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#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/10/24
Spring held on for another day, and luckily I was able to go out for a decent run accompanied by talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!
First was a nice slate of talks at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law by Martijn Snoep (an enforcer's perspective on the green and digital transition), Konrad Kollnig (Ticketmaster, online bots, and the price of concert tickets), and Maria José Schmidt-Kessen (human rights and corporate sustainability due diligence for improving antitrust law) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vczQsxVQajA
Next was an important panel on the ethics of weight loss drugs at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities with Andrew Kraftson and Gina Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVWbcLYeZ4
Next was a fantastic pair of talks by Justine Haekens (analysis of Spotify playlist composition through the lens of copyright and competition law) and Juan David Gutiérrez Rodríguez (implementation of AI by Colombia's competition agency and IP office) at Maastricht University. Haekens' talk highlights interesting challenges in regulating two-sided market platforms, while Juan David's talk is an incredible dive into the impressive computational antitrust work happening in Colombia. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNiyQSdPysI
Next was a great talk by Guido Imbens on causality in economics at Brown University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjw20ne3P1Q
Last was an excellent talk by James Grimmelmann on generative AI and copyright at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). Grimmelmann provides a good overview of the issues at play here, as well as a savage dig at Gerald Ford😲 Favorite quote: "It's not at all obvious that the incentives to create of the sort that copyright offers are the appropriate system of law to govern this new [technology]. It may be that what replaces copyright due to generative AI is as different from copyright as copyright was from the patronage system that came before it." Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPhm4zBp00