hey i'm getting REALLY excited about this thursday's panel on influencer law. it turns out i have been fixated on this topic for a while, with 3 articles published & one more in progress. there's just so much going on in this space.

I will be presenting my recent work on AI Influencers as part of a wonderful panel next week on "Influencer Law" at Northeastern with @lexlanham.bsky.social, @jeannefromer.bsky.social and moderated by @staceylantagne.bsky.social. Would love to see Boston friends law.northeastern.edu/event/influe...

I am excited to share that my latest article, "AI Influencers and a Right of Publicity" has been published in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Working on admission to SCOTUS bar. Things I didn't know before this process: 1) to get certificate of good standing from CA S Ct. I sent them $1 bill in the mail; 2) unless you opt into "alternative certificate" the SCOTUS admission certificate says "in the year of our Lord, two thousand..."

I have written many many letters of recommendation. I have never ever described a student's physical appearance in a letter of recommendation, and could never imagine a circumstance when doing so would be appropriate regardless of audience.

My favorite headlines from the Grammys this weekends are the ones pointing out that the Dalai Lama beat Justice Katanji Brown Jackson for a Grammy. I mean if you have to lose, losing to the Dalai Lama is hard to be too mad about.

As the granddaughter of one of those Auschwitz survivors thank you for telling some of their stories. My grandmother is no longer here to tell her story, but her 3 children, 10 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren are her living legacy.

SCOTUS granted cert in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a case at the intersection of privacy & entertainment law. Issue is whether the Video Privacy Protection Act's definition of "consumer" covering "goods or services from a video tape service provider" means all goods or services or only audiovisual

This was a wonderful and very productive experience when I did it many years ago. Also I almost didn't submit because I felt I had no chance, and then I got it. So don't count yourself out.

In NOLA for AALS. Hope to see old friends and colleagues and meet new folks. Busy day tomorrow with Art Law section events, senior commentator on an IP paper and then presenting on a panel. Hope to see folks around.

Join EFF as a legal intern and fight for privacy, human rights, and freedoms! Your work can make a real difference. The deadline to apply is November 15! www.eff.org/about/oppor...

Are you OK with this? "They’re Watching You: How Government Spyware Is Silently Erasing Your Privacy and Freedom" open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

As civil rights groups warned 7 years ago.

I've always loved Adam Ladd's video where his 5 year old gives takes on various TM. It illustrates for IP Survey class how marketing, etc. helps consumers make required associations. Today showed images in the video to my 3 year old. My favorite was the Starbucks logo. He said Statue of Liberty

My grandmother survived Auschwitz, and nearly everyone in her family was systematically and intentionally killed in the gas chambers including her many young siblings. Pardon me if I don't find texts about gas chambers and Hitler to be merely "edgy, offensive jokes" or just "what kids do."

People celebrating the extrajudicial execution of persons who, even if guilty of the crime they are accused of, would not be convicted of a capital offense... it is a perversion of any sense of law.

Wow, big week for Remedies professors like me. First, there is the fascinating set of remedies in the Google antitrust trial that seem far more lenient on Google than many expected. And now a CA jury has awarded $425 million in damages, but refused punitives in the Google privacy lawsuit

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Pepperdine Law is hiring and considering scholars at all levels: entry level, untenured lateral, tenured lateral, and 2 chair positions. I'll share posts for each one. I'm on the hiring committee and chairing the lateral hiring subcommittee so feel free to reach out to me with questions.

Having a great time back in Chicago geeking out at #IPSC . I often spend time at the Copyright breakout session, but this year I've invaded Trademark sessions. Fun times over here! Enjoyed sharing my very very early project "Rethinking Use of Trademarks in Art" and grateful for helpful feedback.

rosenblatt: rogers was in some ways a response to debbie does dallas, where nfu's "need to use" standard didn't save the use in an expressive work so eliminating rogers sends us back to debbie does dallas-land (poor debbie) need ability to 12(b)(16) these questions

maybe we're ok b/c nominative fair use can do a lot of work many of the rogers cases could have been decided on nominative fair use (but what about empire? honey badger? sylvanian drama?) also: what nfu has that rogers doesn't is requirement that you don't use more than necessary

victoria schwartz: rethinking use of trademarks in art what do we do with the concurrence in jack daniel's that says "what if rogers isn't even good law at all"? if we lose rogers, what do we have? #ipsc2025

Also, I told myself that I would join this platform ONLY if I could get an article done this summer after I left an alternative platform a couple years back because it was too toxic. Article submitted and this is my reward. Looking forward to connecting with folks on here.

It has been over 10 years since I submitted a law review article for the Fall cycle. Despite its rumored decline, I decided to try since I managed to finish a draft of "AI Influencers and A Right of Publicity" in time. For the first time I got some positive news before an auto-ding!

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers. Some additional thoughts 🧵 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Ninth Circuit holds Rogers test applies to Lanham Act claim in Hara v Netflix dispute involving non-source-identifying use of person’s image in animated show: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... For info about the dispute see: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d... & goldiplaw.com/law-360-netf...