Datta Center for High Tech Law (DCHTL)

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Pamela Samuelson Edition

How it started: 1976
How it’s going: At the Hepworth Museum in St Ives, UK

Prof. Samuelson will be speaking at Santa Clara Law's #IP Conference TODAY!

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How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Graeme Dinwoodie Edition

How it started: 1976
How it’s going: Real photos, now AI-illustrated by ChatGPT

Prof. Dinwoodie will be speaking at SCU Law's IP Conference TODAY!

See the full schedule here: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Professor Mark McKenna Edition

Professor McKenna will be speaking on the "How It's Going: What Went Wrong" panel at Santa Clara Law's Intellectual Property Conference TOMORROW.

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How it Started vs. How it's Going: Professor Sharon Sandeen Edition

How it started: High school graduation
How it’s going: Soon to be retired (July 2026)

Professor Sandeen will be speaking on the "How it Started" panel at SCU Law's #IP Conference TOMORROW!

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How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Camilla Hrdy Edition

Prof. Hrdy will be speaking on the "Where Do We Go From Here" panel at Santa Clara University School of Law's Intellectual Property Conference this Friday, January 30.

Don't miss out!: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Rob Merges

How it started: Preparing the April Fool’s issue of my high school newspaper
How it’s going: I guess legal scholarship is not as funny

Prof. Merges will be speaking at Santa Clara Law's #IP Conference ON FRIDAY

Register now: lnkd.in/g8NNq_Sx

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Tyler Ochoa Edition

How it started: In 1976, as a new chapter in copyright law begins

How it’s going: Prof. Ochoa, SCU Law's #copyright law expert, will moderate the "How it Started" panel at our IP Conference on Jan. 30.

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How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Jeanne Fromer (@jeannefromer.bsky.social)

How it started: 1976
How it’s going: Vice Dean and Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Prof. Fromer will be on the "How it's Going: What Went Right" panel: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Prof. Mark Lemley Edition (@marklemley.bsky.social)

How it started: Hair today...
How it’s going: Gone tomorrow

Prof. Lemley will be on the "How It’s Going: What Went Wrong?" panel at SCU Law’s IP Conference on Jan 30. Register now: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

How it Started vs. How it's Going: Associate Dean Laura Norris Edition (@lauraleenorris)

How it started: 1976, at the beginning of an extraordinary journey

How it’s going: Now stepping into her new role as Director of Innovation and shaping what's next.

How It Started vs. How It’s Going: Professor Eric Goldman Edition 📜➡️🤖 (@ericgoldman.bsky.social)

How it started: Prof. Goldman in 1976

How it’s going: Prof. Goldman, upgraded to full AI cyborg mode.

💡 Don’t miss our IP Conference on Jan. 30! Register now: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

🚨 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

How it started: The High Tech Law Institute (HTLI), shaping conversations where technology and law meet.

How it’s going: A new name and logo made possible by a generous gift from alumna Mita Datta. We’re proud to continue as the Datta Center for High Tech Law (DCHTL).

In honor of National #Bobblehead Day, here’s a fun throwback to our custom bobbleheads, including one featuring our very own Co-Director, Prof. Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman.bsky.social). If you haven’t yet, take a moment to enjoy the “Unauthorized Annotated Bobblehead” details.

HISvHIG: Netflix Edition 🎞️➡️📺

How it started: Sony’s Betamax gave the power to record and watch TV on your own time.

How it’s going: Netflix now streams millions worldwide at the click of a button.

Join us Jan. 30 to explore how it started and how it’s going in IP law. law.scu.edu/centers/high...

HTLI: Legal Experts Examine 50 Years of Change in Intellectual Property Law in the Digital Age -- Campus Technology A Jan. 30 event offered by the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University convenes legal experts on intellectual property and IP law to consider the past 50 years and the future of IP in light ...

Prof. Ochoa gives a great preview of what to expect at our upcoming conference, “Intellectual Property Law: How it Started, How It's Going,” where he’ll be moderating a panel of leading #IP scholars. Read more & register here: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

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📢 ‼️ Big news from Santa Clara Law!

Alumna Madhumita “Mita” Datta, J.D. ’16 has made a $5M gift to endow and rename the High Tech Law Institute as the Datta Center for High Tech Law.

Read more:
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Santa Clara Law School Alumna Makes Monumental Gift to Support Excellence in High Tech Law

Exciting news: Santa Clara Law's High Tech Law Institute (@scuhtli.bsky.social) will become the Datta Center for High Tech Law, thanks to an incredibly generous gift from alum Madhumita Datta!

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How it started vs. How it’s going: FaceTime Edition

1976: Blue Earth Valley Telephone advertised a videophone.
Now: We #FaceTime friends and family - even over Thanksgiving!

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of #copyright & #IP shaping the future. Register here:
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On January 30, @scuhtli.bsky.social is hosting an event: "Intellectual Property Law: How It Started, How It’s Going"

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Hope to see you there!

How it started vs. How it’s going – Apple Edition 🍏

1976: A wooden box, a keyboard, and the Apple I = $666.66.
Now: Sleek Macs powering instant #AI tools.

Explore the journey of tech and #intellectualproperty law at HTLI’s #IP Conference, Jan 30, 2026.

👉 Register: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

We’re launching a special campaign leading up to our conference, Intellectual Property Law: How It Started, How It’s Going.

Join us as we look back from the 1970s to today, highlighting tech milestones and nostalgic faculty throwbacks.

Follow along and register here: law.scu.edu/centers/high...

🎙️ Tune in Thurs. 9/18!
Prof. Tyler Ochoa joins To Be Continued 5—a free virtual symposium on seriality + adaptation across media.

As the only law prof on the lineup, he’ll bring key insights to the #Copyright panel. Don’t miss it!

🔗 Info & registration: www.monash.edu/arts/media-f...

Amicus Brief Urges Seventh Circuit to Award Attorneys' Fees in SAD Scheme Case-Louis Poulsen v. Lightzey - Technology & Marketing Law Blog Prof. Betsy Rosenblatt (Case Law) and I filed an amicus brief supporting the Seventh Circuit appeal of a SAD Scheme defendant. The amicus brief was drafted by Wesley Johnson and the team at Cross-Bord...

Blog Post: Amicus Brief Urges Seventh Circuit to Award Attorneys’ Fees in SAD Scheme Case–Louis Poulsen v. Lightzey

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We are excited to once again host the ABA's 7th #AI & #Robotics National Institute (@americanbar.org), Oct 13–14 at Santa Clara Law! Explore agentic AI, ethical AI use, legal risks & more.

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The published version of my April 2024 talk, "Generative AI is Doomed" 🤖📉

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Emoji and the Law - Freakonomics Emoji and the Law - Freakonomics

🎧 Tune in to hear HTLI Co-Director Professor Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman.bsky.social) on an episode of Freakonomics Radio: The Economics of Everyday Things as he discusses emojis and the law. ⚖️

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Updated Map of US copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (Aug. 12, 2025) We updated the map to add the Strike 3 Holdings suit v. Meta. By our count, this brings the total to 48 copyright lawsuits in the U.S. against AI companies, of which 45 are still pending (after 3 w…

Updated Map of All US Copyright suits v AI companies. 45 cases still live. 3 voluntarily dismissed. Don’t expect any other cases to have decisions on fair use until spring 2026 at the earliest. Bartz trial on pirated books is Dec 1st in SF, 8 AM sharp.

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Judge Kness: the SAD Scheme "Should No Longer Be Perpetuated in Its Present Form"-Eicher Motors v. Schedule A Defendants - Technology & Marketing Law Blog When I first encountered the SAD Scheme, I felt like Alice entering Wonderland. The scheme was so obviously whacked that I felt like I had tumbled into an upside-down jurisprudential world. I was sure...

In a blockbuster opinion, Judge Kness destroys the SAD Scheme, saying "the Schedule A mechanism should no longer be perpetuated in its present form" 🧵 1/18

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[Personal note: the opinion cites my paper 15x ssrn.com/abstract=438... ]

#StopTheSADScheme

SAD Scheme Lawyers Sanctioned for Judge-Shopping-Dongguan Deego v. Schedule A - Technology & Marketing Law Blog This ruling involves two SAD Scheme patent cases brought by Dongguan Deego Trading Co., Ltd., represented by the Getech Law LLC law firm. The first action was filed before Judge Tharp in the Northern ...

Blog Post: SAD Scheme Lawyers Sanctioned for Judge-Shopping–Dongguan Deego v. Schedule A

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🚨 This just in! 🚨 The second edition of The Law of Design, co-authored by Prof. Edward Lee (‪@edleeprof.bsky.social‬), is now available.

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