Michael D. Smith

UPDATES:

• May-26: I was interviewed by NPR Marketplace on Spotify's new service offering audio magazine articles.

• March-26: I was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article titled, "As Streaming Subscription Fees Rise, More Consumers Opt To Pay Less and Watch Ads".

• February-26: I gave a campuswide town hall discussion at Utah Valley University of my book The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World. The talk was covered by two local news outlets, KSL and The Daily Herald.

• January-26: My article "Creative Destruction or Destroying Creativity? It's Time to Chart a Sustainable Future for our Creative and Technology Ecosystems" was published in the 2025 Hatch Center Policy Review edition titled "AI at the Crossroads: Policy, Innovation, and the Public Interest."

• December-25: I was interviewed by NPR Marketplace about the potential Netflix-Warner Bros-HBO deal .

• December-25: My paper "From Bootleg to Binge: User Migration and Legal Demand Following Brazil’s MegafilmesHD Shutdown" with Brett Danaher and Jonathan Hersh, was published in the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues.

• November-25: My paper "Operational Decision Making Around Movie Piracy and Theatrical Release" with Helen Zeng, Yan Huang, and Gord Burtch was published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

• October-25: I was interviewed by NPR Marketplace about Netflix and Spotify's deal to to stream video podcasts.

• September-25: Ananya Sen, Rahul Telang, and I co-authored a blog for the Technology Policy Institute titled "Evidence-Driven Policy Frameworks to Unlock the Power of Data."

• August-25: I gave an academic research presentation to the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property's Summer Institute titled “Empirical Evidence for the Effectiveness of Judicial Site Blocking.”

• July-25: I testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism in a hearing titled "Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training." (Heinz College Coverage)

• June-25: I was a panelist in a session at the US Chamber of Commerce titled "Unlocking Creativity: The Power and Promise of Copyright".

• June-25: I was a panelist in a session titled "Foreign Online Piracy: How the Courts Can Protect American IP" sponsored by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. (Video here.) 

• June-25: I was a panelist at an event "AI in Society: Impact on Young People," sponsored by Warick Business School and UKAI, and held in the UK Houses of Parliament.

• May-25: I was quoted in a Forbes article titled "The College Semester is Dying".

• May-25: I published an Opinion piece in the Boston Globe titled "The Overhaul That Higher Education Truly Needs", co-authored with Steven Levitt and Jeffrey Severts.