The question of 1st Am. rights to ‘express’ is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) – The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of “compuright.”

Quote-posting Lawrence Lessig’s Bluesky post:

The First Amendment in the 21st Century — from the Your Undivided Attention podcast.

— Lawrence Lessig (@lessig.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T17:23:01.016Z