Chris Sprigman

Smithtown, where I was obliged to spend most of my childhood, is still R+162.3. (HT: @andylevy.net).

And like most moderate positions these days, it's insufficient. Expanding the court does little to address the real problem, which is that the supreme court has too much power. What we need are disempowering reforms. Those are ...

But it should not stop there. Congress should override the court's execrable and lawless gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Then override citizens united, and the entire rotten skein of decisions that have limited campaign finance regulation.

And like most moderate positions these days, it's insufficient. Expanding the court does little to address the real problem, which is that the supreme court has too much power. What we need are disempowering reforms. Those are ...

Congress and the President need to be willing to override supreme court decisions by ordinary legislation, and then strip jurisdiction to review the override.

And like most moderate positions these days, it's insufficient. Expanding the court does little to address the real problem, which is that the supreme court has too much power. What we need are disempowering reforms. Those are ...

"[P]aradoxically, as these brands have held themselves up as the epitome of aspiration and taste, they have also raised their prices to such levels that they are out of reach for almost everyone." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/s...

Cathy Gellis does a great job explaining yet another facet of Supreme Court corruption: they can’t hear important copyright cases now bc their million-dollar book deals conflict them out. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/s...

Dems gotta be willing to promise they will ignore Supreme Court’s lawless immunity ruling, ignore Trump pardons, prosecute, and jail. And then do it. Whatever the cost. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

This is a sweet one. Congrats to the team, including my Lex Lumina colleagues Rhett Millsaps, Mark McKenna, and Mark Lemley.

Hard agree. Americans have questionable taste in chocolate (too sweet), cars (too big), and presidents.

I have a piece in Science w/ @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and Abhishek Nagaraj on Market Dilution, Fair Use, and Generative AI. We argue that the market dilution theory of copyright harm from AI training is conceptually undeveloped and empirically unsubstantiated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We review existing empirical work claiming to offer evidence of market dilution, and highlight some of the methodological difficulties. And we offer some thoughts on what future scholarship should look like.

Doing the annual re-reading of ABC v. Aereo for tomorrow's copyright class. It remains the worst-reasoned Supreme Court opinion on copyright, ever. Scalia's dissent is devastating.

Aereo had a business b/c the broadcasters had failed to keep that promise, and the gov't had failed to enforce it. And not only in the hinterlands, *but in major cities.* That's where Aereo offered its services.

Doing the annual re-reading of ABC v. Aereo for tomorrow's copyright class. It remains the worst-reasoned Supreme Court opinion on copyright, ever. Scalia's dissent is devastating.

And it's not just the weakness of Breyer's "guilt-by-resemblance-to-a-cable-system" logic. It's the technical incompetence, especially the conflation of CATV systems with cable (they are meaningfully different systems!). And also the utter failure to deal w/OTA broadcast history. By which I mean ...

Except maybe firing squad porn, which must exist (see Rule No. 34).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34