No Password Required: From AOL to Award-Winning Cuisine to High-Stakes Hacking
(Podcast) The Briefing: Who Owns WallStreetBets? Trademark Use in Commerce and the Reddit Battle
The Briefing: Who Owns WallStreetBets? Trademark Use in Commerce and the Reddit Battle
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
Compliance Needs are Alive and Well: FTC's Recent Enforcement Activity
No Password Required: Reginald “Andre” Andre, CEO of ARK Solvers and Builder of Human + AI-Driven Culture
Podcast - New Guidance on Complying with FTC Rule on Deceptive and Unfair Fees
Litigation Communications Strategies for High-Stakes Cases: On Record PR
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Impact of the Election on the FTC
What Every Law Firm Leader Can Learn from Law Day and the Perkins Coie Ruling: On Record PR
LEGAL ALERT | NAD Finds Kevin Hart’s Social Media Disclosures Insufficient in Monitoring Decisions
Podcast - Looking into the Crystal Ball: The Future of Consumer Protection Law Enforcement
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - TCPA Compliance and Litigation Update
Dialing In: The TCPA and Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Episode 120: Tim Cecere, President of St. Francis College in Brooklyn – Marketing and Advertising
Key Takeaways from Frontlines of Ad Campaigns Gone Wrong and Critical Claim Substantiation Missteps
Requesting Cloud Data from Third Parties? Here’s What Every Litigator Needs to Know About the SCA
Ley Mbappé
TCPA Trends: 2024 Year-in-Review and 2025 Predictions — The Consumer Finance Podcast
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
On June 20, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed Texas SB140 into law, significantly amending Texas’s telemarketing statute, which is part of the Texas Business and Commerce Code (“TBCC”). The amendments will take...more
Further to the recent launch of the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) .FREE, .HOT and .SPOT in April, Amazon Registry continues the momentum and has announced the upcoming launch of three additional new gTLDs: .YOU, .TALK...more
The National Advertising Division of BBB National Programs recently released a report that influencers, creators and those who work with them may find particularly relevant regarding disclosure of brand sponsorships:...more
Taking your retail brand to the next level and attracting an equity investment based on the value of your brand requires not only business acumen but strategies for brand protection. Protecting your trademarks by way of...more
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a pressing legal debate over how copyrighted materials can be used to train generative AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), without permission...more
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” —Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part III. That iconic line about inescapable forces doesn’t just capture those thoughts of a mob boss trying to retire. It could just...more
On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. and agreed to weigh in on one of the most consequential digital copyright cases in recent memory....more
Readers of this blog may recall a piece in which we discussed an unfavorable Ninth Circuit California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) internet wiretapping decision. Interestingly, the Ninth Circuit recently weighed in again...more
Slack has transformed the way modern organizations communicate. Conversations that once happened over long email threads now take place in fast-moving channels, private messages, and quick back-and-forth threads. While this...more
The Northern District of California recently dismissed, with prejudice, a purported class action against Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (Royal Caribbean), alleging a violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)...more
Introduction - In 2024, over 4,000 lawsuits were filed in federal and state courts by individuals with visual, hearing, or other disabilities, alleging that companies’ websites and mobile applications failed to comply with...more
State governments, public school districts, and individuals are suing social media companies, such as TikTok and Snapchat, alleging that defects in their algorithms and platform features cause psychological and physical harm,...more
District court holds that Meta’s downloading of books from online “shadow libraries” and use of such books to train its Llama large language models constitutes fair use, but endorses “market dilution” theory of harm as...more
On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated a rule issued by the FTC that sought to expand the negative option rule to cover modern forms of negative option marketing in media, following challenges...more
Since generative AI began its rapid ascent in 2022, the creative, tech and legal industries have grappled with a fundamental question: does using copyrighted works to train AI models violate the rights of creators, or does it...more
Minnesota has a new law that, beginning a year from now, will require that social media companies warn users of the potential negative mental health effects of social media use each time a user accesses a social media...more
The TAKE IT DOWN Act (the Act), enacted on May 19, 2025, is a powerful (and controversial) new tool designed to stop people from sharing “nonconsensual intimate imagery,” or NCII, online. The Act does two main things: it...more
A New York court just decided some important preliminary motions (which I previously covered here in this post) involving allegedly unauthorized AI cloning of voice actors. The court reached a split decision, concluding...more
New York ‘s Child Data Protection Act, available here, took effect on June 20. This is a landmark piece of legislation designed to enhance the online privacy and safety of minors. As concerns over children’s digital...more
In a ruling that could reshape how adult content is regulated online, the U.S. Supreme Court has officially age-gated the First Amendment—at least when it comes to minors. On June 27, 2025, the Court upheld a Texas law...more
In our most recent “Junk Fee” Legislative Roundup, we noted that the Connecticut legislature had introduced a bill that could require companies to include mandatory fees in their prices. On June 10, 2025, Connecticut’s...more
In the linked article about a trademark dispute, the author notes that the plaintiff claimed the defendant used a “copyrighted name.” Just a reminder: one can patent inventions, copyright creative works of expression, and...more
According to the lawsuit referenced above filed against Twitter in 2022: Backgrid is the world's premier celebrity-related photograph agency and provides highly sought-after images of celebrities around the world to top...more
The California Attorney General (AG) has announced a landmark $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline), which operates a health information website. The settlement marks the largest fine to date in an...more
On June 20, the Supreme Court concluded that marketing denial orders (MDOs) issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be challenged not only by the applicants (typically, the manufacturer or importer of the...more