Writing
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Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 Call for Papers
Roundtable Emory Law is proud to host the fifth annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence. The Roundtable will take place on April 09-10, 2026, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The…
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The Mouse and the Model: the Disney-OpenAI Deal
The other shoe has finally dropped. Today, December 11, 2025, OpenAI and Disney announced a partnership that essentially signals a marriage between generative AI and legacy media. Although some kind of deal…
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A handful of cherries does not make a sundae
Why content licensing cannot solve AI’s training-data problem I have just published an article as part of the ProMarket symposium for the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, “The False…
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025) A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major…
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Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 (save the date)
Emory Law is proud to host the 5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence on April 9-10, 2026, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence…
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Competition from AI music, Country Girls Make Do
As of October 2025, Suno and Udio are two text-to-music AI platforms that let users create full songs—including lyrics, vocals, and artwork—simply by entering text prompts. Some of this music is unappealing,…
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Skater Beagle and the Puzzle of AI Creativity
Generative AI poses a puzzle for copyright lawyers, and many others besides. How can a soulless mechanical process lead to the creation of new expression, seemingly out of nothing, or if not…
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Drafting Law School AI Policies
There are a lot of poorly thought through AI policies out there Law schools are realizing that they need student conduct policies that address generative AI. But after reviewing many of their…
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Piracy, Proxies, and Performance: Rethinking Books3’s Reported Gains
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. In Cloze Encounters: The Impact of…
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The Fourth Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2025 will be held next week at Emory Law and I am very excited by the amazing line-up of speakers and commentators we…