thanks Tim! It was a great conference! @mollysvh.bsky.social @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social @jenniferurban.bsky.social and Peter Menell are great hosts.

AI Copyright Case Tracker Visit the post for more.

@edleeprof.bsky.social's AI/ copyright case tracker is awesome! chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/aicopyrightc...

@emorylaw.bsky.social

5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence is over. A fun time was had by all

Charlotte Tschider, Michael Froomkin, David Rubenstein, Yonathan Arbel, Yinn-Ching Lu, Nikola Datzov, Christina Lee, Deven Desai, Chinmayi Sharma, Jessica Roberts, Jillian Grennan, Lawrence Nodine, Salwa Hoque, and Andrew Miller.

The Roundtable features a phenomenal lineup of authors, commentators and participants, including: Katrina Geddes, Andres Sawicki, Gabriel Weil, Jonathan Iwry, Nathan Reitinger, Bryan Choi, Jacob Noti-Victor, Annemarie Bridy, ...

The 5th Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence at Emory University School of Law starts at Emory Law tomorrow. matthewsag.com/2026-legal-s...

I think all social media is dying, LinkedIn is the one Bright spot, and that just seems so weird

That is such a generous thing to say!

The image is a publicity poster for a keynote address featuring robots sitting in a circle with a small human child in the middle. It also features a QR code

Emory Law is hosting our 5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable in Artificial Intelligence, and I'm delivering this year's keynote: "How to Be a Good Cyborg—Understanding and Using Generative AI as a Legal Technology."

Emory Law School Launching An AI Study Program www.law360.com/pulse/georgi...

Not sure why papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... is still under review by @ssrn.bsky.social

I have set my email replies to passive aggressive.

High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence A claimant giving evidence in the High Court was fed answers through smart glasses he was wearing that were connected to his mobile phone, a judge has found.

If push comes to shove, we can always switch assessment to viva voce to protect it from AI.

Oh.

The claim that AI models are “just compression” misunderstands both compression and models. Memorization alone does not make GPT, Claude, or Gemini equivalent to MP3s of their training data. More here: matthewsag.com/the-fallacy-...

I wrote a short post about my new paper, Copyright's Jagged Frontier, forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, matthewsag.com/copyrights-j.... Download it now on SSRN (who still have it marked as under review!?) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It's interesting how much easier it is to set up LLM APIs for open AI and anthropic compared to Google. It's a reminder of just how massive Google is and how many different things it does.

It didn’t last very long

The Intellectual Property Institute's Evil Twin debate reminded us we can air our disagreements on IP policy in a friendly exchange. This year, Robert Brauneis & @matthewsag.bsky.social focused on AI at the WIPIP conference, hosted by @bulaw.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIK...

Evil Twin Debate Title

Evil Twin Debaters at table

Bob Brauneis speaking

Matt Sag speaking

A great Evil Twin Debate at WIPIP: Bob Brauneis & @matthewsag.bsky.social on “Larceny or Liberation: Is AI’s Non-Expressive Use Unfair To Humans?” They killed it -- really substantive and really funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIK... #richmondlaw #eviltwindebate

I’m no longer behind on any commitments (I can remember). It’s a strange feeling…

the copyright boundary for generative AI will be “jagged” rather than smooth because Memorization inside AI models is complex, and its legal implications depend on the interaction of
three distinct doctrines—the substantial similarity test, the fair use defense, and secondary liability rules.

#WIPIP2026 is the right hashtag

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Copyright's Jagged Frontier. Presented today at #WIPIP.

I have a lot of thoughts on this, and if you look on SSRN you will see something I wrote with your exact question in mind.

This is terrible on a human level, but people who don't use Dropbox are insane. (Or would that not have helped for some reason?)

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Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 Call for Papers (details on the website, submit via the google form). Deadline for submission is February 15, 2026

They picked 13 books they thought were most likely to have been memorized and found that they were able to get various models to give them verbatim or near-verbatim reproductions of these 13 books or decent chunks thereof. Impressive paper, but 13 books should not rock your world.

I also listen to academic things while running.