Watching 2 Fast 2 Furious on the airplane & reflecting that @maybell.bsky.social would be impressed by all the efficient zipper merging.

I couldn’t be more delighted to announce that I’ve accepted an offer to join the faculty of Tulane Law School. law.tulane.edu/news/tulane-...

We went to the wine bar at Emeril’s after this year’s Tulane Research and Achievement Awards. I figure we were all dressed up. Drinks and food were incredible. I love that they’re using these ancient plates.

Lol. Good luck asserting a copyright claim in the language of a brief, let alone the argument. She should know that fee shifting works both ways. www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-d...

Great to see how @brianlfrye.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social helping clarify #IPLaw issues around creating #LegalAi for #LegalResearch. ‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters www.lawnext.com/2025/11/no-o...

I just posted Ipse Dixit #822, featuring Nikola Datzov of North Dakota Law discussing his article "AI Jurisprudence: Toward Automated Justice" forthcoming in the Northwestern Journal of Technology & IP. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and please feel free to plagiarize them.

I just posted Ipse Dixit #821, featuring Mark Blankenship of St. Thomas Law discussing his article "Reconsidering the 'Aesthetic Nondiscrimination' Doctrine in American Copyright Law." shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

I’m really struggling to see the problem here. Unless you’re a therapist, I guess.

It’s like these people have never heard of qualified & absolute immunity.

Our host, @rabble.nz, joined @mmasnick.bsky.social on the Techdirt podcast to talk about the history and future of decentralized social media. Listen to “An Insider’s View Of Decentralized Social Media” on @techdirt.com, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.techdirt.com/2025/10/21/t...

Yo! law.tulane.edu/news/profess...

So proud of my amazing wife!

There’s no obligation to be a bullshitter. Also, people are mad about AI because they’re sad it shows they are pathetic. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Breakfast of champions with @brianlfrye.bsky.social

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I, too, would like to get back to interviewing folks, though not at the same breakneck volume that @brianlfrye.bsky.social is able to work at. HMU, especially if you're writing in crim, gender and sexuality, and the intersection of law and geography!

Kvelling for my amazing wife!

Why the hell would anyone buy something like this?

I’d like to record some new Ipse Dixit episodes, what articles or books would you like to hear me discuss? Self-nominations welcome.

Swapped out the radio in my Tacoma. Easier than I expected!

It’s disappointing to see people applaud the use of copyright to suppress speech they disapprove.

My IP exams are always 3x1000 word take-home research memos. I encourage students to use their exam answers as writing samples. This week, one of them told me he got a job b/c everyone else used a 1L LRW brief & the partner was impressed to see real writing. Cool!

Peak Blueskyism.

Real activists post threads on Bluesky.com.

Why not.

An observation: When I worked at S&C, the best part of the job was that they let me do as much pro bono worked as I liked & valued it. If you aren’t doing pro bono work, you should consider it. There’s no obligation, except for the one you feel.

I agree! But academic plagiarism norms say otherwise. That is one of the reasons they are bad.

An observation: I love it when people ask me, “Would you do this crazy thing?!” I’ve usually already done it.

Technology that takes something difficult & expensive & makes it easy & cheap seems like a pretty simple value proposition to me.

Do I know an Illinois-barred attorney who can help me protect an artist from a BS defamation claim? Suggestions much appreciated.

Lawyers plagiarizing briefs. Lawyers plagiarizing reply briefs. Lawyers asking junior associates to analyze briefs. Judges asking their clerks to compare brief & draft opinions. Same as it ever was. 😔

This is amazing. For shame, Bluebook editors! Rafi is right & you should adopt his suggestion.

Dessing for the job I want.

I just posted the final version of "Buribunkean Copyright: The Obligation to Record," which I co-authored with Barrett Block & published in the Caapital University Law Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A glimpse of something @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I are working on

@brianlfrye.bsky.social found a butcher cover!

For better or worse, the First Amendment is for assholes, or it’s for no one. Freedom of respectful speech is no free speech at all.

@brianlfrye.bsky.social and I will be celebrating it in two days!!!

Headed to @MaybellRomero’s first Bastard Film Encounter tonight!

Marmite. By the spoon.

I just posted to @ssrn an essay titled Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

True. But it’s our fault, or at we least we create the conditions that maintain the norm. A story: In my seminar, I assign Fred Rodell’s 1936 essay “Goodbye to Law Reviews.” The students love it. “So true! All the same problems still exist today! Too long! Too many footnotes!”

Interesting opinion from the CD Ca holding that BAYC NFTs aren’t securities, finding that Ps didn’t show an investment of money or a common enterprise, but did show reliance on the efforts of others. Right outcome, but the analysis is IMO pretty weak. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

The only thing worse than talking about the thing you want me to be talking about is not talking about the thing you want me to be talking about. 😔

I just posted Ipse Dixit #830, featuring John Tehranian of Southwestern Law discussing his new book "The Secret Life of Copyright Intellectual Property and Inequality in the Age of AI" from @universitypress.cambridge.org. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

I just posted @IpseDixitPod #829, featuring Stephen Cicirelli of Saint Peter's University discussing philosophy, literature, and plagiarism. Check it out! shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

1/ The FCC has no authority to police content for bias or balance. We—and more than seventy other organizations and scholars—warned FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Yesterday, I filed an amicus brief with @brianlfrye.bsky.social and Matt Blaszczyk in support of ROSS Intelligence. Thank you to my Research Assistants Matthew Bedell and Kerry Smith (@kerry95.bsky.social) for all of their research support for this project. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....