Representative Cases and Projects

“One of the things that I was able to work on with AI Now was writing a letter of support for a group of tenants who were appealing their landlord’s decision to implement a facial recognition system at their building..... One of the concerns with facial recognition technology is the highest rates of inaccuracies are with persons of color, women, elderly, and children as well.”

Enoch Ajayi '20

Government Surveillance and Digital Privacy

• Amicus brief for ACLU, ACLU of Colorado, and EFF in People v. Tafoya (Colo. Jan. 25, 2021)
• Amicus brief for ACLU and ACLU of Alaska Foundation in United States v. Basey (9th Cir. Feb. 19, 2019)

• Unsealing motion for ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, and EFF in In re DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook to Provide Technical Assistance in Sealed Case (E.D. Cal. Nov. 28, 2018)

• Kara Brandeisky & Kristin Mulvey, ACLU Seeks Secret Ruling That Stopped Feds from Hacking Facebook Messenger, ACLU (Nov. 28, 2018)

• Amicus brief for Tech:NYC in Airbnb Inc. v. City of New York (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 1, 2018)
• ACLU, How Malicious Software Updates Endanger Everyone (2018)
• Courtney Kan & Alexia Ramirez, Big Brother Is Getting More Tech-Savvy — Here’s How to Fight Its Next Hack, ACLU (Jun. 21, 2018)
• TechNYC, Homesharing in New York: Policy Brief (2018)
• Amicus brief for Freedom of the Press Foundation in Twitter v. Holder (N.D.Cal. Feb. 17, 2015)
• Amici brief for ACLU, ACLU of Pennsylvania, EFF and NACDL in United States v Katzin (3rd Cir. Nov. 13, 2012)

Free Expression Online

• Amici brief for NYU TLP Clinic and Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Barton v. Texas (U.S. Dec. 8, 2022)
• Amici brief for Wikimedia Foundation et al. in Hassell v. Bird (Cal. Apr. 14, 2017)

Consumer Protection

• NYU Tech Law & Policy Clinic, EPIC File Complaint with CFPB About Rocket Money’s Abusive Data Practices, EPIC (Dec. 7, 2022)

Health Data

• NYU TLP Clinic, Comment Letter on HHS’s Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule (Apr.  23, 2021)

• Amy Kapczynski & Christopher Morten, The Big Data Regulator, Rebooted: Why and How the FDA Can and Should Disclose Confidential Data on Prescription Drugs and Vaccines, 109 Cal. L. Rev. 493 (2021)

• Ariella Barel & Laurel Boman, Clinical Trial Cost Transparency at the National Institutes of Health: Law and Policy Recommendations (2020)

• Shweta Kumar, Christopher Morten & Joseph Ross, Promoting Clinical Trial Transparency Through the Courts: A Strategic Lawsuit Against the FDA, TranspariMED (Oct. 23, 2019)

Intellectual Property

Copyright

• Amicus brief for the NAACP in American Society for Testing & Materials v. Public.Resource.Org (D.C. Cir. Dec. 12, 2022)
• Amici brief for Latipa (née Michelle Dizon) and Việt Lê in The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (2d Cir. Feb. 28, 2020) (key issue: scope of the fair use defense in visual art)
• Amici brief for Small, Medium, and Open Source Technology Organizations in Google v. Oracle (U.S. Jan. 13, 2020) (key issue: copyright protection for software APIs)
• Amici brief for Mozilla Corp., Mapbox, A Medium Corp., Patreon, Etsy and Wikimedia in Google v. Oracle (U.S. Feb. 25, 2019)
• Amici brief for 42 Intellectual Property Law Professors in Oracle v. Google (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2017)
• Amici brief for Open Source Initiative, Mozilla Corp. and Engine in Google v. Oracle (U.S. Nov. 7, 2014)
• Amici brief for Computer Scientists in Oracle v. Google (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2013)
• Amicus brief for ACLU, ACLU of Georgia, and Jason Schultz in Georgia et. al v. Public.Resource.Org (U.S. Oct. 16, 2019) (key issue: whether copyright protection extends to official state commentary on its own laws)
• Open Source Hardware Association, Open Source Hardware Association Certification Guide (2018)
• Amici brief for Copyright Law Scholars in Capitol Records LLC  v. ReDigi Inc. (2nd Cir. Feb. 15, 2017) (key issue: whether first sale doctrine applies to digital goods)
• Amici brief for Small and Independent Broadcasters in American Broadcast Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. (U.S. Apr. 1, 2014) (key issue: whether showing live and time-shifted streams of over-the-air television on internet-connected devices violates copyright law)
• EFF, Car Security Research Exemption Request to U.S. Copyright Office (2014)
• EFF, Car Repair and Modification Exemption Request to U.S. Copyright Office (2014)
• Aaron Perzanowski & Jason Schultz, Op-Ed: Do You Own the Software That Runs Your Tesla?, L.A. Times (Nov. 4, 2016)

Patent

• NYU TLP Clinic, U.S. 10,960,070:The U.S. Government’s Important New Coronavirus Vaccine Patent (2021) (key issue: using patent law to bring down the price of, and expand access to, medicines and vaccines)
• Joseph Adamcyzk, Adrienne Lewis & Shivani Morrison, § 1498: A Guide to Government Patent Use: A Path to Licensing and Distributing Generic Drugs (2021)
• PrEP4All & NYU TLP Clinic, The U.S. Government’s Apparent Co-Ownership of Patents Protecting Remdesivir (2020)
• NYU TLP Clinic, PrEP4All Petition to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Regarding U.S. 7,390,791 & 7,803,788 (Dec. 9, 2019)
• Christopher Morten & Amy Kapczynski, United States v. Gilead: Can a Lawsuit Yield Better Access To PrEP?, Health Affairs (Nov. 18, 2019)
• Amici brief for Law, Business, and Economics Scholars in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International (U.S. Feb. 26, 2014) (key issue: patent protection for software)

Trade Secrecy

• Amici brief for AI Now Institute et al. in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader (U.S., Mar. 25, 2019) (key issue: to what extent can the federal government rely on corporate trade secrecy and “confidential commercial information” to withhold information from the public?)

Trademark

• Amici brief for ACLU, ACLU of Oregon, and ACLU of DC in In re Tam (Fed. Cir. Aug. 24, 2015) (key issue: can the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office refuse to register trademarks that it deems immoral or scandalous?)

Algorithmic Decision-Making

• Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz and Vincent Southerland, AI Now Institute, New Challenges to Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems (2019)