Andres Sawicki
@apublicgood.bsky.social
Professor of Law
Director, Data Ethics + Society @ Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing
Director, Business of Innovation, Law, & Technology @ Miami Law
SSRN: ssrn.com/author=152271
Director, Data Ethics + Society @ Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing
Director, Business of Innovation, Law, & Technology @ Miami Law
SSRN: ssrn.com/author=152271
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Andres Sawicki
@apublicgood.bsky.social
· Mar 12
The Law of Creativity?
<p>What are the barriers to progress? For decades, IP scholars had an easy answer: suboptimal private investment in public goods. Recent work on the psychology
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Great news!! It's (digital) publication day for "The Law of Creativity?"
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CW: progress is too slow
Me: progress can be too slow *or* too fast
Article here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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CW: progress is too slow
Me: progress can be too slow *or* too fast
Article here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Thread 👇
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tfw your students drop off handmade biscottis before class
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
tfw your students drop off handmade biscottis before class
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Proud to be an MIT alum. This is what it looks like when an institution stands up for its values.
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
Dear members of the MIT community,
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October 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Proud to be an MIT alum. This is what it looks like when an institution stands up for its values.
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Professor Andres Sawicki received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how terms and conditions from over 100 generative AI firms impact user behavior and market competition.
Professor Sawicki Awarded Grant to Study Generative AI | University of Miami School of Law
The grant was awarded by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote economic growth.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Professor Andres Sawicki received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how terms and conditions from over 100 generative AI firms impact user behavior and market competition.
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Thanks to David Zimmer for work on Jonathan Masur’s & my amicus brief in support of cert in MSN v. Novartis, drawing on our “Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law” article to explain why the Fed Cir’s approach to disclosure for after-arising technologies is incoherent www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law | The University of Chicago Law Review
Since its inception, patent law has required that inventors publicly disclose information about their inventions in exchange for receiving patent rights. This foundational requirement is policed throu...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to David Zimmer for work on Jonathan Masur’s & my amicus brief in support of cert in MSN v. Novartis, drawing on our “Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law” article to explain why the Fed Cir’s approach to disclosure for after-arising technologies is incoherent www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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🚨Meet the AI RFP #EGgrantee(s)! 🚨
First up, @apublicgood.bsky.social and John Newman will "study the terms and conditions of more than 100 genAI firms." Their project would be the first large-scale effort to document this issue "systematically."
Learn more👇
equitablegrowth.org/grants/compe...
First up, @apublicgood.bsky.social and John Newman will "study the terms and conditions of more than 100 genAI firms." Their project would be the first large-scale effort to document this issue "systematically."
Learn more👇
equitablegrowth.org/grants/compe...
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨Meet the AI RFP #EGgrantee(s)! 🚨
First up, @apublicgood.bsky.social and John Newman will "study the terms and conditions of more than 100 genAI firms." Their project would be the first large-scale effort to document this issue "systematically."
Learn more👇
equitablegrowth.org/grants/compe...
First up, @apublicgood.bsky.social and John Newman will "study the terms and conditions of more than 100 genAI firms." Their project would be the first large-scale effort to document this issue "systematically."
Learn more👇
equitablegrowth.org/grants/compe...
Super grateful for this grant from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social!!
With John Newman, we'll explore the antitrust implications of genAI terms of service.
GenAI's social & economic impact is growing fast. We aim to ensure that incumbents' ToS don't raise anticompetitive barriers to entry.
With John Newman, we'll explore the antitrust implications of genAI terms of service.
GenAI's social & economic impact is growing fast. We aim to ensure that incumbents' ToS don't raise anticompetitive barriers to entry.
📢 Today, we announce a new cohort of grantees studying how artificial intelligence and new technology can support workers and promote competition across the U.S. economy.
Stay tuned in the coming days as we feature the grantees and their projects.
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Stay tuned in the coming days as we feature the grantees and their projects.
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Equitable Growth announces funding for research on the impact of AI on U.S. workers and competition
Equitable Growth announces a new cohort of grantees studying how artificial intelligence and new technology can support workers and promote competition across the U.S. economy.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Super grateful for this grant from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social!!
With John Newman, we'll explore the antitrust implications of genAI terms of service.
GenAI's social & economic impact is growing fast. We aim to ensure that incumbents' ToS don't raise anticompetitive barriers to entry.
With John Newman, we'll explore the antitrust implications of genAI terms of service.
GenAI's social & economic impact is growing fast. We aim to ensure that incumbents' ToS don't raise anticompetitive barriers to entry.
Want to live & work in a tropical paradise? Join us!!
Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropriate candidates will be considered for a joint appt with our Institute for Data Science & Computing.
Pls contact me if you have any q's. Share widely!!
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Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropriate candidates will be considered for a joint appt with our Institute for Data Science & Computing.
Pls contact me if you have any q's. Share widely!!
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July 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Want to live & work in a tropical paradise? Join us!!
Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropriate candidates will be considered for a joint appt with our Institute for Data Science & Computing.
Pls contact me if you have any q's. Share widely!!
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Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropriate candidates will be considered for a joint appt with our Institute for Data Science & Computing.
Pls contact me if you have any q's. Share widely!!
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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My article with Peter Henderson explaining why AI companies will find it challenging to enforce their terms of use against competitors who distill their models and others who use them in ways they don't like is now published in the Indiana Law Journal.
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The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions
Artificial intelligence (AI) model creators commonly attach restrictive terms of use to both their models and their outputs. These terms typically prohibit acti
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June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My article with Peter Henderson explaining why AI companies will find it challenging to enforce their terms of use against competitors who distill their models and others who use them in ways they don't like is now published in the Indiana Law Journal.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Judge Alsup has the first true opinion on fair use for generative AI in Bartz v. Anthropic. He holds that AI training is fair use, and so is buying books to scan them, but that downloading pirated copies of books for an internal training-data database is not fair use. 🧵
🚨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
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June 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Judge Alsup has the first true opinion on fair use for generative AI in Bartz v. Anthropic. He holds that AI training is fair use, and so is buying books to scan them, but that downloading pirated copies of books for an internal training-data database is not fair use. 🧵
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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
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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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🚨Call for Papers: Miami Law & Finance Workshop, Fall 25
I am excited to invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop! Abstracts should be sent to us—nikita.aggarwal@miami.edu, cbradley@law.miami.edu and ggeorgiev@miami.edu—by Friday July 18th, 2025.
I am excited to invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop! Abstracts should be sent to us—nikita.aggarwal@miami.edu, cbradley@law.miami.edu and ggeorgiev@miami.edu—by Friday July 18th, 2025.
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚨Call for Papers: Miami Law & Finance Workshop, Fall 25
I am excited to invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop! Abstracts should be sent to us—nikita.aggarwal@miami.edu, cbradley@law.miami.edu and ggeorgiev@miami.edu—by Friday July 18th, 2025.
I am excited to invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop! Abstracts should be sent to us—nikita.aggarwal@miami.edu, cbradley@law.miami.edu and ggeorgiev@miami.edu—by Friday July 18th, 2025.
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More than 500 general counsel have signed on to a group supporting the rule of law and law firms under attack by Trump.
Just in case the firms that capitulated thought they were doing what their clients wanted . . .
www.law.com/therecorder/...
Just in case the firms that capitulated thought they were doing what their clients wanted . . .
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GC Group Championing Rule of Law Tops 500 Members Just Days After Launch
"We can no longer trust that law firms will put their professional ethics and their clients' long-term interests first over political influence, fear of retribution, and their own short-term interests," General Counsels United stated.
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May 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
More than 500 general counsel have signed on to a group supporting the rule of law and law firms under attack by Trump.
Just in case the firms that capitulated thought they were doing what their clients wanted . . .
www.law.com/therecorder/...
Just in case the firms that capitulated thought they were doing what their clients wanted . . .
www.law.com/therecorder/...
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Fellow law profs, I'm curious: When do you generally have to make your casebook selections for the fall semester? For the spring? Thanks in advance!
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Fellow law profs, I'm curious: When do you generally have to make your casebook selections for the fall semester? For the spring? Thanks in advance!
Honored to have been a finalist for the Provost's Teaching Awards @univmiami.bsky.social.
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School of Law faculty celebrated in the Provost's Awards
The annual awards honored the work of University of Miami faculty and staff members using innovative techniques in class and through their research and scholarship, including several from the School o...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Honored to have been a finalist for the Provost's Teaching Awards @univmiami.bsky.social.
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Somebody New
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A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude.
This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔
As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying.
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This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔
As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude.
This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔
As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying.
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This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔
As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying.
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How can AI advance @univmiami.bsky.social's core research and teaching missions? I'll try to answer that question on today's panel at IDSC Computing Day. Join us!
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Computing Day 2025
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April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
How can AI advance @univmiami.bsky.social's core research and teaching missions? I'll try to answer that question on today's panel at IDSC Computing Day. Join us!
events.miami.edu/event/comput...
events.miami.edu/event/comput...
I'm one of 775 profs supporting Susman Godfrey against the admin's unconstitutional attacks. "A republic, if you can keep it."
Grateful to @prmalone.bsky.social Pam Karlan @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, Norm Spaulding, & @marklemley.bsky.social for their leadership.
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Grateful to @prmalone.bsky.social Pam Karlan @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, Norm Spaulding, & @marklemley.bsky.social for their leadership.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'm one of 775 profs supporting Susman Godfrey against the admin's unconstitutional attacks. "A republic, if you can keep it."
Grateful to @prmalone.bsky.social Pam Karlan @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, Norm Spaulding, & @marklemley.bsky.social for their leadership.
law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
Grateful to @prmalone.bsky.social Pam Karlan @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, Norm Spaulding, & @marklemley.bsky.social for their leadership.
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Plumerias coming in nicely . . .
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Plumerias coming in nicely . . .