Writing
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I am running the 2019 Chicago Marathon in honor of my sister Rebecca who died of pancreatic cancer late last year. Rebecca’s death is incredibly sad, but her life is worth celebrating.…
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Text mining, analysis, and forecasting Supreme Court oral argument
Chicago LegalTech & Innovation 11-1-2018 Tonja Jacobi and I will be presenting to the #LegalTech & Innovation Talks at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law this afternoon. We are going to talk about ScotusOA…
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Slides for my Global Congress 2018 presentation on text data mining
Matthew Sag, TDM (Global Congress September 2018) Posted here mostly because my usb stick is not working.
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IPSC 2018 Slides from my talk on Legal Infrastructure for Text Data Mining
I presented my working paper on the legal infrastructure for text data mining at IPSC yesterday and I promised to post my slides. Here it is: Public, Matthew Sag, Legal Infrastructure for TDM…
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Neglect, but only of my website
I have not posted here in a long time, but I am still alive. Partly I have been busy some long term projects and some things that don’t fit the copyright and…
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NAFTA must include fair use commitments
I joined with over seventy international copyright law experts today in calling for NAFTA and other trade negotiators to support a set of balanced copyright principles. Policies like fair use, online safe…
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An all new election law course at Loyola Law Chicago in 2018
Election Law Spring 2018 (Thursday 4pm – 6pm) In an era of computer-aided gerrymandering, foreign interference in our elections, increasingly unchecked campaign finance, systematic voter suppression, and (as yet unsupported) assertions of voter…
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Text Mining, Non-Expressive Use and the Technological Advantage of Fair Use
On March 29, 2017, I attended a fantastic conference on “Globalizing Fair Use: Exploring the Diffusion of General, Open and Flexible Exceptions in Copyright Law” hosted by American University Washington College of…
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Biotech and IP Workshop at Loyola Law Chicago Today
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is hosting a Faculty Workshop on Biotech and IP today, organized by Prof. Cynthia Ho. Topics include: The Intellectual Property of Ebola and Zika: Lessons for…
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The DMCA Safe Harbors With Brief Annotations of Important Cases
I made an annotated version of Section 512 of the Copyright Act — the DMCA Internet Safe Harbors — for my Copyright Law class and I thought that others might find it…