The Right To Invent Tomorrow

 Aidan McCullen is an innovation leader.  Gifted entrepreneur, speaker, university lecturer, and former professional rugby player, he is the founder and host of The Innovation Show.  I was delighted to be Aidan's guest this past week.  We had a wonderful conversation together about roles the law plays, and could better play, in fostering innovation, especially in its open, user, collaborative, and free flavours.  Along the way, we discovered unexpected commonalities in ancestry and interests.  Here is my appearance on Aidan's The Innovation Show:

Thanks again, Aidan, for the golden opportunity to meet and speak with you about innovation and how to make it thrive.  I look forward to crossing paths with you again soon.

Maith thú, a dheartháir!

ChatGPT And Works Scholarly

 In 2023, my colleagues, Professors Bill Tomlinson and Rebecca Black, and I published an article in the SMU Law Review entitled "ChatGPT and Works Scholarly:  Best Practices and Legal Pitfalls in Writing with AI".  It discusses the power and pitfalls of co-authoring with AI.  Morgan Kromer, of The College Fix, covered our article, and a fun chat he had with me, on February 19, 2025.

Should California Stay Or Should It Go?

I had the good fortune of being interviewed by journalist Elizabeth Weise for her article, written with Josh Peter, today (January 24, 2025) in USA Today, entitled "A free California? Trump visits as initiative to leave U.S. cleared to gather signatures".  Her interest was sparked by an article Prof. Bill Tomlinson and I published in 2020, entitled "Fault Lines: An Empirical Legal Study of California Secession", available here.   Here's the article by Weise and Peter:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/24/country-of-california-secession-newsom-trump/77907859007/

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The conundrum California faces is nicely summarized by The Clash, in its song, "Should I stay or should I go?":

Whatever route California decides to take, it will not easy:  "If I go, there will be trouble.  And, if I stay, it will be double."

Third Time's A Trademark

 Matthew Kelly wrote a very nice article about how trademark law might affect use of the phrase "Three Peat" to describe a third consecutive Kansas City Super Bowl victory in February 2025.  To kick off the trademark issues implicated by "Three Peat", Matthew interviewed, and quoted, me in the article.