DC-Merge: Improving Model Merging with Directional Consistency
arXiv:2603.06242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-adapted models into a unified model that preserves the knowledge of each task. In this paper, we identify that the key to this knowledge retention lies in maintaining the...
Artificial Intelligence and the Copyright Survey
Boundary Work between Computational ‘Law’ and ‘Law-as-We-Know-it’
Abstract This chapter enquires into the use of big data analytics and prediction of judgment to inform both law and legal decision-making. The main argument is that the use of data-driven ‘legal technologies’ may transform the ‘mode of existence’ of...
The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence offers an extensive analysis of intellectual property and authorship theories and explores the possible impact artificial intelligence (AI) might have on those theories. The author makes compelling arguments via the...
AI & Intellectual Property: Towards an Articulated Public Domain
The Selective Labels Problem
Evaluating whether machines improve on human performance is one of the central questions of machine learning. However, there are many domains where the data is <i>selectively labeled</i> in the sense that the observed outcomes are themselves a consequence of the...
Career Services for Employers
2026 Winter Mingle January 28th, 2026 at the Music City Center in Nashville, TNThis year’s Winter Mingle will take a slightly different approach, bringing together all VLS students for the event. It’s an excellent opportunity to connect with students and...
Insurers as Contract Influencers lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By DAVID A. HOFFMAN & RICK SWEDLOFF. Full Text. Contract boilerplate degrading consumers' litigation options is omnipresent, but a little mysterious. And that's not just because no one reads it. We know that terms mandating arbitration, exculpating liability, requiring individualized...
A philosophy of technology for computational law
This chapter confronts the foundational challenges posed to legal theory and legal philosophy by the rise of computational ‘law’. Two types will be distinguished, noting that they can be combined into hybrid systems. On the one hand, the use of...
Surveillance Intrusiveness in a Pandemic
Government surveillance capabilities have always been a matter of public concern, but the current pandemic makes the issue especially salient. We set out to discover what Americans think of government surveillance during this crisis. Americans have been inundated with media...
AI-generated works and copyright law: towards a union of strange bedfellows
Journal Article AI-generated works and copyright law: towards a union of strange bedfellows Get access Emmanuel Salami Emmanuel Salami Email: Emmanuel.Salami@outlook.com. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice,...
Submissions - Minnesota Law Review
The Minnesota Law Review is published six times a year in November, December, February, April, May, and June by the Minnesota Law Review Foundation. Headnotes is published two times a year in the Fall and Spring. Minnesota Law Review Submissions...
Navigating the Dual Nature of Deepfakes: Ethical, Legal, and Technological Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence AI) Technology
The rapid development of deepfake technology has opened up a range of groundbreaking opportunities while also introducing significant ethical challenges. This paper explores the complex impacts of deepfakes by drawing from fields such as computer science, ethics, media studies, and...
The Demise of the Functionality Doctrine in Design Patent Law
ARTICLE The Demise of the Functionality Doctrine in Design Patent Law Perry J. Saidman* The so-called doctrine of functionality arises in both design patent validity and infringement analyses. Broadly stated, the doctrine seeks to ensure that design patents do not...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies
Artificial intelligence as object of intellectual property in Indonesian law
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has an important role in digital transformation worldwide, including in Indonesia. AI itself is a simulation of human intelligence that is modeled in machines and programmed to think like humans. At the time AI and the...
The Unpropertied Internet
It has often been said that the internet lacks public property. Unlike the offline world, denizens of cyberspace cannot gather in the digital equivalent of public parks, cannot shame websites by picketing on adjacent cyber-sidewalks, and cannot loiter in online...
Aether, Radiation, Mass-Energy Law, Gravity and Inertia
The universal space, crisscrossed by electric fields from electric charges in bodies, is proposed to be the aether as a physical medium conceived by Maxwell, Einstein and others. The fields, in accordance with Coulomb’s law, balance out everywhere. Permittivity and...
The intellectual property road to the knowledge economy: remarks on the readiness of the UAE Copyright Act to drive AI innovation
Copyright law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the capacity to address the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated literary, artistic and scientific works. Under UAE copyright law, AI-generated works may qualify as copyright subject matter despite the non-human...
On the Concept of Artificial Intelligence and the Basics of its Regulation in International and Russian Law
The article covers the study of the issues of the concept of artificial intelligence and certain problematic aspects of the legal regulation of its use. The authors analyze the concept of artificial intelligence in domestic and foreign legislation, foreign and...
The Way Forward for Legal Knowledge Engineers in the Big Data Era with the Impact of AI Technology
In the era of big data, the application of AI technology has become a core driver of social development, widely affecting a wide range of fields and impacting on the development models of various industries. With changing business models and...
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on Creativity of Artificial Intelligence(AI) - Focusing on Patents and Copyright protection -
Artificial Intelligence Governed by Laws and Regulations
Exacerbating Algorithmic Bias through Fairness Attacks
Algorithmic fairness has attracted significant attention in recent years, with many quantitative measures suggested for characterizing the fairness of different machine learning algorithms. Despite this interest, the robustness of those fairness measures with respect to an intentional adversarial attack has...
The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions
Big Data is increasingly mined to rank and rate individuals. Predictive algorithms assess whether we are good credit risks, desirable employees, reliable tenants, valuable customers—or deadbeats, shirkers, menaces, and “wastes of time.” Crucial opportunities are on the line, including the...
Artificial Intelligence as an Object of Civil Law Regulation
AI, Governance and Ethics: Global Perspectives
Application of artificial intelligence in the judiciary and its applicability in North Macedonia
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various industries has spurred curiosity about its potential role in reshaping the judiciary. This scientific paper delves into the application of AI within the judicial system and examines its potential impact in North...
Survey of Text Mining Techniques Applied to Judicial Decisions Prediction
This paper reviews the most recent literature on experiments with different Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques applied to predict judicial and administrative decisions. Among the most outstanding findings, we have that the most used data mining...