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Brian L. Frye
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Dogecoin Professor of Law & Grifting. Securities artist & conceptual lawyer. Legal scholarship's #1 plagiarism apologist. Maybell Romero’s +1. https://linktr.ee/brianlfrye

Brian Lawrence Frye is an American independent filmmaker, artist, and law professor. His work includes Our Nixon, for which he served as a producer with his ex-wife, Penny Lane. His film Oona's Veil is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art, and his writings on film and art have appeared in The New Republic, Film Comment, Cineaste, Millennium Film Journal, and The Village Voice. Filmmaker Magazine listed him as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012. He currently is the Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he teaches courses on civil procedure, intellectual property, copyright, and nonprofit organizations. Frye is currently a visiting professor at Tulane University Law School where his spouse, Maybell Romero, is the McGlinchey Stafford Associate Professor of Law. He is a vocal critic of the bar exams and refers to his course on professional responsibility as "Managing the Legal Cartel". .. more

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Everything is faux. 🤗

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Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you.

If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2

Thanks for the mention of my article “The Ballad of Harry James Tompkins”! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The pleasure was all mine!

I just posted Ipse Dixit #824, featuring @sharonyadin.bsky.social discussing her new article "The Hidden Nature of Regulation" forthcoming in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, in which she explains that regulation is always negotiated. shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...
Sharon Radin on the Nature of Regulation | Ipse Dixit
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If only there were a charitable organization that represented law schools that could create a free service that did exactly the same thing.

I would complain about Scholastica increasing its already absurd prices for running a glorified mail merge, but who can blame them for taking candy from a baby? As always, we law professors know how to solve every market failure, except the ones in the markets we directly control.
Scholastica is just a fancier version of Mailchimp. Why are we even having to pay $6.60, let alone $7.35?

The license text could be protected by copyright, to the extent it includes “original” expressive elements, but there might also be merger issues if there’s only a limited number of ways of expressing the idea.
Scholastica is just a fancier version of Mailchimp. Why are we even having to pay $6.60, let alone $7.35?

There's a brand-new essay by Frank Fagen, haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it sounds pretty interesting. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Coming Law Review Shortage
Today, law reviews sit near equilibrium: roughly 5,000 annual submissions for about 5,600 slots. Tomorrow, large language models are likely to drive output towa
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Douglas seems more like a zombie killer to me.

Probably not, I like this one too much.

Not sure, I don’t think so.

I just posted Ipse Dixit #823, featuring @jcontreras.bsky.social of @sjquinney.bsky.social discussing his draft article "Silly Patents." If you want to learn how to exercise your cat, check it out! shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e...
Jorge Contreras on Silly Patents | Ipse Dixit
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Diplomacy is about outcomes.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
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Watching 2 Fast 2 Furious on the airplane & reflecting that @maybell.bsky.social would be impressed by all the efficient zipper merging.

Strikes me as about the best case for it?

Laches, maybe? I don’t see how you can let/encourage millions of people take the same photo & then enforce only against the people you dislike.

I’m not entirely sure they’ve copied an original element created by Kapoor. Also seems like there’s an implied license for anyone to photograph this work. Maybe not to use it commercially under Warhol?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com

Thanks!!!

Doing my best to kiss up to my new boss.

I get to stick with copyright, which is all federal. 🙏

Yes!!!

Finally.

Please!!!

Right before!

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I couldn’t be more delighted to announce that I’ve accepted an offer to join the faculty of Tulane Law School. law.tulane.edu/news/tulane-...
Tulane Law Welcomes Professor Brian Frye to the Faculty
Tulane University Law School News
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