Lumi Olteanu
@lumiip.bsky.social
lawyer morphed to academic; teaching and researching IP law and other things; astronomy enthusiast. Assistant Professor @Warwick Law School
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I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?
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🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social
Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media
The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in th...
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social
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Here lies human civilization. They were watching things on television that were different from what was happening.
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Here lies human civilization. They were watching things on television that were different from what was happening.
Austrian oil company OMV objects to its brand being associated with vagina care products 🤪 The oil company claims dilution over the ‘OMV! By Vagisil’ word mark. The General Court found a link couldn’t be ruled out bc products might be sold at filling stations.
September 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Austrian oil company OMV objects to its brand being associated with vagina care products 🤪 The oil company claims dilution over the ‘OMV! By Vagisil’ word mark. The General Court found a link couldn’t be ruled out bc products might be sold at filling stations.
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MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell
Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell
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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
Now this is what I call a textbook example of trade mark tarnishment where the US parody defence would not work :))
Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil
Pilot dies after plane carrying 180kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in Brazil
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Now this is what I call a textbook example of trade mark tarnishment where the US parody defence would not work :))
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Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI, buff.ly/S3sT27b - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proc. 20th Intern. Conf. on AI & Law (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.
Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI
Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proceedings of the 20th…
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI, buff.ly/S3sT27b - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proc. 20th Intern. Conf. on AI & Law (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.
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Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.
I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics.
Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.
Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.
Vacuous, generic and scattershot advice for incoming 1st years on the use of AI at university. Especially liking 'Chin recommends giving it class notes and asking it to generate practice exam questions.' Surely we can't be the only programme that supplies students with past & practice exams?
September 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.
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i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
September 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
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Incredible scenes as the University of Warwick refuses to answer an FOI on the cost of an advertorial photo feature on their chief marketing officer in Vogue Singapore because it is a 'trade secret' www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...
Cost of Vogue Singapore Advertorial - a Freedom of Information request to University of Warwick
I would like to request 1) all email correspondence relating to, and 2) the price to the University of Warwick of, the placement of the following article in Vogue Singapore:
Ajay Teli on how cultural...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Incredible scenes as the University of Warwick refuses to answer an FOI on the cost of an advertorial photo feature on their chief marketing officer in Vogue Singapore because it is a 'trade secret' www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...
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Warwick hired “celebrity chef Aldo Zilli to create a “sardine and prawn” dish to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Venice”, plus more Ajay Teli trips, talks - as if future students care about a CMO! This isn’t appealing to students—it’s maladministration www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...
July 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Warwick hired “celebrity chef Aldo Zilli to create a “sardine and prawn” dish to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Venice”, plus more Ajay Teli trips, talks - as if future students care about a CMO! This isn’t appealing to students—it’s maladministration www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...
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LLMs can be used in ways that support thinking (article gives interesting directions on that potential, if one is disciplined) but the article contains no evidence of supporting its headline that students *are* doing this rather than cognitive offloading of the act of thinking & understanding.
Most students are using AI to write, but not necessarily to cheat. They’re brainstorming, revising and thinking critically with tools like ChatGPT.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it
If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.
theconversation.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
LLMs can be used in ways that support thinking (article gives interesting directions on that potential, if one is disciplined) but the article contains no evidence of supporting its headline that students *are* doing this rather than cognitive offloading of the act of thinking & understanding.
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Academics need to lean forward into policy advocacy now, to the degree it can help preserve independent and evidence supported thinking and discourse.
The fact that it feels very uncomfortable to do this work is precisely why we need more people doing it.
The fact that it feels very uncomfortable to do this work is precisely why we need more people doing it.
June 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Academics need to lean forward into policy advocacy now, to the degree it can help preserve independent and evidence supported thinking and discourse.
The fact that it feels very uncomfortable to do this work is precisely why we need more people doing it.
The fact that it feels very uncomfortable to do this work is precisely why we need more people doing it.
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🚨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...
Bartz
www.documentcloud.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🚨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...
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We have the first referral to the CJEU on AI and copyright regarding a chatbot reproducing text in an output, whether such potential reproduction is a communication to the public, and if so, whether Article 4 of the DSM Directive is applicable. curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
May 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We have the first referral to the CJEU on AI and copyright regarding a chatbot reproducing text in an output, whether such potential reproduction is a communication to the public, and if so, whether Article 4 of the DSM Directive is applicable. curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
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Academic literature on whether gamification helps in higher education is negative to inconclusive after decades of work, and those ones had active thought going into them.
You can just take academic papers and paste them into Gemini 2.5/ChatGPT o3/Claude 4 with the prompt "build me a game based on this paper, make it interesting and thematic but still conveying key findings" and get a tiny working educational game. (In this case, I used Gemini)
May 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Academic literature on whether gamification helps in higher education is negative to inconclusive after decades of work, and those ones had active thought going into them.
Finally some fantastic news from my beloved 🇷🇴
The young generation back home is admirable, they turned our hopes in reality💪🏻
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The young generation back home is admirable, they turned our hopes in reality💪🏻
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Romanian liberal mayor Nicusor Dan wins tense race for presidency - BBC News
Nicusor Dan fights off a strong challenge from a right-wing nationalist after months of political turbulence.
www.bbc.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Finally some fantastic news from my beloved 🇷🇴
The young generation back home is admirable, they turned our hopes in reality💪🏻
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The young generation back home is admirable, they turned our hopes in reality💪🏻
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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AI companions pose unacceptable, well-documented risks to developing minds and should not be used by anyone under 18, Common Sense founder Jim Steyer writes. www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-compa...
Why AI ‘Companions’ Are Not Kids’ Friends | TechPolicy.Press
AI companions pose unacceptable, well-documented risks to developing minds and should not be used by anyone under 18, Jim Steyer writes.
www.techpolicy.press
April 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
AI companions pose unacceptable, well-documented risks to developing minds and should not be used by anyone under 18, Common Sense founder Jim Steyer writes. www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-compa...
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"Congress can no longer meaningfully claim that what it passes are laws. What it makes now are weapons — rules Trump and other parties use only against people they don’t like."
The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon
It’s not a law, it’s a weapon.
www.theverge.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Congress can no longer meaningfully claim that what it passes are laws. What it makes now are weapons — rules Trump and other parties use only against people they don’t like."