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Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law
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New scholarship alert: In our new paper--STRATEGIC DELEGATION OF MORAL DECISIONS TO AI--Stephan Tontrup and I show experimentally that people consider AI to be an entity capable of bearing moral responsibility, and also ... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI
<p>Our study examines how individuals perceive the moral agency of artificial intelligence (AI), and, specifically, whether individuals believe that by using AI
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November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New scholarship alert: In our new paper--STRATEGIC DELEGATION OF MORAL DECISIONS TO AI--Stephan Tontrup and I show experimentally that people consider AI to be an entity capable of bearing moral responsibility, and also ... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Congratulations to @jeannefromer.bsky.social for being named Vice Dean of University Partnerships at NYU Law!
Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well
Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well
October 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Congratulations to @jeannefromer.bsky.social for being named Vice Dean of University Partnerships at NYU Law!
Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well
Fear not Engelverse, that new title won't stop her from being a Center Co-Director as well
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My clinic just filed a brief on this very problem, earlier this month! Thread below!
Trade secrecy—or at least the threat of trade secrecy claims—thwart a large and growing swathe of regulation, public communication, and corporate accountability.
bsky.app/profile/cmor...
Trade secrecy—or at least the threat of trade secrecy claims—thwart a large and growing swathe of regulation, public communication, and corporate accountability.
bsky.app/profile/cmor...
🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨
An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
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An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
🧵
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October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My clinic just filed a brief on this very problem, earlier this month! Thread below!
Trade secrecy—or at least the threat of trade secrecy claims—thwart a large and growing swathe of regulation, public communication, and corporate accountability.
bsky.app/profile/cmor...
Trade secrecy—or at least the threat of trade secrecy claims—thwart a large and growing swathe of regulation, public communication, and corporate accountability.
bsky.app/profile/cmor...
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Today's trade secrecy trouble:
"There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."
"There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."
Here’s What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made
Here’s What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made
We wanted to know where a widely used prescription drug that treats high cholesterol was manufactured and whether the factory had quality issues. The search led to a labyrinth of company names and dat...
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today's trade secrecy trouble:
"There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."
"There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."
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New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thrilled for the next 2 days with @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center, exploring the consumer across IP, antitrust, and tech law, including sustainability, the consumer scientist, IP rights as signal to consumers, AI, fair use, and competition www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
Conspicuous Consumers: An Engelberg Center Symposium
Over exposed and under explored, consumers play critical roles across a range of legal doctrines. We're giving them their due.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thrilled for the next 2 days with @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center, exploring the consumer across IP, antitrust, and tech law, including sustainability, the consumer scientist, IP rights as signal to consumers, AI, fair use, and competition www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
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Another open access win:
The GLAM-E Lab worked with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales to bring thousands of public domain images from their collection online with their new image platform
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
The GLAM-E Lab worked with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales to bring thousands of public domain images from their collection online with their new image platform
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales - Museums Association
More than 2,000 images newly available in public domain
www.museumsassociation.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Another open access win:
The GLAM-E Lab worked with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales to bring thousands of public domain images from their collection online with their new image platform
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
The GLAM-E Lab worked with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales to bring thousands of public domain images from their collection online with their new image platform
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨
An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
🧵
1/
An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
🧵
1/
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨
An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
🧵
1/
An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets.
A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation!
🧵
1/
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Sent to me by a friend.
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sent to me by a friend.
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If you missed our big event on Sep. 25—"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"—fear not!
@nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos!
Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...
@nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos!
Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...
Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York
www.nyuengelberg.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If you missed our big event on Sep. 25—"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"—fear not!
@nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos!
Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...
@nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos!
Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...
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I shared NEW DATA about what licenses people have used for @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified hardware since 2016
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/10...
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/10...
The Most Popular Open Source Hardware Licenses (2016-2025)
I put things here so they are on the internet
michaelweinberg.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I shared NEW DATA about what licenses people have used for @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified hardware since 2016
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/10...
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/10...
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Pam Samuelson, Matt Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, Ed Lee, and I filed an amicus in Thomson v. Ross. We urged the court of appeals to reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment to Thomson, and to hold that use of headnotes in AI training is fair use. drive.google.com/file/d/1zUot...
Ross_amicus 9-27 pdf.pdf
drive.google.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Pam Samuelson, Matt Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, Ed Lee, and I filed an amicus in Thomson v. Ross. We urged the court of appeals to reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment to Thomson, and to hold that use of headnotes in AI training is fair use. drive.google.com/file/d/1zUot...
Check out the new NYT op-doc from Knowing Machines' @katecrawford.bsky.social on the environmental impact of AI:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Check out the new NYT op-doc from Knowing Machines' @katecrawford.bsky.social on the environmental impact of AI:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
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Great Jotwell post by @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social on Michael Goodyear's article "Common-Law Notice and Takedown" ip.jotwell.com/the-future-o...
The Future of Notice and Takedown? - Intellectual Property
Michael Goodyear, Common Law Notice-and-Takedown, __ NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (April 25, 2025).Graeme DinwoodieAs Michael Goodyear notes in Common Law Notice-...
ip.jotwell.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great Jotwell post by @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social on Michael Goodyear's article "Common-Law Notice and Takedown" ip.jotwell.com/the-future-o...
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So glad to welcome my former student back to NYU as a faculty member. Circle of life.
@cmorten.bsky.social returns to NYU Law this fall. He brings with him the Science, Health, and Information Clinic, which provides legal services to researchers, patients, consumer groups, and others in the health and science space: ow.ly/gcj550X1EkL
Need to Know
Christopher Morten ’15 acknowledges that becoming a law professor wasn’t his original ambition: he first planned to become a research scientist, investigating cures for cancer or infectious diseases—“...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So glad to welcome my former student back to NYU as a faculty member. Circle of life.
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Andrew Weissman and I discussed the TikTok ban, and, in particular, how Trump would leverage it to do many bad things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7O...
Respectfully Dissent—The TikTok Ban
YouTube video by NYU School of Law
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Andrew Weissman and I discussed the TikTok ban, and, in particular, how Trump would leverage it to do many bad things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7O...
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Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment!
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Public pharma event next week!
Thurs Sep 25, 5:30!
IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom!
A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!
Thurs Sep 25, 5:30!
IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom!
A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!
Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
September 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Public pharma event next week!
Thurs Sep 25, 5:30!
IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom!
A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!
Thurs Sep 25, 5:30!
IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom!
A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!
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New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰
www.404media.co/librarians-a...
www.404media.co/librarians-a...
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! 🥰
www.404media.co/librarians-a...
www.404media.co/librarians-a...
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Was it even a question that I needed to buy this? I'm excited to build this for my office and have a working chocolate waterfall and mini Oompa-Loompas (and maybe write a 3rd piece of scholarship on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? 🤔First 2 pieces are linked below) www.lego.com/en-us/produc...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 21360 | Ideas | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
Fantastic Willy Wonka gift for movie lovers
www.lego.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Was it even a question that I needed to buy this? I'm excited to build this for my office and have a working chocolate waterfall and mini Oompa-Loompas (and maybe write a 3rd piece of scholarship on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? 🤔First 2 pieces are linked below) www.lego.com/en-us/produc...
Consumers are all over the law: consumer welfare in antitrust, consumer confusion in TM, consumer understanding of art in copyright. But what is The Consumer, really?
On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....
www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....
www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
Conspicuous Consumers: An Engelberg Center Symposium
Over exposed and under explored, consumers play critical roles across a range of legal doctrines. We're giving them their due.
www.eventbrite.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Consumers are all over the law: consumer welfare in antitrust, consumer confusion in TM, consumer understanding of art in copyright. But what is The Consumer, really?
On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....
www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....
www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
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Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
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I kept needing it, so I wrote a very quick guide to picking an open source hardware license (you know, if you don't feel like actually reading the licenses, which is totally cool):
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...
Which CERN Open Hardware License Should I Use?
I put things here so they are on the internet
michaelweinberg.org
August 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I kept needing it, so I wrote a very quick guide to picking an open source hardware license (you know, if you don't feel like actually reading the licenses, which is totally cool):
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...
michaelweinberg.org/blog/2025/08...
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Thanks to @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social @design-law.bsky.social and friends for organizing this IP Summer Camp event and for helpful and constructive feedback on my project with @cjsprigman.bsky.social on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents"
Looking forward to continuing our Chicago-Kent IP Summer Camp series today with Jeanne Fromer & Christopher Sprigman on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents" (moderated by yours truly).
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Thanks to @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social @design-law.bsky.social and friends for organizing this IP Summer Camp event and for helpful and constructive feedback on my project with @cjsprigman.bsky.social on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents"