Ipse Dixit

In this episode, Michael Assis, a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center, discusses his scholarship on art, digital art, and NFTs, including his dissertation in progress, Decentralized Objects: Non-fungible Tokens in the Age of Web3. Among other things, Assis explains what NFTs are and how they relate to the history and theory of art and digital art. He discusses how the concept of authenticity has evolved over time and what NFTs can tell us about the future of authenticity. Assis is on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

At the 1977 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Barbara Ringer, the eighth Register of Copyrights, gave a presentation titled "Implementing the Copyright Law: What Librarians Should Know," in which she explained how the Copyright Act of 1976, of which she was the principle drafter, would affect libraries and librarians. This is a recording of her presentation.Many thanks to Zvi S. Rosen for finding, digitizing, and providing this recording.

In this episode, Zvi Rosen, Assistant Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School and incoming Associate Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, discusses his draft article "AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself?" Rosen explains how copyright law and the Copyright Office have wrestled with concept of copyright in computer-generated works, beginning with the first computer-generated works submitted for copyright registration in the 1950s. He argues that the Copyright Office of the 1950s and 1960s provided answers to those vexing questions that are still relevant today in relation to AI-generated works. Rosen is on Twitter and Bluesky. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

In this episode, Jill Hasday, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, discusses her new book, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality," which is published by Oxford University Press. Hasday explains how men have historically used rhetoric to minimize the role of women in claiming rights for women and discount the need for a women's rights movement. She discusses many different historical episodes, including the fight for the 19th Amendment, inclusion of sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the ongoing struggle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to show how women were systematically written out of women's history. And she explains why it's important to commemorate the role of women in order to continue the fight for equal rights. Hasday is on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

In this episode, Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University School of Law, discusses his draft article "Digitizing the Fisc." Grey begins by explain how the Trump administration and Elon Musk have seized unilateral control of the administrative state through federal payment systems. He explains how those systems work and why their current structure makes it impossible for Congress to prevent a determined president from hobbling the administrative state. He proposes an alternative structure for the public fisc, using digital currency system managed by Congress. He explains how that alternative system would enable Congress to assert its full power over the budget and protect the government from a rogue executive. Grey is on Twitter and Bluesky. You can find more information on his website.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

In this episode, Dan Rabinowitz, founder and CEO of Pre/Dicta, a litigation analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of lawsuits, explains how the platform works, why it is useful, and who might find value in using it.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.