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I’m pleased to share that my article, “Copyright’s Nominal Humanism,” is forthcoming in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.
ssrn.com/abstract=53761…
Cc @UMichLaw, @umichLAMP
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Matt Blaszczyk
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Matt Blaszczyk
@mmblaszczyk
Research Fellow @UMichLaw | @umichLAMP
Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Haziran 2019
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Matt Blaszczyk@mmblaszczyk
@an_average_bear @CamdenHutchison I don't have the stats. It's not common but I think it's common enough not to be surprising. Examples of profs co-authoring with JD students: 1)scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_schola… 2) repository.law.umich.edu/law_econ_curre… 3) arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08673 4)columbialawreview.org/content/antico… 5)bu.edu/bulawreview/fi…
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@an_average_bear @CamdenHutchison I don't have the stats. It's not common but I think it's common enough not to be surprising. Examples of profs co-authoring with JD students:
1)scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_schola…
2) repository.law.umich.edu/law_econ_curre…
3) arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08673
4)columbialawreview.org/content/antico…
5)bu.edu/bulawreview/fi…
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@mmblaszczyk @CamdenHutchison I’m not sure I have any idea how often an American law student is in some way credited as a co-author as a student. It feels very rare. Usually it’s FN1 stuff. This is probably an artifact of clerking, etc. And also I wouldn’t much trust them in the first place.
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Matt Blaszczyk retweetledi
I think if a research assistant were to draft an article for you, and you then revised and "signed off" on it without crediting the assistant as a coauthor, you would be guilty of academic misconduct.
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr
An attorney writes to me about the mostly AI-written law review article he had accepted this spring, now forthcoming in the flagship law review of a Top 50 law school. A draft of the article is now up on SSRN. According to the attorney: " Last month I used Claude to assist in drafting a new article . . . . I drafted this article in about 15 hours. In 2022 I published an article of similar length that took around 150 hours." The attorney adds: "I used Claude the way I’d use a junior associate—as a first drafter, sounding board, and research assistant. Most of the article, including the entirety of the title, abstract, and intro, is mine from the keyboard up. And anything Claude contributed that made it to the final version is there because I reviewed it, agreed with it, and chose to sign my name to it. This is no different than how I’d review an associate’s draft and then take responsibility for the finished product." The attorney adds: "That first draft was by no means file ready, but it was better than what I would’ve received from the vast majority of BigLaw associates. I was blown away, and have since started my own appellate and litigation practice in an effort to replicate these productivity gains for client work." Your thoughts? I know the attorney's name, and the journal, and I have checked out the article, but I figured that, at least for now, I would hold that back.
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@an_average_bear @CamdenHutchison I’ve seen lots of examples where profs co-author with RAs…of course, not all do. IMO sometimes FN1 is fine (typical setting), sometimes it’s not enough (where RA drafts the piece; quite common in Europe), or even too much (if poor performance), depending on contributions.
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@CamdenHutchison I’m not sure every law prof formally acknowledges their RAs; or at least in a way that isn’t part of a general lump in FN1.
(They should as a practical matter; else the quality of RAs will drop.)
I mean, I’ve never seen a résumé that includes RA work as a writing sample.
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Matt Blaszczyk retweetledi
An attorney writes to me about the mostly AI-written law review article he had accepted this spring, now forthcoming in the flagship law review of a Top 50 law school. A draft of the article is now up on SSRN.
According to the attorney:
" Last month I used Claude to assist in drafting a new article . . . . I drafted this article in about 15 hours. In 2022 I published an article of similar length that took around 150 hours."
The attorney adds:
"I used Claude the way I’d use a junior associate—as a first drafter, sounding board, and research assistant. Most of the article, including the entirety of the title, abstract, and intro, is mine from the keyboard up. And anything Claude contributed that made it to the final version is there because I reviewed it, agreed with it, and chose to sign my name to it. This is no different than how I’d review an associate’s draft and then take responsibility for the finished product."
The attorney adds:
"That first draft was by no means file ready, but it was better than what I would’ve received from the vast majority of BigLaw associates. I was blown away, and have since started my own appellate and litigation practice in an effort to replicate these productivity gains for client work."
Your thoughts?
I know the attorney's name, and the journal, and I have checked out the article, but I figured that, at least for now, I would hold that back.
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I run a journal so niche that no one seems to be generating submissions with AI.
BUT I have received a paper with redline comments where the author admitted that they did not understand what they were writing abt.
When confronted, they proposed to just delete the comments, lol.
Enzo Rossi@enzoreds
I’m a journal editor. I’m confident people are submitting AI slop papers in the hope of a Sokal-style gotcha. Which may be fine, provided that the experiment is pre-registered, and ethics board-approved. Otherwise it will be worse than worthless, a waste of time we don’t have:
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🎉Excited to share a new paper w/ @Andrea_Tosato & @ProfYYadav1 on the #moneyness of #stablecoins, developing a public/private law framework for what makes something function as #money & applying it to assess #stablecoins before & after the #GENIUSAct, forthcoming @YaleLJournal
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@MrEwanMorrison Did you actually watch the video? What do you disagree with?
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Bernie Sanders - is so out of his depth in the field of AI that he takes all the hype at face value. He thinks a chatbot is like a real person and that it tells the truth. He is doing more harm than good.
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
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@Brad08414464 The infrastructure to enable this is called the Internet. Repositories: SSRN, Arxiv, Academia, Researchgate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint. Scholars can write reports, think tank/company publications, blogs, substacks, etc. The issue is quality, not putting it on the blockchain...
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Matt Blaszczyk retweetledi
A new edition of "On Liberty" names Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill as co-authors. [Countless students who've attributed the book to "Mills" nod approvingly]
dailynous.com/2026/03/19/on-…
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I'm finishing the second season for the first time and of course had to look up what resonance Twin Peaks has had in law (beyond the 2nd circuit case). Came across this gem of an article by David Fraser (Nottingham).
scholar.google.com/citations?view…
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@Ryan_Weller @RobertFreundLaw @TiredBambooLaw True. Tomorrow I’ll find out if it’s still possible to download Second Life and search for firms there. Stay tuned
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$80b. They could have funded massive expansions of just about any public transit system in the world and it would have bought them so much goodwill.
Instead, I'm at least an average consumer of tech and I've never in my entire life used or known anyone who used the Metaverse.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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@RobertFreundLaw @Ryan_Weller @TiredBambooLaw I wonder what's more bizarre, looking for a personal injury attorney (americanbar.org/groups/journal…) in a computer game or for a top German firm (gleisslutz.com/en/offices/loc…). Unfortunately, seems like we'll never find out. Oh well.
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@RobertFreundLaw @Ryan_Weller @TiredBambooLaw I wanted to ask them what the point of the game was, but unfortunately I couldn't send messages lol
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@RobertFreundLaw @Ryan_Weller @TiredBambooLaw I looked this up—quite a few firms announced office openings in the metaverse. I just downloaded Decentraland to check it out. There were 18 people online standing still talking about making money on crypto and taxes. Nothing (inc. map) worked & no firms were to be found. Oops
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@DarrinADurant @David_Gunkel @CopyrightOffice Maybe? For copyright, that’s irrelevant; it doesn’t address the key question.
In any case, the judge didn’t want to strike such a “humanist” chord
But, if I may: Is it this undiluted humanism which today forbids us from treating people instrumentally, as tools, means to an end?
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@David_Gunkel @mmblaszczyk @CopyrightOffice What if the “wrong side of history” (p.39) is siding with the idea that machines will be people so we may as well dilute humanism now?
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This essay from @mmblaszczyk is a must read for anyone (incorrectly) thinking that the US @CopyrightOffice is protecting human creators and creativity with their recent decisions against #AI authorship.
Matt Blaszczyk@mmblaszczyk
I’m pleased to share that my article, “Copyright’s Nominal Humanism,” is forthcoming in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. ssrn.com/abstract=53761… Cc @UMichLaw, @umichLAMP
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@EU_Commission I understand that this improves on the societas Europaea entity form, which barely anyone uses (and packages it in techy newspeak). But is this essentially like the proposal of extending societas to LLCs from 20 years ago? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_….
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Matt Blaszczyk retweetledi
@David_Gunkel @UMichLaw @umichLAMP Thanks so much, David! Please let me know what you think. I will have a follow-up paper soonish that takes on the relationship between copyright licensing and cultural criticism, which we have seen throughout recent media campaigns. It was a good excuse to reread Adorno!
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@mmblaszczyk @UMichLaw @umichLAMP This looks fantastic. I only had the time right now to read the abstract, but I am already looking forward to sitting down to give this a proper read. Thanks!
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I’m pleased to share that my article, “Copyright’s Nominal Humanism,” is forthcoming in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.
ssrn.com/abstract=53761…
Cc @UMichLaw, @umichLAMP
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