Publications

1. Copyright’s Nominal Humanism, Loy. L.A. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). Featured on MLex/LexisNexis, Private Law Theory, AI Law Blawg, Legal Theory Blog (“Highly recommended. Download it while it’s hot!”).
2. Copyright Doctrine Before the Tribunal of Science: A Response to Professor Silbey, 72 J. Copyright Soc’y 142 (2025). Featured on Legal Theory Blog, Private Law Theory.
3. Impossibility of Artificial Inventors, 137 Intell. Prop. F. 39 (2024), reprinted in 16 UC L. Sci. & Tech. L.J. 73 (2024). Featured on Patently-O, AI Law Blawg.
4. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and Regulatory Competition, 99 N.D. L. Rev. 107 (2024). Cited in the UK Law Commission’s Scoping Paper on DAOs.
5. Impossibility of Emergent Works’ Protection in U.S. and EU Copyright Law, 25 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2023). Cited in U.S. House Judiciary testimony, a European Parliament study, and a Singapore IPO report. Featured on Ipse Dixit, The IPKat, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Tampa Bay Times.

• Courts Won’t Settle the Fight Over AI and Creative Work: Politics Will, Bull. At. Sci. (2026).
• Confronting Empty Humanism in AI Policy, Tech Policy Press (Oct. 3, 2025). Featured on Legal Theory Blog (“Highly Recommended”).
• Brief for Amici Curiae in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence (3d Cir. 2025) (with Brian L. Frye & Jess Miers).
• Thaler v. Perlmutter: Human Authors at the Center of Copyright?, Kluwer Copyright Blog (Apr. 8, 2025).
• Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Copyright Law, RAND Corporation (Nov. 20, 2024) (with Geoffrey McGovern & Karlyn D. Stanley).
• Contradictions of Computer-Generated Works’ Protection, Kluwer Copyright Blog (Nov. 6, 2023).

• Empirical Analysis of USCO AI Registrations (with Roger Skalbeck; data collection in progress).