Kristelia García
@kristelia.bsky.social
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Law professor @ Georgetown Law
I absolutely *loved* Professor
@cathaysmith.bsky.social
's engaging piece on Copyrighting Nature (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review) & think you will too. Check out my Jotwell review here!
ip.jotwell.com/copyright-fo...
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Copyright for Dummies Humans - Intellectual Property
Cathay Y. N. Smith, Copyrighting Nature, 79 Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (May 22, 2025).Kristelia GarcíaFrom the use of copyright to combat revenge porn, to protecting slavis...
https://ip.jotwell.com/copyright-for-dummies-humans/?_gl=1*10xdyyx*_ga*NDM0NzQ3NzExLjE3NjYwMDA3MzI.*_ga_BXXRV43J3Z*czE3NjYwMDA3MzIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NjYwMDA3MzIkajYwJGwwJGgw
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I have a new post at ProMarket that's part of a symposium on the competitive risks posed by AI content licensing agreements. Honored to be featured w/ friends and colleagues
@marklemley.bsky.social
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@jnvictor.bsky.social
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@matthewsag.bsky.social
& Christian Peukert.
www.promarket.org/2025/11/21/p...
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Preventing AI Oligopoly and Digital Enclosure Via Compulsory Access - ProMarket
The largest artificial intelligence firms are able to afford access to quality data from content producers like the New York Times, while smaller startups are being left out. This dynamic risks concen...
https://www.promarket.org/2025/11/21/preventing-ai-oligopoly-and-digital-enclosure-via-compulsory-access/
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I have exciting news! The next Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Conference will be held this summer on July 6th & 7th at the University of Amsterdam.
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Had a wonderful time this presenting my research on access bottlenecks in the streaming and generative AI age this afternoon at the @University of Michigan Law School's IP workshop.
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SESAC and GMR have joined ASCAP and BMI on Songview. Despite the excessive acronyms involved in this announcement, this is really big and important news for small(er) licensees.
songview.com
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Songview
Songview was developed by ASCAP and BMI, the nation’s two largest Performance Rights Organizations, to provide music users with the first comprehensive, reliable and consistent data on songwri...
https://songview.com/
3 months ago
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OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, reported to require copyright owners to opt out. I suggest this new state of affairs may reflect the company’s risk assessment given the fast pace of innovation and fierce competition in the space. Move fast and ask forgiveness! 🫣
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a
3 months ago
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My piece on selective enforcement in copyright & its lessons for enforcement discretion more broadly is now live at
@georgetownlaw.bsky.social
journal! I'll present some of the ideas from this project next month at NUS Faculty of Law in their "Access To Justice in the Creative Economy" symposium.
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Selective Enforcement
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/in-print/volume-113/volume-113-issue-5-may-2025/selective-enforcement/
6 months ago
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BLINKS AT REALITY
9 months ago
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Law prof friends - do you keep the "Presentation" and "Media" sections of your CV up to date? (If you have those sections at all?) It's a lot, how do you keep up with it?
9 months ago
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Headed to Nashville to join
@jpfishman.bsky.social
and others for Vanderbilt’s 2025 Music Law Summit, where I’ll talk about streaming fraud in all of its various iterations.
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Music Law Summit - Vanderbilt Law School
Vanderbilt Law is excited to host Music Law and Generative AI: the 2024 Music law Summit on April 4, 2024.
https://law.vanderbilt.edu/music-law-summit/
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I like to think that our work speaks for itself, but in this acutely challenging time, it is more important than ever to be clear where we stand: firmly and unequivocally on the side of the rule of law. I am proud of my partners and our clients for choosing right over might.
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Lex Lumina’s Statement on the President’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms — Lex Lumina PLLC
The President’s recent attacks on lawyers and law firms for daring to have represented the President’s personal enemies or causes that he and his supporters dislike are dangerous threats to the rule o...
https://www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex-luminas-statement-on-the-presidents-executive-orders-targeting-law-firms?fbclid=IwY2xjawJS4U5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQypn20T_2Htc6b8amfbdLSxr_Os0iIA9pEDvrYhD5HtNeybYdJhxuJafQ_aem_Sp-GPUcm-kjTJU8PxRBCQQ
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A heartening response in a surreal time.
#saxahoya
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Looking forward to this!
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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I'm looking forward to speaking tomorrow about the tension invoked by copyright, and experienced by artists, at a symposium on Art Law hosted by the Maryland Law Review. As a special treat, we get to tour the 1807 Galleries at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)!
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Symposium — Maryland Law Review
https://www.marylandlawreview.org/symposium
10 months ago
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Anyone else "suddenly" getting a ton of text spam offering scam loans and mortgage rates etc. since DOGE began accessing all of our info?
10 months ago
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"...in her decision on Wednesday, Judge Analisa Torres said that federal royalty rate rules clearly allowed Spotify to legally claim the lower rate, rejecting MLC’s argument that the company was not actually offering a “bundle” of services."
www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-...
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Spotify Beats MLC Audiobook Lawsuit After Judge Calls Federal Royalty Rules ‘Unambiguous’
Spotify won a ruling dismissing the Mechanical Licensing Collective's lawsuit alleging the streamer illegally cut royalty rates by adding audiobooks.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-beats-mlc-audiobook-lawsuit-federal-royalty-rules/
11 months ago
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reposted by
Kristelia García
Georgetown Law
11 months ago
The
#GeorgetownLaw
community gathered on Jan. 15 to celebrate the achievements of five
#faculty
members who were awarded named professorships:
@bdgesq.bsky.social
,
@kristelia.bsky.social
, Maria Glover, Urska Velikonja and
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
. Congrats, Professors! Read more:
bit.ly/4akEC1c
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reposted by
Kristelia García
CREATe
11 months ago
We recently had the pleasure of hosting
@kristelia.bsky.social
in Glasgow for a few weeks! During her time with us, she contributed to workshops with colleagues and students, and delivered an inspiring public lecture to a packed room 🎤 Check out her reflections 👉
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...
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This afternoon I was installed as the inaugural Leo George Professor of Communications, Entertainment, and New Media. It was a lovely ceremony, made even better by the presence of my family and so many supportive community members.
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I look forward to workshopping a new project on copyright, access, and competition at Boston University School of Law's IP Workshop. Thank you to Michael Meurer for the invitation, and excited to see
@jessicasilbey.bsky.social
and Stacey Dogan too!
about 1 year ago
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TODAY! I am looking forward to discussing my research into the rise in vertical integration between content producers and content distributors, and the challenges this presents for copyright law.
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CREATe Public Lecture by Kristelia García: Refusals to License and other Vertical Mischief in Copyright – CREATe
https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/10/14/create-public-lecture-by-kristelia-garcia-refusals-to-license-and-other-vertical-mischief-in-copyright/
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