Recap of the 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference - Goldman's Observations On March 8, 2025, the High Tech Law Institute hosted the 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress at Santa Clara University. A short recap: Reconvening After a 6-Year Hiatus. The conference series started ...

Blog Post: Recap of the 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference

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Scholars Who Play Together Stay Together! After presentations, the #SantaClaraLaw Internet Law Works-in-Progress turns to game night. This year’s game includes a Zentangle tutorial. To help with copyright registrations, we gave the artists A(i)ttestations their work was #AI-free. #InternetLawWIP25

A Truly Global Event! 🌍 Participants traveled from all over the country and the world to present at Santa Clara Law's Internet Law Works-in-Progress. 16 US states/districts and 5 continents are represented. #InternetLawWIP25 #HTLI #SantaClaraLaw

15 Years in the Making! Santa Clara Law hosted the first Internet Law Works-in-Progress event in 2011 and most recently in 2019. It’s wonderful to have it back after a 6-year hiatus due to the COVID shutdown. #InternetLawWIP25 #SantaClaraLaw #HTLI

Here at Santa Clara School of Law's beautiful campus to present my latest article, Algorithmic Death-Worlds: Sovereignty in the Technological Singularity.
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The 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference is officially underway at Santa Clara University School of Law! The event began with opening remarks by Dean Michael Kaufman and Prof. Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman.bsky.social), Co-Director of SCU High Tech Law Institute. #InternetLawWIP25

"There is no meaningful distinction between 'machine speech' and 'human speech.'"

Bold paper by Prof. Jess Miers.

I disagree. Consider a review. If it is AI generated it doesn't tell you about lived experience with the product. Or a love letter. The AI doesn't love you. #internetlawwip25

Attention, Starfleet legal officers and esteemed scholars of cyberspace! Welcome to the 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference, where we boldly go where no Internet law conference has gone before! The digital frontier is a chaotic Neutral Zone—AI is evolving faster than Data on an espresso binge, tech giants are amassing power like the Borg, and cybersecurity threats are multiplying like tribbles. The legal framework? Let’s just say we’re one bad ruling away from a full-scale temporal paradox. This is a true Kobayashi Maru—no easy answers, just high-stakes dilemmas. Will we regulate or be assimilated? Will digital governance bring balance to the Federation, or are we hurtling toward a Ferengi marketplace of unchecked capitalism? Some of you are Kirks—breaking the rules to get results. Some are Spocks—insisting on logic. And some of you are definitely Q—here to stir up chaos just for fun. But one thing is clear: resistance to this discussion is futile! So, set phasers to engage, prepare for warp-speed discourse, and let’s make this the most illogical conference to miss. Helm, set course for the first panel. Engage!

I asked ChatGPT write the introductory remarks for the 2025 Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference, but Star Trek-style 🖖 @scuhtli.bsky.social #InternetLawWIP25

#internetlawwip25 Great group of thinkers, great ideas. Conversation in community is the only way we will find solutions.

People flew here from all over the world to talk in person: they know in their bones that online conversation has been flooded with non-human voices.

@ericgoldman.bsky.social kicking us off! #InternetlawWIP25