I’m excited to be at Emory @emorylaw.bsky.social today to give a faculty workshop on new work with Barton Beebe and Stein on trademark law and images, with empirical and computational analysis 🖼️™️

New scholarship alert: In our new paper--STRATEGIC DELEGATION OF MORAL DECISIONS TO AI--Stephan Tontrup and I show experimentally that people consider AI to be an entity capable of bearing moral responsibility, and also ... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congratulations to @jeannefromer.bsky.social for being named Vice Dean of University Partnerships at NYU Law! Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well

My clinic just filed a brief on this very problem, earlier this month! Thread below! Trade secrecy—or at least the threat of trade secrecy claims—thwart a large and growing swathe of regulation, public communication, and corporate accountability. bsky.app/profile/cmor...

Today's trade secrecy trouble: "There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Thrilled for the next 2 days with @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center, exploring the consumer across IP, antitrust, and tech law, including sustainability, the consumer scientist, IP rights as signal to consumers, AI, fair use, and competition www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...

Another open access win: The GLAM-E Lab worked with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales to bring thousands of public domain images from their collection online with their new image platform www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨 An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets. A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation! 🧵 1/

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If you missed our big event on Sep. 25—"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"—fear not! @nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos! Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...

I shared NEW DATA about what licenses people have used for @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified hardware since 2016 michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/10...

Pam Samuelson, Matt Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, Ed Lee, and I filed an amicus in Thomson v. Ross. We urged the court of appeals to reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment to Thomson, and to hold that use of headnotes in AI training is fair use. drive.google.com/file/d/1zUot...

Check out the new NYT op-doc from Knowing Machines' @katecrawford.bsky.social on the environmental impact of AI: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

Great Jotwell post by @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social on Michael Goodyear's article "Common-Law Notice and Takedown" ip.jotwell.com/the-future-o...

So glad to welcome my former student back to NYU as a faculty member. Circle of life.

Andrew Weissman and I discussed the TikTok ban, and, in particular, how Trump would leverage it to do many bad things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7O...

Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Public pharma event next week! Thurs Sep 25, 5:30! IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom! A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!

New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Was it even a question that I needed to buy this? I'm excited to build this for my office and have a working chocolate waterfall and mini Oompa-Loompas (and maybe write a 3rd piece of scholarship on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? 🤔First 2 pieces are linked below) www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

Consumers are all over the law: consumer welfare in antitrust, consumer confusion in TM, consumer understanding of art in copyright. But what is The Consumer, really? On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in..... www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...

Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org! My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social! "Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York" 5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org! Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!

I kept needing it, so I wrote a very quick guide to picking an open source hardware license (you know, if you don't feel like actually reading the licenses, which is totally cool): michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...

Thanks to @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social @design-law.bsky.social and friends for organizing this IP Summer Camp event and for helpful and constructive feedback on my project with @cjsprigman.bsky.social on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents"

HUGE congratulations to all of the winners of this year's @wnyc.org Public Song Project (w/ judging from EC'ers @littlewow.online & @michaelweinberg.org) www.wnyc.org/story/2025-p...

We don't own our ebooks!! I didn't really know this, or fully understand its implications, until I was radicalized by @nyuengelberg.org. I highly recommend checking out their report "The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy." www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-...

Looking forward to continuing our Chicago-Kent IP Summer Camp series today with Jeanne Fromer & Christopher Sprigman on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents" (moderated by yours truly).

Thanks to @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social for having me on to talk about the GLAM-E Lab report on AI bots taking down online cultural heritage collections! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Do you care about institutional contracts and norm setting? Have you negotiated contracts on behalf of clients? Do you want to join a library organization that's taking a new approach to digital rights advocacy? (And having a lot of fun doing it?!) Apply! www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...

@shiraovide.bsky.social dives deeper into AI scraper bots disrupting websites, including the striking (to me) number that 13 million AI bot visits in a month translated into a whole 600 human visitors www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Enjoying ISHTIP’s 16th annual workshop in Madrid, this year on intellectual property and capitalism, where I’ll be talking about Vinicius Bogea Camara’s provocative paper on “Indiffernce and Saturarion: The Dilemma of Brands in Search or a Consumer.” Some highlights so far ishtip.org/wp-content/u...

Thanks to @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for talking to me about the new GLAM-E Lab / @nyuengelberg.org report on the bots swarming online collections to build AI training datasets scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/23/a...

Are AI bots knocking cultural heritage offline? After talking to dozens of GLAM institutions over the past few months, the answer in our new GLAM-E Lab report seems to be “yes” www.glamelab.org/products/are...

Just where did ebooks come from? Learn that and more in A Podcast About Ebooks from Library Futures! The trailer is out now! Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode (or wait till the end of the month to binge the whole thing). www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...

This Friday OCEAN is hosting a workshop for the GLAM-E Lab's Open GLAM Toolkit. If you have been looking for an excuse to take a deep dive into how your institution can go open, you aren't going to get a better opportunity than this. www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

Excited to be in Santiago at Universidad de Chile for the XXVIII Conferencia Anual de ALACDE on law and economics, where I am speaking about my empirical work on trademark law with Barton Beebe and Stein asociacionalacde.org/alacde-xxviii/

I'm featured in a new Revisionist History podcast episode on Nooks & Crannies (and protecting recipes via trade secret) open.spotify.com/episode/1o9T...

CLINICAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIP!! Work with @jasonschultz.bsky.social's Tech Law & Policy Clinic AND @cmorten.bsky.social's NEW Science, Health & Info Clinic here at NYU as the new Clinical Teaching Fellow apply.interfolio.com/167514 #ReasonableUseOfAllCapsBecauseThisIsExciting

Huge congratulations to 2025 IP Hall of Fame inductee (and Engelberg Center Co-Director) Rochelle Dreyfuss! www.iam-media.com/article/ip-h...

Congrats to our fellow @nyuengelberg.org project, the great GLAM-E Lab!

The GLAM-E Lab's work to help GLAM institutions build their open access programs just won the GW4 Open Research Prize! gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-ope... The Lab works directly with GLAM institutions to resolve legal issues, and then standardizes those lessons into turn-key documents: www.glamelab.org

I'm thrilled to announce that Xiyin Tang's and my article, Antitrust Regulation of Copyright Markets, has won the 2025 Antitrust Writing Award in the intellectual property category. I hope you'll give it a read! awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/20...

this is a great summary of the diluting effect of chatgpt's new image generation capabilities on the distinctive aesthetic of beloved Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli #AI #StudioGhibli #ChatGPT www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to...