Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author. The Romantic conception of authorship, as a lone genius, creat...

My book is now available in paperback! www.routledge.com/Moral-Rights...

Kids crave connection. I’d rather they were on social media then talking to AI chatbots

Interesting! 🤔 I’ll look out for it!

I **ADORE** this little article from Green Bag by a federal judge explaining how he first coined a word and then worked to use it in an opinion so it could make it into Black's Law Dictionary greenbag.org/v13n2/v13n2_...

I’ve not heard this distinction so much in Australia but agree it’s a terrible term! My students mostly find patents straightforward if technical, but copyright has more conceptual difficulties!

Very postmodern!

Minds, brains, and science : Searle, John R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 107 pages ; 22 cm

While heavily critiqued there might be something in Searle’s Chinese room argument that you could use: archive.org/details/mind...

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

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Raygun’s claim against a parody musical may not stand up: here’s what the law says Raygun is unlikely to be able to claim intellectual property over her name, her persona and her dance moves.

The real story here is the lost argument to have ‘trade marks’ appear as two words. Appeals to the Constitution, the vibe and even the Act were not enough! Lovely working with @drmarieip.bsky.social and Associate Professor Vicki Huang for this piece: theconversation.com/rayguns-clai...

Excellent presentation and seeing the data together in the event space was really awe inspiring!

Day 1 Hacking Visual Culture @UTS. Setting the bar high for future art law conferences! Opening by @ijalexander.bsky.social, keynote from Prof Angie Abdilla, presentation by @culturedoug.bsky.social & @andeewallace.bsky.social & performance 'Artificial Symbosis' by Kurt Milkolajczyk & Anna Savery

Interesting! Are there any ethical dissenters to using AI? Do they all use the same tool? I’ve thought an AI client chatbot might also work in this space.

I experimented with client interviews this semester in IP law as a way of avoiding AI exam responses and it worked better than I thought. The ability to prod, question and clarify really helped evaluate the students understanding. Still not sure how to do this at scale but a fun, robust assessment!

Stern on Law, Literature, and the Legal Imagination @simon8.bsky.social /
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