I just had a fantastic conversation with @brianlfrye.bsky.social for his Ipse Dixit podcast about hip-hop, sampling, copyright, racism, and AI. Check it out.

Brian L. Frye@brianlfrye.bsky.social · 2d ago

I just posted Ipse Dixit #840, featuring @aramsinn.bsky.social of @americanuniversity.bsky.social discussing "Music Sampling Law as Regulatory Vacuum and Check on Black Cultural Power" in the Oxford Handbook on Sampling in Popular Music @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

I just posted Ipse Dixit #840, featuring @aramsinn.bsky.social of @americanuniversity.bsky.social discussing "Music Sampling Law as Regulatory Vacuum and Check on Black Cultural Power" in the Oxford Handbook on Sampling in Popular Music @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

Aram Sinnreich on the Law of Sampling & Racial Injustice | Ipse Dixit

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An absolutely wild story, in which a bogus plagiarism accusation is only one element. My takeaway: The plagiarism police are no more capable of self-criticism or reflection than any other police. ACAB? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z

The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger

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Vienna kismet.

“New” camera. Only €20!

The 3rd Circuit has apparently affirmed in Thomson-Reuters v. ROSS, but the opinion is sealed. WTF? www.reuters.com/business/med...

US appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters' landmark win in AI training lawsuit

A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling for information services company Thomson Reuters in ​its copyright dispute with former legal-research rival Ross Intelligence over Ross' alleged misuse of...

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I wonder if Chakrabarty’s co-authors will request the retraction of this paper, or at least remove their names from it, given the obvious undisclosed & incurable conflict of interest? They really should. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/25/o...

OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case

A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times' ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a nothingburger of a story, because...

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This is why we have attorney fee shifting for right of publicity claims.

A tour of the Bolex factory from 1961, amazing! youtu.be/enMrFaohewQ?...

Images Vivantes - Bolex Paillard en 1961

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I just posted Ipse Dixit #839, featuring Mike Plante discussing his new book "Sensation Cinema: The Audacious, Defiant History of Louis Sher and the Art Theatre Guild." The amazing story of Jacobellis v. Ohio, based on primary sources! shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...

Mike Plante on Louis Sher & Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) | Ipse Dixit

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Presenting a work in progress at the Northeastern CLIC WIP. Thank you so much to @lexlanham.bsky.social for organizing & hosting! So many great projects.

An interesting thing about returning to running in your 50s is that you don’t just wonder how long you’ll keep getting faster, but also when you’ll start getting slower. A little under a 7:30 mile for now anyway.

Now that I’m settling in at Tulane, I’d like to do more Ipse Dixit interviews. If you’ve got a new paper or book you’d like to discuss, lmk.

Client’s employee has legally irrelevant opinion, what else is new?

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w ago

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Delighted to see my essay “Exercises in Jurisprudential Style” get a “recommended”! legaltheoryblog.com/2026/09/17/f...

Frye on Exercises in Jurisprudential Style

Brian L. Frye (Tulane University Law School) has posted Exercises in Jurisprudential Style on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This essay is a work of conceptual art in the form of a legal sc…

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Indeed. Ironically, when it comes to charitable spending, effective altruists haven’t actually been all that effective. It turns out that altruism is hard to scale.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 4w ago

What I, a relative normie, think "AI Safety" and "effective altruism" should mean: make sure ChatGPT isn't driving kids to suicide and that nonprofits use their money wisely and effectively What it seems to actually mean: a bunch of Berkley doomers in a sex cult think the robot apocalypse is coming

Tickled to see my institution promoting this! 😜

Tulane Law School@tulanelawschool.bsky.social · 4w ago

What happens when a comedy club has a copyright and trademark question? They call a law professor. Professor @brianlfrye.bsky.social, an expert in intellectual property law, sat down with the team behind The Comedy Cellar to talk copyright, trademarks, joke stealing and more. Check it out ⤵️

What happens when a comedy club has a copyright and trademark question? They call a law professor. Professor @brianlfrye.bsky.social, an expert in intellectual property law, sat down with the team behind The Comedy Cellar to talk copyright, trademarks, joke stealing and more. Check it out ⤵️

In Defense of Plagiarism╎ Brian L. Frye on Ross Barkan, Claudine Gay, and Writing With AI

YouTube video by Comedy Cellar USA

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Academic freedom doesn’t mean freedom from criticism.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 4w ago

In a rare move, Chancellor Frenk just publicly and boldly affirmed academic freedom. Oh, wait, no. He did the opposite. The idea that anyone was advancing support for the attacks is absurd and obscene and that’s what they should be ashamed of. Use archive.ps for non-paywall.

Indeed. United States copyright law is actually even narrower than the Berne Convention.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last mo.

there are a lot of authors who believe that copyright entitles them to control what kind of beneficial use third parties can make of their intellectual property beyond the limited rights in the Berne Convention, and this is not or has never been the case.

Ok landlord. Nothing is being “stolen.” You’re just not collecting rent from your competition.

RIP Mr. Moe. You were my first dog & the best one I’ll ever have. The day @maybell.bsky.social introduced me to you, I fell in love. We had a lot of good walks. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.

I posted this essay over the weekend. I guess I should submit it for publication, but that’s such a drag & this one isn’t such a good fit for the process. So, as usual, if any law journal wants to publish it, I’ll accept the first offer I receive. 105 downloads already!

Brian L. Frye@brianlfrye.bsky.social · last mo.

I just posted a new essay titled “Exercises in Jurisprudential Style,” in which I plagiarize Raymond Queneau, Sol LeWitt, Kenneth Goldsmith, Hollis Frampton & the 12 most important English-language jurisprudes, among others. Here’s a link & abstract. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New faculty photo.

RIP David Fair. PS this timeless advice works for everything, including legal scholarship.

I posted a new essay last night. Should have some more papers coming soon.

Brian L. Frye@brianlfrye.bsky.social · last mo.

I just posted a new essay titled “Exercises in Jurisprudential Style,” in which I plagiarize Raymond Queneau, Sol LeWitt, Kenneth Goldsmith, Hollis Frampton & the 12 most important English-language jurisprudes, among others. Here’s a link & abstract. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just posted a new essay titled “Exercises in Jurisprudential Style,” in which I plagiarize Raymond Queneau, Sol LeWitt, Kenneth Goldsmith, Hollis Frampton & the 12 most important English-language jurisprudes, among others. Here’s a link & abstract. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Some office decorations.

If you haven’t heard enough from me about TAG! the Jurisdiction Game… or even if you have… check this out for Brian’s thoughtful and insightful questions!

Brian L. Frye@brianlfrye.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just posted @IpseDixitPod #838, featuring @rlheppner.bsky.social of @duquesneuniversity.bsky.social law discussing his board game TAG!: The Jurisdiction Game, which is based on the rules of civil procedure. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...