Matthew Sag
@matthewsag.bsky.social
Law professor focusing on Copyright and AI, mostly. Most of my work is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=461043
5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence is over. A fun time was had by all
The 5th Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence at Emory University School of Law starts at Emory Law tomorrow. matthewsag.com/2026-legal-s...
2026 Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence – Matthew Sag
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Emory Law is hosting our 5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable in Artificial Intelligence, and I'm delivering this year's keynote: "How to Be a Good Cyborg—Understanding and Using Generative AI as a Legal Technology."
Emory Law School Launching An AI Study Program www.law360.com/pulse/georgi...
Emory Law School Launching An AI Study Program - Law360 Pulse
Emory University School of Law in Atlanta is launching a concentration center on artificial intelligence and the law that will be offered beginning in the upcoming academic year.
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If push comes to shove, we can always switch assessment to viva voce to protect it from AI. Oh.
High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence
A claimant giving evidence in the High Court was fed answers through smart glasses he was wearing that were connected to his mobile phone, a judge has found.
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The claim that AI models are “just compression” misunderstands both compression and models. Memorization alone does not make GPT, Claude, or Gemini equivalent to MP3s of their training data. More here: matthewsag.com/the-fallacy-...
The Fallacy of Compression – Matthew Sag
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I wrote a short post about my new paper, Copyright's Jagged Frontier, forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, matthewsag.com/copyrights-j.... Download it now on SSRN (who still have it marked as under review!?) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Copyright’s Jagged Frontier – Matthew Sag
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It's interesting how much easier it is to set up LLM APIs for open AI and anthropic compared to Google. It's a reminder of just how massive Google is and how many different things it does.
The Intellectual Property Institute's Evil Twin debate reminded us we can air our disagreements on IP policy in a friendly exchange. This year, Robert Brauneis & @matthewsag.bsky.social focused on AI at the WIPIP conference, hosted by @bulaw.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIK...
A great Evil Twin Debate at WIPIP: Bob Brauneis & @matthewsag.bsky.social on “Larceny or Liberation: Is AI’s Non-Expressive Use Unfair To Humans?” They killed it -- really substantive and really funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIK... #richmondlaw #eviltwindebate
I’m no longer behind on any commitments (I can remember). It’s a strange feeling…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Copyright's Jagged Frontier. Presented today at #WIPIP.
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This is terrible on a human level, but people who don't use Dropbox are insane. (Or would that not have helped for some reason?)
matthewsag.com/legal-schola... Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 Call for Papers (details on the website, submit via the google form). Deadline for submission is February 15, 2026
Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 Call for Papers – Matthew Sag
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
Content licensing deals between developers of artificial intelligence and content owners will not scale. www.promarket.org/2025/11/19/t.... "A handful of cherries does not make a sundae"
The False Hope of Content Licensing at Internet Scale - ProMarket
Is there a world where AI developers could get the training data they need through content licensing deals? Matthew Sag argues that content licensing deals between developers of artificial intelligence and content owners are only possible for large content owners and cannot feasibly apply to the bulk of producers and owners of content on the internet.
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Thank you to @matthewsag.bsky.social for a wonderful presentation on "The Snoopy Solution: How Fair Use and Licensing for Generative AI Can Coexist" at today’s Law & Tech Talk!
Very excited to go to Yale (first time ever) and to present this lecture.
Tue., Nov. 18 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 We're excited to host Prof. @matthewsag.bsky.social (@emoryuniversity.bsky.social Law) for a talk about "The Snoopy Solution: How Fair Use and Licensing for Generative AI Can Coexist" Cosponsored by YJoLT DM for Zoom details
@authorsalliance.bsky.social is doing great work and I was very pleased that they reposted my piece.
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. This is a guest post by @matthewsag.bsky.social, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School
The Authors Guild v. OpenAI ruling just set a troubling low bar for "substantial similarity" of fiction summaries. If ChatGPT outputs are infringing, then thousands of Wikipedia plot summaries are next. matthewsag.com/copyright-wi... #CopyrightLaw #AI
Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?) – Matthew Sag
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A great roundup of anarchist briefs in Thomson Reuters' The Ross Intelligence. www.lawnext.com/2025/11/no-o...
‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters
As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge's copyright rulings in fa...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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Harvey.AI is courting law schools like Westlaw/Lexis once did, but do we really need it? After a demo, my verdict: it's ChatGPT in a black turtleneck. Good for firms needing secure doc review & RAG, but law students can already do most of this with existing tools. matthewsag.com/do-law-schoo...
Do law schools need Harvey.AI? – Matthew Sag
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chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/d... As predicted, but I think music generation is something of a special case.
Dominoes start to drop: Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio settles copyright lawsuit filed by UMG Recordings. Announce new AI music platform to launch in 2026.
Here’s the press release below. The settlement does not include Sony and Warner Music Group, 2 other plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which apparently will continue on. UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UD…
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