Brief Thoughts on AI, Law, and Education
[Originally posted to LinkedIn on August 13, 2025 and reposted here for archival purposes.] This is a law/legal profession/law schools… Read More »Brief Thoughts on AI, Law, and Education
Law & Technology
Two Cheers for Copyright
Some people are cheering and some people are shrugging in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last week in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands.[1] The Court held that designs for Varsity Brands’ cheerleading uniforms may be protected as copyrighted works against unauthorized copying by its upstart rival, Star Athletica.Read More »Two Cheers for Copyright
Reading List: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Law and entrepreneurship? Law and innovation? Read these three pieces in a single sitting:Read More »Reading List: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Posts Will Resume At Madisonian.net
I’ve been gone for too long.
#WHFrontiers: Pittsburgh’s Innovation Story in Full
Free download: “Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now,” http://ssrn.com/abstract=1858741
That’s a full and complete account of innovation and other things in Pittsburgh today, or the good, the bad, and the ugly about Pittsburgh’s continuing journey on the road to recovery post-steel collapse, economically speaking and otherwise. Anyone coming to Pittsburgh or coming to Pittsburgh’s story via a line arguing that Pittsburgh’s innovation is in high gear and that Pittsburgh is a model region for tech, tech policy, and urban reinvention should read further. Good things are happening in Pittsburgh, but there is more going on — more innovation than innovation in tech, and things that aren’t so innovative and that aren’t so good — than are captured in the headlines.
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