I had the most wonderful time at #ILWIP! It was my first time attending, and it was truly such a supportive conference. Being lucky enough to have the Alex Roberts in the room and liveblogging my talk was the cherry on top!
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Building at CornellTech in the morning with trees and a walkway outside
Building at CornellTech in the morning with trees in the foreground and other buildings in the background
Heading home from the 2026 Internet Law Works in Progress! My first time at @cornelltech.bsky.social. Thanks so much to @jtlg.bsky.social, @ericgoldman.bsky.social, and all who helped out! #ilwip
"the sovereign AI myth," @vivekdotca.bsky.social at #ilwip
people are talking about sovereign AI: is this marketing fluff? nationalistic balderdash? or something new & different?
a huge shift--and it's bad
artur pericles monteiro: "countervailing platform power"
*avoids neutrality-responsibility dilemma
*answers platform power w/ collective user power
*draws on he structural constitution (federalism) for a prototype
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"crisis machines" by @jmiers230.bsky.social at #ilwip
chatbot suicides are making headlines. while tragic, coverage is sensationalization & misses important context
the regulatory impulse: we must do something! not about the suicide but about the technology "causing" it
jonathan cedarbaum: does product liability offer a route around section 230? #ilwip
plaintiffs have brought a wave of product liability lawsuits against social media platforms in recent years--is that a plausible theory?
annie dorsen (w/ melodi dincer), preventing digital likeness abuse #ilwip
a dignity-based approach: current law fails to adequately address dignitary hrms stemming from nonconsensual digital replicas
who *should* be accountable when some non-negligible number of users who aren't supposed to be able to access a site can circumvent those controls and get access? who are the relevant actors w/in the ecosystem of age-assurance mandates & what liability should they bear?
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riana pfefferkorn, "advanced persistent teenagers" at #ilwip
tension between having a regime where half the US states have age assurance laws in place, but kids are very motivated to try to access various types of off-limits content & experiences
next in the #ilwip "families & children" panel, @irinamanta.bsky.social with "swipe left: how dating apps betray users and enable predators," book forthcoming--revolves around harms that come from dating app use & users, incl violent offenses, health harms, emotional harms, revenge porn, etc.
next at #ilwip: @mirandawei.bsky.social "combating AI-enabled child sexual abuse"
CSAM is a high-harm event that needs to be addressed, but proliferation of gen AI has made it easier to produce CSAM and potentially harder to combat
software isn't special--we've just been pretending it's special. let's learn lessons where we can from these other hundreds of disasters across fields of engineering and technology, consequences, & resulting changes. we're at an inflection point.
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up next, andrea matwyshyn: "homicideware"
to what extent do modern computer engineering disasters share key elements w/ engineering disasters from other fields/earlier eras? what can we learn from them?
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"behind the patent veil" w/ derek bambauer at #ilwip
given the patent office's call for use of more AI tools, bambauer & coauthors want to compare human examiners to AI & compare AI models to each other on things like prior art
only innovative new aesthetics and modes are provably unprotectable
if you use AI to get to something you could have done without AI, you can get the copyright protection; if you use it for something that's obviously AI, then you can't
--that's the paradox
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zachary cooper, "the innovation paradox"
the point of copyright is theoretically to stimulate innovation, but the more innovation we have the more confused copyright gets--when everyone can turn everything into everything else
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lafrance: if soundexchange cannot enforce through litigation, we have a serious problem
either the decision gets overturned or congress must create an express right
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the opinion treats soundexchange as a PRO like ascap, etc.--PROs only have nonexclusive rights, but lafrance argues soundexchange has a stronger claim to associational standing
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