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I kept needing it, so I wrote a very quick guide to picking an open source hardware license (you know, if you don't feel like actually reading the licenses, which is totally cool):

michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...

Restating Copyright: The ALI’s Landmark Project and What It Means for the Law In May 2025, the membership of the American Law Institute (ALI) completed a milestone in our understanding and interpretation of U.S. copyright law: the approval of its first-ever Restatement of the L...

Deep Copyright Nerd Alert: The Reporter team for ALI's recently-approved Restatement of Copyright talks about the project and its significance on the Kluwer Copyright Blog. legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...

Thanks to @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social @design-law.bsky.social and friends for organizing this IP Summer Camp event and for helpful and constructive feedback on my project with @cjsprigman.bsky.social on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents"

The 2025 Public Song Project | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News The Public Song Project invites anyone to record their own musical adaptation of a work in the public domain.

HUGE congratulations to all of the winners of this year's @wnyc.org Public Song Project (w/ judging from EC'ers @littlewow.online & @michaelweinberg.org)

www.wnyc.org/story/2025-p...

Screenshot of the report "The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age"

We don't own our ebooks!! I didn't really know this, or fully understand its implications, until I was radicalized by @nyuengelberg.org.

I highly recommend checking out their report "The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy."

www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-...

IP Summer Camp illustration, created by Cathay Smith with help from AI

Looking forward to continuing our Chicago-Kent IP Summer Camp series today with Jeanne Fromer & Christopher Sprigman on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents" (moderated by yours truly).

Are AI Bots Crashing Cultural Heritage? 💻 Michael Weinberg Podcast Episode · The Tattooed Historian Show · 07/09/2025 · 32m

Thanks to @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social for having me on to talk about the GLAM-E Lab report on AI bots taking down online cultural heritage collections!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Apply to Be the Library Futures Staff Attorney Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

Do you care about institutional contracts and norm setting? Have you negotiated contracts on behalf of clients? Do you want to join a library organization that's taking a new approach to digital rights advocacy? (And having a lot of fun doing it?!)

Apply!
www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...

Analysis | How AI bots are threatening your favorite websites More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information. They’re fighting back.

@shiraovide.bsky.social dives deeper into AI scraper bots disrupting websites, including the striking (to me) number that 13 million AI bot visits in a month translated into a whole 600 human visitors

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Enjoying ISHTIP’s 16th annual workshop in Madrid, this year on intellectual property and capitalism, where I’ll be talking about Vinicius Bogea Camara’s provocative paper on “Indiffernce and Saturarion: The Dilemma of Brands in Search or a Consumer.” Some highlights so far ishtip.org/wp-content/u...

Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg - The Scholarly Kitchen AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?

Thanks to @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for talking to me about the new GLAM-E Lab / @nyuengelberg.org report on the bots swarming online collections to build AI training datasets scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/23/a...

Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Are AI bots knocking cultural heritage offline? After talking to dozens of GLAM institutions over the past few months, the answer in our new GLAM-E Lab report seems to be “yes”
www.glamelab.org/products/are...

Antitrust: Principles, Cases, and Materials Authored by Profs. Daniel Francis and Christopher Jon Sprigman (both of NYU School of Law).

Daniel Francis and I are delighted to announce the Third Edition of Antitrust: Principles, Cases, and Materials! This comprehensive, up-to-date antitrust casebook is available for free PDF download from the casebook website antitrustcasebook.org. 1/

Library Futures | Library Futures Presents… A Podcast About Ebooks! Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.

Just where did ebooks come from? Learn that and more in A Podcast About Ebooks from Library Futures! The trailer is out now!

Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode (or wait till the end of the month to binge the whole thing).

www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...

This Friday OCEAN is hosting a workshop for the GLAM-E Lab's Open GLAM Toolkit. If you have been looking for an excuse to take a deep dive into how your institution can go open, you aren't going to get a better opportunity than this.

www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

Excited to be in Santiago at Universidad de Chile for the XXVIII Conferencia Anual de ALACDE on law and economics, where I am speaking about my empirical work on trademark law with Barton Beebe and Stein asociacionalacde.org/alacde-xxviii/

Nooks & Crannies Revisionist History · Episode

I'm featured in a new Revisionist History podcast episode on Nooks & Crannies (and protecting recipes via trade secret) open.spotify.com/episode/1o9T...

Restatement of the Law, Copyright Is Approved

All 83 sections of the Restatement of Copyright have now been approved by the ALI Council and full Membership. Hurrah!

www.ali.org/news/article...

CLINICAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIP!!

Work with @jasonschultz.bsky.social's Tech Law & Policy Clinic AND @cmorten.bsky.social's NEW Science, Health & Info Clinic here at NYU as the new Clinical Teaching Fellow

apply.interfolio.com/167514

#ReasonableUseOfAllCapsBecauseThisIsExciting

IP Hall of Fame inductees for 2025 revealed Rochelle Dreyfuss, Eeva Hakoranta, Barbara Ringer and Manny Schecter are the outstanding individuals selected for induction this year

Huge congratulations to 2025 IP Hall of Fame inductee (and Engelberg Center Co-Director) Rochelle Dreyfuss!

www.iam-media.com/article/ip-h...

Congrats to our fellow @nyuengelberg.org project, the great GLAM-E Lab!

GLAM-E Lab The GLAM-E Lab works directly with GLAM institutions to develop open access solutions accessible to the entire GLAM community.

The GLAM-E Lab's work to help GLAM institutions build their open access programs just won the GW4 Open Research Prize!

gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-ope...

The Lab works directly with GLAM institutions to resolve legal issues, and then standardizes those lessons into turn-key documents:
www.glamelab.org

Antitrust Regulation of Copyright Markets – Concurrences Antitrust Publications & Events

I'm thrilled to announce that Xiyin Tang's and my article, Antitrust Regulation of Copyright Markets, has won the 2025 Antitrust Writing Award in the intellectual property category. I hope you'll give it a read!

awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/20...

Welcome to the semantic apocalypse Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning

this is a great summary of the diluting effect of chatgpt's new image generation capabilities on the distinctive aesthetic of beloved Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli #AI #StudioGhibli #ChatGPT www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to...

YouTube video by Duke University School of Law Lange Lecture 2025 | Christopher Sprigman, The Invention of Authenticity

Last week I gave the Lange Lecture at the Duke Univ. School of Law. The subject was "The Invention of Authenticity," which is the tentative title of a book I'm working on with Kal Raustiala (UCLA). Comments welcome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_g0...

Several years ago I published, with co-authors, an article reporting on experiments we did adding to standard surveys in TM cases questions aimed at assessing survey-takers' level of uncertainty about their answers. The added questions significantly improved the accuracy of the surveys. Well ... 1/

"Regulating Hidden AI Authorship" is finally out in the Virginia Law Review! Thank you to everyone who helped me improve the article over the last few months, and especially the wonderful student editors at @uvalaw.bsky.social .

virginialawreview.org/articles/reg...

The Oscar statues, first created in 1929, are not in the public domain because the 9th Cir. determined that they were not "generally published" from '29-'41

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In furtherance of my New Year's resolution of focusing on things I can change, a word about $300+ commercially-published law school textbooks: we could pretty readily live in a world where those do not exist, and, we should. Here's how. 1/