Insights Fall 2022

Intellectual Property

The Implications of Supreme Court Justices' Laughter

Professor Sag is an expert in copyright law and intellectual property, and a leading US authority on the fair use doctrine in copyright law and its implications for researchers in the fields of text data mining, machine learning, and AI. Born and educated in Australia, Sag clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Australian Federal Court. He practiced law in London at Arnold & Porter, and in Silicon Valley with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Prior to joining Emory Law in 2022, Sag taught at DePaul University and Loyola Chicago; he has also held visiting posts at Northwestern University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Melbourne. He is currently working on several theoretical contributions to copyright law in relation to AI and machine learning and a series of empirical papers using text-mining and machine learning tools to study judicial behavior. His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, and the law reviews of the University of California, Berkeley; Georgetown; Northwestern; Notre Dame; Vanderbilt; Iowa; and William & Mary, among others. His research has been widely cited in academic works, court submissions, judicial opinions, and government reports.

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