Latest Publications

Share:

The Informed Board - Summer 2024

Across industries, companies are facing new and uncertain regulatory pressures and demands in areas including artificial intelligence, sustainability, algorithmic pricing and fintech-bank relations. In this issue of The...more

AI Safety: The Role of the Board in Assessing and Managing AI Risk

As AI systems become more complex, companies are increasingly exposed to reputational, financial and legal risk from developing and deploying AI systems that do not function as intended or that yield problematic outcomes. The...more

CFPB Comments on AI Offer Insights for Consumer Finance Industry

On August 12, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) provided comments on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial services sector that are among its most extensive regarding risks and...more

Copyright Office Advocates for Federal ‘Digital Replica’ Law

On July 31, 2024, the United States Copyright Office (Copyright Office) published a report urging Congress to create a federal law protecting individuals against unauthorized artificial intelligence (AI) generated digital...more

Insights – June 2024

Explore the unique considerations for mergers and acquisitions in the AI sector, the return of IPOs, the implications of new Supreme Court decisions and other developments in this edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights....more

The EU AI Act: What Businesses Need To Know

The newly approved Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or the Act) aims to create a secure and trustworthy environment for the development and use of AI in the European Union....more

Colorado’s Landmark AI Act: What Companies Need To Know

Colorado has become the first state to enact a comprehensive law relating to the development and deployment of certain artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (CAIA), which will go into...more

District Court Adopts Broad View of Copyright Preemption in Data Scraping Case

The recent California district court decision dismissing the complaint in X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. could have significant implications for companies that rely on their terms of use to prohibit unauthorized “data scraping”...more

The UK ICO Publishes Its Strategy on AI Governance

Rather than specifically regulating artificial intelligence (AI), the UK government has opted to rely on the existing web of laws and regulations applying to technology across a spectrum of sectors in its jurisdiction. But...more

USPTO Provides Guidance on Using AI-Based Tools in Filing and Preparing Patent and Trademark Applications

On April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) published new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) based tools in connection with preparing and prosecuting patent and...more

Utah Becomes First State To Enact AI-Centric Consumer Protection Law

On March 13, 2024, Utah enacted the Utah Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (UAIP), which imposes certain disclosure requirements on entities using generative AI tools with their customers, and limits an entity’s ability to...more

Tennessee Law Addresses Proliferation of Deepfakes

Tennessee has enacted the Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, which aims to protect individuals from the use of their persona in connection with “deepfakes” (i.e., fake content generated by artificial...more

New Developments Help Clarify Intersection of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence

Two recent developments, one in the U.S. and one in the U.K., have shed further light on the intersection of patent law and artificial intelligence (AI), particularly with respect to whether AI-generated inventions can be...more

AI Insights: Recent Developments That Could Impact How Companies Offer AI-Based Customer Service Chatbots

Two recent developments highlight the challenges companies may face as they explore ways to incorporate AI-based chatbots into their customer service offerings: - A putative class action filed in California federal...more

Motion To Dismiss Ruling Provides Insight Into How Courts View AI Training Data Cases

A recent decision by a California district court in J. Doe 1 v. GitHub, Inc., a case brought by computer programmers alleging that their works had been used to train AI models that generate computer code in violation of their...more

The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts - January 2024

SEC Wins Summary Judgment on Howey Issue in Terraform Litigation - On December 28, 2023, Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York issued a summary judgment decision in SEC v. Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., a...more

AI Insights: Proposed FTC Order Suggests Blueprint for AI Adoption

A proposed settlement action filed on December 19, 2023, by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Rite Aid Corp. highlights some of the key issues presented when companies use artificial intelligence (AI) for facial...more

AI Insights: Copyright Office Rejects Application for AI-Generated Work Based on a Photograph

Copyright Office Rejects Application for AI-Generated Work Based on a Photograph -- On December 11, 2023, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (Board) rejected a Second Request for reconsideration with...more

AI Insights: Court Grants Motion To Dismiss in Kadrey AI Training Data Case

Court Grants Motion To Dismiss in Kadrey AI Training Data Case - In a short but sharply worded decision, a California district court on November 20, 2023, granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss in Kadrey v. Meta...more

AI Insights: In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment

In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment - In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, a district court largely denied the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment and held that a...more

AI Insights: Biden Administration Passes Sweeping Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

On October 30, the U.S. government released its long-awaited, sweeping executive order (the AI EO or Order) on artificial intelligence (AI). The Order directs various U.S. government departments and agencies to evaluate AI...more

AI Insights: Court Largely Grants Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss in AI Training Data Case

Court Largely Grants Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss in AI Training Data Case - On Monday, a district court largely granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss in Andersen et al. v. Stability AI et al., one of a series of...more

AI Insights: Copyright Office To Consider AI Proposal as Part of the Current DMCA Triennial Review

Copyright Office To Consider AI Proposal as Part of the Current DMCA Triennial Review - A key feature of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is its prohibition of circumventing access controls that have been...more

Federal Report Proposes Harmonization of Divergent Cyber Incident Reporting Regimes

On September 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a report outlining the varied and sometimes conflicting reporting requirements that private entities face when they are victims of a cyber incident. The...more

232 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 10

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide