Every contributor gets to add a song to my London Marathon Spotify Playlist! If you donate for this cause, you can let me know what song I should add to my London Marathon Spotify Playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/61Cwp…

Reminder: The Scholarly Communication + Information Policy office at UC Berkeley Library has three open positions. We are still accepting job applications for the next few weeks. Details in the thread below.

New year, new map of AI copyright lawsuits! All 38 of them. For PDF with links to each docket, visit here: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/01/03/upd…

Fabulous work by Tonja Jacobi and her Emory Law students. It's a great book and its free! If you teach Con Crim Pro, your students will thank you for switching!

#ICYMI: Check out our recent blog post about how the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) can help lighten the federal court docket through referrals of copyright cases filed in federal court to the CCB: blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2024…

I wonder if the US Copyright Office will take its cues from the new EO on AI "It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security." whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Legal academics interested in #AI, consider submitting for the Legal Scholars Roundtable on AI (Apr 10-11). Submit by February 17 for consideration! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1s9…

matthewsag.com/thomson-reuter… My initial thoughts on today’s summary judgment ruling in the Ross intelligence case.

Very interesting amici brief supporting Meta's fair use argument from IP Profs Rebecca Tushnet, Matthew Sag, Jessica Sibley and Zahr Said. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/upl…

I'm running the London Marathon 3 weeks! You can add a song to my Spotify Marathon playlist by donating any amount to a very worthy cause (2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/matthew-sag). I am 87% of the way to my fundraising goal, but I really want to exceed it and get to at least 3,000 GBP.

Very excited for the Fourth Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence next week! matthewsag.com/emory-law-ai-r…

I just published Anthropic’s multi-billion dollar loss in Bartz v. Anthropic is really a win (for AI) medium.com/p/anthropics-m…

Are you confused about the fair use decisions in Anthropic and Meta cases that came out this week? Created a Table to highlight the differences and agreement. 2 big differences: (1) pirated books treatment and (2) new theory of copyright market dilution. Other parts more aligned

Is the EU really the "rights-based" leader in AI regulation? In "The Illusory Normativity of Rights-Based AI Regulation," Yiyang Mei and I argue that this widely accepted assumption fundamentally misunderstands how EU AI regulation actually works. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A new NBER working paper by Stella Jia and Abhishek Nagaraj makes some stunning claims about the effects of pirated book corpora on large-language-model (LLM) performance. I have my doubts. matthewsag.com/piracy-proxies… #AI #Copyright #books3

51 copyright lawsuits v AI companies in 2.5 years. 3 decisions on fair use, 2 for and 1 against in district court. Still a long way to go. No more fair use decisions likely possible until Spring 2026. Thomson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence is 1st on appeal. Kadrey maybe 2d in 2026

matthewsag.com/drafting-law-s… This might be helpful.

Why can't you copyright an AI-generated image that looks creative? My latest explores the "Skater Beagle" puzzle - how generative AI creates genuinely new works from latent space, not remix, but still lacks the human authorship copyright requires. matthewsag.com/skater-beagle-…

Interesting article: Harvey Is Playing A Different Game - Is It Winning? directory.lawnext.com/library/harvey… via @LawNext I don't know anyone who has actually used Harvey. I'd love to hear from you if you do. Is it good? Is it better than ChatGPT? What is it useful for?

My new post on competition from AI music and what it means matthewsag.com/competition-fr…