Sarah Polcz

I just finished reading Red Pill. Thanks for writing great works that face the challenges of our times.

First court ruling on fair use of AI training -- training on copyrighted works is fair use, but obtaining the works from a pirated website is separately a violation

N.B. I represent Anthropic in this matter

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I'm happy to report that the district court just granted summary judgment to Perkins Coie in its lawsuit against the Trump administration order. It's a powerful decision, and it cites our amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie

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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

Big firms put their money over their integrity & the integrity of the law "business."
DoJ lawyers are expected to parrot their boss's words w/o regard to their obligations as to the courts.
Law has always only been partly a "profession" while also a business. But "profession" is evaporating.

Unconstitutional Attack on Law Firms? Stanford’s Mark Lemley Discusses How Legal Scholars are Pushing Back Against President Trump’s Executive Orders | Stanford Law School read the submitted amicus brief Does presidential power extend to the ability to take aim at law firms, shutting them out of federal business?  Accor

I did a short interview on the amicus brief we filed in support of Perkins Coie

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I agree that generative AI firms, like OpenAi, should be accountable to humanity. This is why @polcz.bsky.social and I advocate for fractional public ownership of AGI. Our common humanity was harvested by these machines and we are each entitled to a share of it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Screenshot of Abrams opinion: "All of the five defendants were born in Russia. They were intelligent, had considerable schooling, and at the time they were arrested they had lived in the United States terms varying from five to ten years, but *none of them had applied for naturalization.*" (highlighted)

Re-reading Abrams v. United States for the gazillionth time to prep for class tomorrow and I had overlooked this before, or forgotten it: perhaps the most famous free speech opinion ever, the birth of the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor was... written about non-citizens.

What is so hard to understand about this???

Loyalties v. royalties: Copyright’s creative incentives and collaboration Professor Sarah Polcz discusses a link between creators’ relative rewards and the quality of creative output.

Next Tuesday I'll be speaking about Copyright's creative incentives and collaboration in the music industry at the University of Sydney Law School, also hosted by the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, and @admscentre.org.au www.eventbrite.com.au/e/loyalties-...

Not sure if I count as optimistic, but here’s the thumbnail of how to share the productivity gains (potentially) created by generative AI that my coauthor @polcz.bsky.social and I presented at Columbia a few weeks ago papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

this is an excellent suggestion

Defending democracy is too expensive. So is social security and running our national parks. But it appears we have plenty of money for the government to bail out crypto investors

Thank you to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Law School for hosting me and @polcz.bsky.social today! We’ll be presenting our research on how many of the harms of generative AI can be addressed through fractional public ownership of AI.

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TaxProf Blog: Bearer-Friend & Polcz Present Sharing The Algorithm: The Tax Solution To Generative A.I. Today At Missouri Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington; Google Scholar) & Sarah Polcz (UC-Davis; Google Scholar) present Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative A.I. at Missouri today as part of its Ta...

Not gonna lie. Still get a thrill every time I'm on TaxProfBlog. And this time with two friends! @polcz.bsky.social @davidgamage.bsky.social .
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Today's the day! Co-presenting my work in progress on how to tax AI with @polcz.bsky.social at Mizzou! Fractional public ownership of generative AI is both doable and necessary. More details here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Financing clean technologies within Canada’s Indigenous communities: Perspectives on sustainable energy transition from practitioners and academics Indigenous communities across Canada continue to maintain significant influence on the long-term trajectory of that nation’s clean energy transition. …

A fav thing about being a professor is when people I don't know somehow encounter my ideas and cite them. A team of scholars and activists in Canada who are working to finance renewable energy projects for indigenous communities just cited my reparations research! Solidarity across borders.

So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.

This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later

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On Wednesday, February 19th, Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington Law) & Sarah Polcz (UC-Davis Law) will present their draft paper – "Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to A.I." – at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. 1/

Congratulations!

It’s almost like Trump has no idea what he’s doing

They say you only remember how people made you feel, but Mark not only bolsters junior colleagues' morale, he devotes significant time and attention to helping us sharpen our thinking as scholars, a gift that keeps on giving and amplifies our impact. A truly deserving recipient of this award

@ucdavis.bsky.social Law Professor @polcz.bsky.social and Professor @bearerfriend.bsky.social (George Washington University Law School) are presenting at the Section on Securities Regulation’s panel about AI and big data. 💻

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