Private equity firms recognize the value of investing in U.S. professional sports—the sector’s growth is outpacing other industries and asset classes due to the rapid increase in franchise valuations. However, those same...more
9/9/2025
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Sports ,
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WNBA
The BIOSECURE Act (“the Act”), which received bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2024 but was not ultimately passed into law, has re-emerged in this session of Congress, but with...more
9/4/2025
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OMB ,
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Supply Chain
In two recent Northern District of California decisions, AI companies prevailed on a fair use defense after being accused of infringing copyrights in works used to train AI models. The decisions, on their face, seem to...more
7/8/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Books ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
e-Books ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Search Engines ,
Summary Judgment ,
Third-Party ,
Thomson Reuters ,
Transformative Use
On Friday, June 6, 2025, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved the landmark settlement in the House v. NCAA class action suit (the “House settlement”). The House...more
6/23/2025
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Class Action ,
Collective Bargaining ,
College Athletes ,
Compensation ,
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Name and Likeness ,
NCAA ,
Settlement ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Student Athletes ,
Title IX ,
UBTI ,
Unions
As has been widely reported, including in our year-end summary of the current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation, AI providers are currently facing a wave of lawsuits1 from copyright owners...more
In April 2024, we published a summary of the then current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation. Since that publication, new theories for complaints and defenses have emerged in this space. As...more