On September 17, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) bills, Assembly Bill 2602 (AB 2602) and Assembly Bill 1836 (AB 1836), which introduce new regulatory requirements and...more
9/27/2024
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Celebrities ,
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a cautionary note to companies that employ artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, signaling heightened scrutiny over their use. Through a series of blog posts in the past year,...more
AI has been dramatically altering the creative landscape, offering new possibilities and challenges for content creators, media and gaming companies, and technology platforms....more
On February 15, 2024, the FTC published the Rule on Impersonation of Government and Businesses, permitting the FTC to file federal court cases directly against scammers to return the money made while impersonating government...more
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration issued a sweeping Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Executive Order”), which ambitiously directs the...more
11/9/2023
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NIST ,
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Regulatory Reform ,
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Reporting Requirements ,
Technology Sector
Over the past year, groups of plaintiffs filed multiple copyright infringement claims against companies behind generative artificial intelligence software. These lawsuits allege that training AI models involves mass-scale...more
1. Don’t exaggerate your AI product’s abilities. The FTC has recently warned businesses that false or deceptive claims about the capabilities of AI products can subject companies to liability, as it would for any deceptive...more
10/20/2023
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Best Practices ,
Disclosure ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Ethics ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Transparency
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to issue guidance on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential regulatory scrutiny facing companies and creators using these new tools in the market....more
9/7/2023
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In February 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued guidance to companies to keep their artificial intelligence (AI) claims in check and urged them not to exaggerate the capabilities of their AI products or...more
As lawmakers race to catch up on AI technology, the FTC has issued guidance warning marketers not to make false or unsubstantiated claims about AI-powered products. As we see AI starting to emerge in many consumer...more
Ever since the first Terminator movie was released, we have seen portrayals of robots taking over the world. Now we are at the beginning of a process by which technology—specifically, artificial intelligence—will enable the...more
In This Issue -
Artificial Intelligence: Deepfakes in the Entertainment Industry —
Advances in “deepfake” media techniques that use deep learning AI—from uncanny impersonation videos of Tom Cruise and other...more
2/1/2022
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Copyright ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Digital Copies ,
Employees ,
Entertainment Industry ,
Ex Partes Reexamination ,
Expungement ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Prior Art ,
The Copyright Act ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) ,
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO