Kristelia García

Romel Murphy (management for Xania Monet), Jeffrey Harleston (Universal Music Group), Jalyce Mangum (US Copyright Office), and Sy Damle (Latham & Watkins DC). I hope that you can join us!

The panel that I will co-moderate with @Isabella Zaidle will focus on all things legal relating to AI-assisted music, and is an absolutely star-studded line-up:

I am co-hosting an incredible event on AI & Music with Georgetown University's Music Sustainability Initiative on April 10-11, 2026. A full rundown of the event is available on the site (linked in the flyer below), and you can register (for free!) there as well.

Exciting news for us!

How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling

The #SupremeCourt majority adopted an argument from a friend-of-the-court brief by Georgetown Law professor @martylederman.bsky.social in a Tuesday order declining to allow the federal deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, writes @adamliptak.bsky.social in @nytimes.com.

Copyright for Dummies Humans - Intellectual Property Cathay Y. N. Smith, Copyrighting Nature, 79 Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (May 22, 2025).Kristelia GarcíaFrom the use of copyright to combat revenge porn, to protecting slavis...

I absolutely *loved* Professor @cathaysmith.bsky.social's engaging piece on Copyrighting Nature (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review) & think you will too. Check out my Jotwell review here!

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I propose a compulsory access license as one (imperfect) solution to lower barriers to entry for nascent AI firms while preserving incentives for tech developers and content producers.

I welcome comments.

Many thanks to Eli Orbach and Andy Shi for inviting me, and for making the piece stronger.

My contribution argues that exclusive data deals between the largest LLMs and the most powerful media outlets have the potential to make market concentration worse and to stifle market entry.

Preventing AI Oligopoly and Digital Enclosure Via Compulsory Access - ProMarket The largest artificial intelligence firms are able to afford access to quality data from content producers like the New York Times, while smaller startups are being left out. This dynamic risks concen...

I have a new post at ProMarket that's part of a symposium on the competitive risks posed by AI content licensing agreements. Honored to be featured w/ friends and colleagues @marklemley.bsky.social, @jnvictor.bsky.social, @matthewsag.bsky.social & Christian Peukert.
www.promarket.org/2025/11/21/p...

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A call for papers and more information on registration will be available shortly, and I will post the link as soon as it's ready. If it wasn't enough to be in a beautiful and dynamic city, we are also lucky to have Imke Reimers from Cornell SC Johnson College of Business as our keynote speaker.

I have exciting news! The next Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Conference will be held this summer on July 6th & 7th at the University of Amsterdam.

A beautiful (& very cold!) day on a picturesque campus, with smart students, fantastic faculty, and insightful commentary. Thank you for having me, Jessica & Becky! It was fun to see my friend (and Dean) Neel Sukhatme too!

Had a wonderful time this presenting my research on access bottlenecks in the streaming and generative AI age this afternoon at the @University of Michigan Law School's IP workshop.

Songview Songview was developed by ASCAP and BMI, the nation’s two largest Performance Rights Organizations, to provide music users with the first comprehensive, reliable and consistent data on songwri...

SESAC and GMR have joined ASCAP and BMI on Songview. Despite the excessive acronyms involved in this announcement, this is really big and important news for small(er) licensees.

songview.com

Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, reported to require copyright owners to opt out. I suggest this new state of affairs may reflect the company’s risk assessment given the fast pace of innovation and fierce competition in the space. Move fast and ask forgiveness! 🫣

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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My piece on selective enforcement in copyright & its lessons for enforcement discretion more broadly is now live at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social journal! I'll present some of the ideas from this project next month at NUS Faculty of Law in their "Access To Justice in the Creative Economy" symposium.

Hey - thanks for the listen!

I mean it’s the “law amount,” so…

BLINKS AT REALITY

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I think/worry that “ideas” is self-explanatory…

Thank you friend! (Also, sheesh! That’s a lot of accomplishing & whatnot!)

very helpful, thank you Sarah!

Law prof friends - do you keep the "Presentation" and "Media" sections of your CV up to date? (If you have those sections at all?) It's a lot, how do you keep up with it?

Music Law Summit - Vanderbilt Law School Vanderbilt Law is excited to host Music Law and Generative AI: the 2024 Music law Summit on April 4, 2024.

Headed to Nashville to join @jpfishman.bsky.social and others for Vanderbilt’s 2025 Music Law Summit, where I’ll talk about streaming fraud in all of its various iterations.

Lex Lumina’s Statement on the President’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms — Lex Lumina PLLC The President’s recent attacks on lawyers and law firms for daring to have represented the President’s personal enemies or causes that he and his supporters dislike are dangerous threats to the rule o...

I like to think that our work speaks for itself, but in this acutely challenging time, it is more important than ever to be clear where we stand: firmly and unequivocally on the side of the rule of law. I am proud of my partners and our clients for choosing right over might.

It's free and open to the public, but you do need to register at the link above - I hope to see you there!