Christopher Sprigman - Podcast Details

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The Daily Beast PodcastDems Need More Viral ‘D*** Pic’ Moments If They Want to Stop MuskOn this episode of The New Abnormal, California Rep. Robert Garcia’s Elon Musk “d--- pic” during a DOGE hearing proved that some Democrats know how to counter Republican rhetoric, so why are the party’s longtime stalwarts having such a difficult time stepping aside? Plus! How NYU School of Law’s Christopher Sprigman is leading a fight to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing personal data. Then, Buddhist scholar Lama Rod Owens discusses how to keep a level head in trying times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-141h 02

A Fashion Law Dinner Party with Fashion by FeliciaA Food & Fashion Law Dinner Party: The Expressive Elements of Food & Fashion Heritage and Legal Protections for Food & Fashion between Trademark Law and Geographical IndicationsIn the first Fashion Law Dinner Party of 2025, inspired by your New Year's resolutions related to food, we concentrate on the heritage and legal aspects of food and fashion collaborations. How can a fashion brand identity’s match a food product? Can trademark rights in a fashion logo applied to leather goods, and clothing, be expanded to food products as a new category of goods? What about place and a brand’s heritage - are there links to certain territories that can help communicate the authenticity of a fashion brand’s food products to consumers? The dinner party conversation starts...2025-01-1058 min

AI lab by information labs1:1 with Pamela SamuelsonIn this podcast Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley School of Law) & the AI lab ‘decrypt’ Artificial Intelligence from a policy making point of view📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro⏲️[02:59] Q1 - The Deepdive: AI Decrypted | What significant practical obstacles in complying with a transparency obligation about copyrighted works in training data do you identify?⏲️[10:50] Q2 - The Deepdive: AI Decrypted | Looking at the disassembly or tokenization in the training process, can you explain why “generative AI models are generally not designed to copy training data; they are designed to learn from the data at an abstract and uncopyrightable level...2024-01-1738 min

The Bench PressCan Congress Strip the Supreme Court's Power?This week, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman joins The Bench Press to discuss an innovative way to confront the increasing power and radicalism of the Supreme Court: jurisdiction stripping. Can Congress take away the Supreme Court's ability to review hot-button issues entirely? And how would such a major move fit in to our constitutional design?Follow The Bench Presshttp://twitter.com/benchpresspodhttp://instagram.com/benchpresspodhttp://tiktok.com/benchpresspodFollow Bobby and Jesshttp://twitter.com/robertjdenaulthttp://twitter.com/jesskcoleman 2023-06-2648 min

Our Curious AmalgamA New Syllabus For Antitrust Class? Meet the Authors of the New Open Source U.S. Antitrust Law CasebookLegal textbooks have always been expensive but these days, the cost of a new commercially-published antitrust law casebook can range from $300 to $500. What if a high-quality casebook were available at little or no cost? With the support of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, NYU Law School Professors Christopher Sprigman and Daniel Francis recently completed the world’s first openly-licensed antitrust law casebook. Listen to this episode as they talk with co-hosts Alicia Downey and Sarah Zhang about this important project and whether eliminating the expense of traditional casebooks might lead to an increase in law students taking antitrust and po...2023-06-1231 min

Democracy in DangerThe Justices Have No Robes [Rebroadcast]The high court’s conservatives insist that strict readings of the U.S. Constitution have compelled them to strike down popular policies like abortion rights and campaign finance limits. Well, legal expert Christopher Sprigman has some news for these robed rogues. Buried in the law of the land is the key to reining in the federal judiciary. All Congress has to do is act, he says. And all the people have to do is demystify the courts. Join us for our last rebroadcast of the 2023 winter break.2023-01-2531 min

Engelberg Center Live!Fake Symposium: Fake Goods and the Problem of Authenticity- Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law- Sari Mazzurco, Yale Law School- Mark McKenna, UCLA School of Law - Julie Zerbo, The Fashion Law- Christopher Sprigman, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (moderator) 2022-10-2057 min

Engelberg Center Live!Fake Symposium: Framing DiscussionToday's episode is the framing discussion that served as an introduction to the Fake Symposium. It features Engelberg Center Faculty Co-Directors Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman, as well as Executive Director Michael Weinberg. It was recorded on September 22, 2022.2022-10-1322 min

Democracy in DangerThe Justices Have No RobesThe high court’s conservatives insist that strict readings of the U.S. Constitution have compelled them to strike down popular policies like abortion rights and campaign finance limits. Well, legal expert Christopher Sprigman has some news for these robed rogues. Buried in the law of the land is the key to reining in the federal judiciary. All Congress has to do is act, he says. And all the people have to do is demystify the courts — stripping them of an imperious aura they’ve too long enjoyed.2022-09-2130 min

wtjuThe Justices Have No RobesThe high court’s conservatives insist that strict readings of the U.S. Constitution have compelled them to strike down popular policies like abortion rights and campaign finance limits. Well, legal expert Christopher Sprigman has some news for these robed rogues. Buried in the law of the land is the key to reining in the federal judiciary. All Congress has to do is act, he says. And all the people have to do is demystify the courts — stripping them of an imperious aura they’ve too long enjoyed.2022-09-2130 min

Supreme MythsChristopher Sprigman Professor Christopher Sprigman and Professor Eric Segall talk impeachment, democracy, the proper of the Supreme Court in our politics, and Chris’ excellent new article arguing Congress can and should enact legislation stripping the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over some of our most contentious constitutional law questions. 2021-01-2758 min

Ipse DixitChristopher Jon Sprigman on Jurisdiction Stripping & Constitutional ChangeIn this episode, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, discusses his article "Congress's Article III Power and the Process of Constitutional Change," which will be published in the NYU Law Review. Sprigman begins by explaining how Article III of the Constitution permits Congress to drastically limit the Supreme Court's jurisdiction. He argues that Congress could effect constitutional change by prohibiting the Supreme Court from reviewing the constitutionality of legislation. And he suggests that it would make constitutional law more democratically legitimate. Sprigman is on Twitter at @CJSprigman.This episode was...2020-08-1433 min

Talking law and economics at ETH ZurichDiscussing copyright and creative incentives with Prof. Christopher SprigmanIn this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, Daniela Sele is discussing copyright and creative incentives with Prof. Christopher Sprigman from NYU School of Law. Paper References: Copyright and Creative Incentives: What We Know (and Don't) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3095740 Audio Credits: Trailer music: AllttA by AllttA https://youtu.be/ZawLOcbQZ2w 2019-11-0619 min

Ipse DixitChristopher Sprigman on Data-Driven AuthorshipIn this episode, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, discusses his new article "The Second Digital Disruption: Data, Algorithms & Authorship in the 21st Century," which he co-authored with Kal Raustiala. Sprigman describes his consequentialist approach to copyright law and policy, and uses it to focus on recent developments in the production of works of authorship. Specifically, he explains how the pornography industry has collected and managed data about the preferences of its customers to provide them with the content they want to consume, and determine what kinds of content to produce. He reflects on how...2019-01-2133 min

Musonomics PodcastMusic in the time of PoliticsPresidential politics is in the air! Hot on the heels of Super Tuesday we delve into the world of presidential campaign music. We take a trip back in time to look at how music has been used in American presidential campaigns from Washington to Obama and beyond, with lessons from the current election cycle and interviews with Ben Sisario of the New York Times on the impact that music can have on a presidential campaign, and entertainment lawyer Joel Schoenfeld and NYU Law School Professor Christopher Sprigman on what happens when music is used without the artist’s and so...2018-04-0529 min

Oral ArgumentEpisode 147: Busting FamineJust Joe and Christian, coming to you after a terrible week. We talk guns, ex-Judge Posner's book and humility, the right rules for disabled stoplights, the closing of a coffeehouse, and airplane seat reclining behavior. This show’s links: Oral Argument 101: Tug of War Richard Posner, Reforming the Federal Judiciary Steven Lubet, Richard Posner, Unedited (Part One) Zoran Tasic, Reforming Richard Posner Oral Argument 32: Go Figure (on Judge Posner's gay marriage opinion in Baskin) and Oral Argument 131: Because of Sex (featuring discussion with Anthony Kreis about Judge Posner's Hively opinion) WINIR How do you pronounce Utrecht? Th...2017-10-061h 03

Oral ArgumentEpisode 92: Deficit PeacockWe’re joined by tax scholar Daniel Hemel to discuss a puzzling problem. Why don’t presidents use their regulatory powers to affect tax law like they do to affect the law in many other areas? But before that, we talk about Christian’s birthday disappointment (0:01:15) and law reviews and the Bluebook (0:06:47). Then we talk Joe’s Oral Argument cruise proposal and segue to today’s topic (0:21:32), a president’s power to tax (0:27:19), an example of “carried interest” (the tax issue that flared up in the 2012 presidential campaign) (0:37:12), Daniel’s game-theoretic model and discussion of hawks, peacocks, debt ceilings, and presidential h...2016-03-181h 23

Oral ArgumentEpisode 91: Baby BlueIn a world where a single power controlled the language of justice itself, one man (well, several people and a bunch of students, but anyway) rose up to … produce a free guide to the standardized practices of legal citation. Copyright scholar Chris Sprigman joins us to talk about two of his projects: Baby Blue, the open guide to legal citation, and the Restatement of Copyright. Our conversation: about Baby Blue (0:01:33), what in the Bluebook might be copyrightable (0:10:07), trademark and the two manuals’ names and colors (0:23:44), simplification of citation (0:39:43), and the Restatement of Copyright (0:56:52). This show’s links: Ch...2016-03-051h 14

MusonomicsMusic in the time of PoliticsPresidential politics is in the air! Hot on the heels of Super Tuesday we delve into the world of presidential campaign music. We take a trip back in time to look at how music has been used in American presidential campaigns from Washington to Obama and beyond, with lessons from the current election cycle. With Ben Sisario of the New York Times on the impact that music can have on a presidential campaign, and entertainment lawyer Joel Schoenfeld and NYU Law School Professor Christopher Sprigman on what happens when music is used without the artist's and songwriter's permission.2016-03-0229 min

Oral ArgumentEpisode 34: There’s Not Really a Best FontWe discuss the role of design in the practice of law with renowned typographer-lawyer Matthew Butterick. The conversation ranges among very practical tips for making better documents, why so many legal documents are poorly designed, why lawyers should care about design, and what it even means to design a document. Matthew explains why IRS forms are some of the most well-designed legal documents around. Also, Joe manages to connect (positively) enjoying physical books with smelling gasoline. This show’s links: About Matthew Butterick, also here and @mbutterick on Twitter Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Knee Defender, Barro’s Error, and...2014-09-271h 25

Center for Internet and SocietyChristopher Sprigman - Hearsay Culture Show #173 - KZSU-FM (Stanford)A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Christopher Sprigman of Virginia Law, co-author of The Knockoff Economy. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.2012-10-0100 min

Kinsella on LibertyExamples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual PropertyI will collect here links to various articles or discussions about how authors, etc. can make money without relying on the copyright monopoly model. Please feel free to email suggestions or add them to the comments; I'll update this post from time to time. “Innovations that Thrive without IP,” StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 9, 2010) Francis Ford Coppola, copyfighter Without Intellectual Property (MisesWiki) ("How would the world look like without Intellectual Property? What are the current success stories and possible alternatives if some or all forms of IP were repealed (or became unenforceable)?") Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free s...2010-07-282h 22