Andres Sawicki

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my teenager inexplicably left in the kitchen

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no answer from me, but i loved that show!!!

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my teenager inexplicably left in the kitchen

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Proud to be an MIT alum. This is what it looks like when an institution stands up for its values.

Professor Sawicki Awarded Grant to Study Generative AI | University of Miami School of Law The grant was awarded by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote economic growth.

Professor Andres Sawicki received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how terms and conditions from over 100 generative AI firms impact user behavior and market competition.

also, sadly, most of my meme work is now in text or DM . . . not as much of an audience for such things on social media anymore

lololol yes!! we met i think at IPSC? and you definitely asked about the llama, who is actually @technollama.bsky.social

that wasn't as funny as the time jason rantanen talked to me for 10 mins about some dataset issue before realizing i am not, in fact, @ryanwhalen.bsky.social, but it was close

Thanks to David Zimmer for work on Jonathan Masur’s & my amicus brief in support of cert in MSN v. Novartis, drawing on our “Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law” article to explain why the Fed Cir’s approach to disclosure for after-arising technologies is incoherent www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

🚨Meet the AI RFP #EGgrantee(s)! 🚨

First up, @apublicgood.bsky.social and John Newman will "study the terms and conditions of more than 100 genAI firms." Their project would be the first large-scale effort to document this issue "systematically."

Learn more👇
equitablegrowth.org/grants/compe...

Super grateful for this grant from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social!!

With John Newman, we'll explore the antitrust implications of genAI terms of service.

GenAI's social & economic impact is growing fast. We aim to ensure that incumbents' ToS don't raise anticompetitive barriers to entry.

Want to live & work in a tropical paradise? Join us!!

Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropriate candidates will be considered for a joint appt with our Institute for Data Science & Computing.

Pls contact me if you have any q's. Share widely!!

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They finally made the milk from that hotel

My article with Peter Henderson explaining why AI companies will find it challenging to enforce their terms of use against competitors who distill their models and others who use them in ways they don't like is now published in the Indiana Law Journal.
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Judge Alsup has the first true opinion on fair use for generative AI in Bartz v. Anthropic. He holds that AI training is fair use, and so is buying books to scan them, but that downloading pirated copies of books for an internal training-data database is not fair use. 🧵

Bartz

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

This has made it much easier for @design-law.bsky.social @sarahrajec.bsky.social and I to update our casebook this summer

Fortunately, no vampires

🚨Call for Papers: Miami Law & Finance Workshop, Fall 25

I am excited to invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop! Abstracts should be sent to us—nikita.aggarwal@miami.edu, cbradley@law.miami.edu and ggeorgiev@miami.edu—by Friday July 18th, 2025.

the last time something like this happened we ended up writing a casebook together . . .

i would read this just fyi

on a quick skim, sounds plausible? claims priority to Oct 2023, which is a not crazy timeframe to be patenting this, altho i don't know precisely the state of the prior art then. probably some 101 issues too. but i wouldn't dismiss out of hand.

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GC Group Championing Rule of Law Tops 500 Members Just Days After Launch "We can no longer trust that law firms will put their professional ethics and their clients' long-term interests first over political influence, fear of retribution, and their own short-term interests," General Counsels United stated.

More than 500 general counsel have signed on to a group supporting the rule of law and law firms under attack by Trump.

Just in case the firms that capitulated thought they were doing what their clients wanted . . .

www.law.com/therecorder/...

Fellow law profs, I'm curious: When do you generally have to make your casebook selections for the fall semester? For the spring? Thanks in advance!

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And a special shout-out to the incomparable @thelior.bsky.social, whose 1L Property course is the model I've aspired to over the past decade-plus. Looking forward to another great semester this fall!!

Thanks especially to Tania Garcia-Solis for the nomination, Dean Abril for supporting my work, and Provost Prado for promoting excellence at the U!! Congrats to the amazing Prof Stewart for bringing a trophy home to the law school!

Like a lot of academics, I expected to love doing research; I never imagined how fun it would be to talk to a classroom full of 1Ls about foxes, joint tenancies, & zoning variances. And it's been immensely rewarding to hear from students whose careers were influenced by our time together.

School of Law faculty celebrated in the Provost's Awards The annual awards honored the work of University of Miami faculty and staff members using innovative techniques in class and through their research and scholarship, including several from the School o...

Honored to have been a finalist for the Provost's Teaching Awards @univmiami.bsky.social.

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Yes!! John Newman and I have a database of GenAI ToS. Hope to make it publicly available in the coming months. Email me if you're interested in details.