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 https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3ml6vp7o4622gI love this: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie06 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6vp7o4622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mjfufehhj22f@edleeprof.bsky.social's AI/ copyright case tracker is awesome! https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/aicopyrightcasetracker/13 Apr 2026 21:58 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfufehhj22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mj6dxpnwys265th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence is over. A fun time was had by all10 Apr 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6dxpnwys26https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3miyv7gnvxc2eThe 5th Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence at Emory University School of Law starts at Emory Law tomorrow. https://matthewsag.com/2026-legal-scholars-roundtable-on-artificial-intelligence/08 Apr 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyv7gnvxc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mhxxijuxgc2wEmory 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."26 Mar 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxxijuxgc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mhjioahjtk2xEmory Law School Launching An AI Study Program https://www.law360.com/pulse/georgia-pulse/articles/245580820 Mar 2026 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhjioahjtk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mgy2x4z4k222Not sure why https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319379 is still under review by @ssrn.bsky.social13 Mar 2026 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgy2x4z4k222https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mgxsauarwk2bI have set my email replies to passive aggressive.13 Mar 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxsauarwk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mgsnxcuo2k2yThe 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: https://matthewsag.com/the-fallacy-of-compression/11 Mar 2026 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsnxcuo2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mgsmdp2vss22I wrote a short post about my new paper, Copyright's Jagged Frontier, forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, https://matthewsag.com/copyrights-jagged-frontier/. Download it now on SSRN (who still have it marked as under review!?) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=631937911 Mar 2026 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsmdp2vss22https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mgrzh4tzfk2bIt'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.11 Mar 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrzh4tzfk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mfxpf6sows2qI’m no longer behind on any commitments (I can remember). It’s a strange feeling…01 Mar 2026 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfxpf6sows2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mfwrc6hlic2ehttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319379. Copyright's Jagged Frontier. Presented today at #WIPIP.28 Feb 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwrc6hlic2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3md2435uzw22kThis is terrible on a human level, but people who don't use Dropbox are insane. (Or would that not have helped for some reason?) [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jan 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3md2435uzw22khttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3mczj7f6hl22qhttps://matthewsag.com/legal-scholars-roundtable-on-artificial-intelligence-2026-call-for-papers/ 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, 202622 Jan 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczj7f6hl22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m64zjub46c26Content licensing deals between developers of artificial intelligence and content owners will not scale. https://www.promarket.org/2025/11/19/the-false-hope-of-content-licensing-at-internet-scale/. "A handful of cherries does not make a sundae"21 Nov 2025 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m64zjub46c26https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m5txwkmhkk27Very excited to go to Yale (first time ever) and to present this lecture. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Nov 2025 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5txwkmhkk27https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m5cda2kx6c2s@authorsalliance.bsky.social is doing great work and I was very pleased that they reposted my piece. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Nov 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5cda2kx6c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m4yjv6scus2jThe 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. https://matthewsag.com/copyright-winter-is-coming-to-wikipedia/ #CopyrightLaw #AI06 Nov 2025 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4yjv6scus2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m4xeme35lk2wA great roundup of anarchist briefs in Thomson Reuters' The Ross Intelligence. https://www.lawnext.com/2025/11/no-one-can-own-the-law-amici-come-out-in-force-to-support-ross-in-appeal-of-copyright-ruling-favoring-thomson-reuters.html06 Nov 2025 10:36 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4xeme35lk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m4szjoiej227Harvey.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. https://matthewsag.com/do-law-schools-need-harvey-ai/04 Nov 2025 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4szjoiej227https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m4g2vgebzk2yhttps://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/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/ As predicted, but I think music generation is something of a special case.30 Oct 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4g2vgebzk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/matthewsag.bsky.social/post/3m3nien2jis26Claude is showing some resistance to being tested on memorization. https://claude.ai/share/60338544-fe51-48cc-abbf-97b54ae12e4220 Oct 2025 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:rep5ico4ylkyztvrlwcrurwp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3nien2jis26