on the topic of Music & AI. It's standing-room only as Georgetown University Interim President Bob Groves gives the opening address!
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Romel Murphy (management for Xania Monet), Jeffrey Harleston (Universal Music Group), Jalyce Mangum (US Copyright Office), and Sy Damle (Latham & Watkins DC). I hope that you can join us!
The panel that I will co-moderate with @Isabella Zaidle will focus on all things legal relating to AI-assisted music, and is an absolutely star-studded line-up:
I am co-hosting an incredible event on AI & Music with Georgetown University's Music Sustainability Initiative on April 10-11, 2026. A full rundown of the event is available on the site (linked in the flyer below), and you can register (for free!) there as well.
Exciting news for us!
The #SupremeCourt majority adopted an argument from a friend-of-the-court brief by Georgetown Law professor @martylederman.bsky.social in a Tuesday order declining to allow the federal deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, writes @adamliptak.bsky.social in @nytimes.com.
I absolutely *loved* Professor @cathaysmith.bsky.social's engaging piece on Copyrighting Nature (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review) & think you will too. Check out my Jotwell review here!
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I propose a compulsory access license as one (imperfect) solution to lower barriers to entry for nascent AI firms while preserving incentives for tech developers and content producers.
I welcome comments.
Many thanks to Eli Orbach and Andy Shi for inviting me, and for making the piece stronger.
My contribution argues that exclusive data deals between the largest LLMs and the most powerful media outlets have the potential to make market concentration worse and to stifle market entry.
I have a new post at ProMarket that's part of a symposium on the competitive risks posed by AI content licensing agreements. Honored to be featured w/ friends and colleagues @marklemley.bsky.social, @jnvictor.bsky.social, @matthewsag.bsky.social & Christian Peukert.
www.promarket.org/2025/11/21/p...
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A call for papers and more information on registration will be available shortly, and I will post the link as soon as it's ready. If it wasn't enough to be in a beautiful and dynamic city, we are also lucky to have Imke Reimers from Cornell SC Johnson College of Business as our keynote speaker.
I have exciting news! The next Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Conference will be held this summer on July 6th & 7th at the University of Amsterdam.
A beautiful (& very cold!) day on a picturesque campus, with smart students, fantastic faculty, and insightful commentary. Thank you for having me, Jessica & Becky! It was fun to see my friend (and Dean) Neel Sukhatme too!
Had a wonderful time this presenting my research on access bottlenecks in the streaming and generative AI age this afternoon at the @University of Michigan Law School's IP workshop.
SESAC and GMR have joined ASCAP and BMI on Songview. Despite the excessive acronyms involved in this announcement, this is really big and important news for small(er) licensees.
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OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, reported to require copyright owners to opt out. I suggest this new state of affairs may reflect the company’s risk assessment given the fast pace of innovation and fierce competition in the space. Move fast and ask forgiveness! 🫣
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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My piece on selective enforcement in copyright & its lessons for enforcement discretion more broadly is now live at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social journal! I'll present some of the ideas from this project next month at NUS Faculty of Law in their "Access To Justice in the Creative Economy" symposium.
Hey - thanks for the listen!
I mean it’s the “law amount,” so…
BLINKS AT REALITY
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I think/worry that “ideas” is self-explanatory…
Thank you friend! (Also, sheesh! That’s a lot of accomplishing & whatnot!)