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Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor, NYU Law. IP, antitrust, comparative con law. ssrn.com/author=370802 Member, Lex Lumina PLLC. lex-lumina.com

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My new piece for NY Magazine's Intelligencer about the Neri Oxman and Claudine Gay plagiarism scandals, and how they show that we need new rules about plagiarism before plagiarism witch-hunts become a regular feature of our messed-up politics. nymag.com/intelligence...

It’s Time for New Rules on Plagiarismnymag.com Bill Ackman helped bring down Gay. Oxman, his wife, is now under attack. This system isn’t working.

Trump denies having read Mein Kampf. I am comforted.

When the Supreme Court accepts cert the first thing I want to see is a notice that Justice Thomas--whose wife helped foment the insurrection that the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified Donald Trump for leading--has recused himself.

NEW: Colorado Supreme Court holds that Trump is DISQUALIFIED from the presidency under the 14th Amendment www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/fi...

New academic work: Incorporating Uncertainty in Trademark Surveys: Do Respondents Really Know What They Are Talking About? 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Incorporating Uncertainty in Trademark Surveys: Do Respondents Really Know What They Are Talking Abo...papers.ssrn.com In this brief commentary, we summarize our recent experimental work related to the current state of trademark surveys. In particular, we identify and present em

Just read through the Sup Ct's new ethics rules. Canon 4.D.3 says that "[a] Justice should comply w/ the restrictions on acceptance of gifts and the prohibition on solicitation of gifts set forth in the Judicial Conference Regulations on Gifts now in effect." Ok, but ... 1/

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i'm michael barbaro. this is the daily.

“we visited the golden eagle diner to find out how the moms of liberty were told to eat shit despite president bidens worrying poll numbers”

After the fall of Roe, I predicted that democracy would eventually guarantee abortion access in most states. Tonight, Ohio adds to the string of electoral victories for pro-choice forces--abortion rights are now enshrined in ruby-red Ohio's constitution. 1/ www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11...

Election Day 2023: Ohio Enshrines Right to Abortion; Kentucky Re-elects Democratic Governorwww.nytimes.com Ohio became the latest in a string of states to establish a constitutional right to abortion. Gov. Andy Beshear fended off Daniel Cameron in deep-red Kentucky, and Cherelle Parker will be Philadelphia...

New academic writing ... Statutory Damages under the Copyright Act: An Empirical Study. Co-authored with Ben Brady and Roy Germano. 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Statutory Damages Under the Copyright Act: An Empirical Studypapers.ssrn.com In this Article, we are interested in understanding what courts do in copyright infringement cases when awarding statutory damages, and whether, given the absen

New academic writing: Cultural Appropriation and the Global Fashion Industry (co-authored with Kal Raustiala). 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Cultural Appropriation and the Global Fashion Industrypapers.ssrn.com The global fashion industry is increasingly subject to accusations of cultural appropriation. We analyze why the fashion industry’s practices—in particular, its

Why does The NY Times refer to “everyday Americans” to mean anyone who isn’t rich? It’s not even that it’s necessarily offensive. More that it’s nonsensical.

Why aren't we talking about this every day?

You are looking at Carl Jung's Kachelofen.

I'm listening to some guy named James Homan from the Washington Post blathering that the huge motorcade delivering Donald Trump to his arraignment is something you wouldn't see in most other countries b/c "they don't have the rule of law." 1/

Really happy to see the final version of this in print: Intellectual Property and the Manufacture of Aura (with my friend and co-author Stefan Bechtold). 1/ jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/artic...

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It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

Is there anything Albany does for NYC that NYC could not do far better for itself?

Why There Are Still So Few Places That (Legally) Sell Marijuana in New Yorkwww.nytimes.com Court challenges and bureaucratic roadblocks have created hurdles for would-be cannabis sellers in the state.

Most awkward Americans are nice. So, no.

Awkward Americans see themselves in Ron DeSantiswww.washingtonpost.com But do they like what they see?

The NY Times has this habit of writing puff pieces about NYC-area suburban towns without spending even a moment wondering why there are no black people in them. 1/

Manasquan, N.J.: A Beach Town Where Kids ‘Have a Little More Freedom’www.nytimes.com This shoreline borough is becoming more polished, but residents still cherish its old-fashioned vibe: “That’s the cool part about growing up here.”

Looking forward to seeing if the Fulton County prosecutors will make good on their promise to require Donald Trump to endure the indignities incident to arrest that non-celebrity criminal defendants are obliged to endure.

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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

Here is a long NY Times story about a German Shepherd that lives at an UES French bookstore and has bitten and seriously injured several smaller dogs--and has now killed one--and ... 1/

A Quaint French Bookstore’s Violent Dog Problem Turns Deadlywww.nytimes.com The owner of a children’s bookshop on the Upper East Side had a German shepherd, Syko, who was known to attack other pets. His latest victim, Baby the toy poodle, died.

60's-era environmentalism is bad for the environment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/08/offshore-wind-energy-east-coast/?fbclid=IwAR2hAOAUnpAosr8bFl1SWyrLm67FMBxSCBOFNOl1-tbuquSwxm0a3bFT1nY

The future of East Coast wind power could ride on this Jersey beach townwww.washingtonpost.com Many in Ocean City, NJ oppose a major wind farm to be built off their shores, and hope to create a template for blocking similar projects on the East Coast.

People who live in NYC have every right to be furious with NJ politicians who want to be able to free-ride on NYC's jobs market without paying for the congestion caused by car commuters from NJ.

In War on Congestion Pricing, Governor Turns to Courts and Trash Talkwww.nytimes.com A lawsuit that Gov. Philip Murphy of New Jersey has filed against New York’s congestion pricing plan has reignited a border war and led to charges of hypocrisy.

It's like Americans haven't heard about, don't believe in, or don't care about global warming and the suffering it will cause. https://jalopnik.com/trucks-and-suvs-are-now-over-80-percent-of-new-car-sale-1848427797

Trucks And SUVs Are Now Over 80 Percent Of New Car Sales In The U.S.jalopnik.com That figures to stay the same for January, JD Power says, a new record.

“Natural” wine is a disease. This is a Riesling, believe it or not. Centuries of perfecting a grape and a style of wine and these hippies turn it into nasty kombucha-tasting plonk.

Walking into this oversized fake Greek temple to give a talk about law.

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Oh FFS. Chris Christie trying to justify to you his SUPER LATE understanding of Trump’s intrinsic weasely nature. I CANNOT ROLL MY EYES VIGOROUSLY ENOUGH!!!

This editorial from the Newark Star-Ledger takes to task (by name and in plain language) the NJ politicians who whine about NYC congestion pricing but have done nothing to improve mass transit in their state. I love it.

Congestion pricing is coming. Stop the fearmongering | Editorialwww.nj.com 90% of NJ'ers who work in Manhattan use mass transit. Advocate for them.

Great article by a doctor on how private equity incursions into medicine are making everything worse for patients. Medicine should be far less marketized than it is, not more. /1 https://prospect.org/health/2023-07-31-my-life-in-corporate-medicine/

My Life in Corporate Medicineprospect.org Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients.

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There's not a majority on the Court with the spine for an actual constitutional showdown. All the blustering about ignoring a duly enacted ethics law is just positioning for the inevitable Republican filibuster of an ethics bill.

i’m generally not an accelerationist, but if Congress passes ethics rules and SCOTUS ignores them, it would force a lot of people to confront the scope of what’s happening with this Court. it’s not that it would cause a constitutional crisis as much as it would reveal that we’re already in one.