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AI Legislation: The Statewide Spotlight - Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AI Legislation: The Statewide Spotlight — The Consumer Finance Podcast
AI in Employment: Navigating the Legal Landscape with Lessons from I, Robot — The Good Bot Podcast
5 Key Takeaways | Artificial Intelligence: What Tax Professionals Need to Know
The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
AI Discrimination and Emerging Best Practices – Part 2 - The Good Bot Podcast
Podcast - Decoding the Future of AI Regulation and Frontier Models
A Conversation with Alexandra Johnson, CEO/Co-Founder of Rubber Ducky Labs, AI Recommender Systems Pioneer
AI Discrimination and Emerging Best Practices – Part 1 — The Good Bot Podcast
Dan Rudoy Examines the Impact of AI on IP Strategy
Seeing into the Future: Moving Beyond AI to Visual Intelligence with Oculi CEO Charbel Rizk
A Brief Overview of Colorado’s Recently Enacted AI Law
Spotlight on Lightmatter, the Photonic (Super) Computing Company Ready to Power the AI Revolution
Podcast - Part 2: An FTC Official Speaks About the Regulation of AI Technology
A Deep Dive into HUD's New Guidance on AI-Driven Targeted Advertising — The Consumer Finance Podcast
[Webinar] AI and Data Privacy: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Opportunity
AD Nauseam: AI – We Had to Discuss it Eventually – Part 2
On May 9, 2025, the United States Copyright Office (the USCO) released a 108-page report on whether the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems is defensible as a...more
Last week, the Copyright Office released the third and final part of its report exploring copyright-related issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike the first two parts, the third was released as a...more
Hours before the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, was unceremoniously fired, the U.S. Copyright Office published long-awaited guidance on the use of copyrighted content for training artificial intelligence (AI)....more
On May 9, 2025, the US Copyright Office released a “pre-publication version” of Part 3 of its report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (the Report). This much-anticipated Report focuses on use of copyrighted works in...more
A day before the firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, the third installment of the office's series of reports on copyright issues and AI was released. The 113-page document covers a lot of ground, not the least of...more
The Copyright Office released a “Pre-publication” version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights, was fired amid a shakeup at the Copyright Office. The...more
Summer must be coming, because the courts are starting to heat up with copyright decisions in artificial intelligence (AI) cases. We’ve previously written here, here, and here about Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to register...more
In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming the district court’s denial of a...more
The DC Circuit has reaffirmed and reinforced longstanding Copyright Office policy that only humans can be authors....more
The recent decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter et al., No. 23-5233 (D.C. Cir. 2025) offers continued guidance on whether “authorship” can be attributed to AI systems (i.e., non-humans) under Copyright Law. The D.C. Circuit...more
Last week, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Copyright Office’s refusal to register the copyright in this image, which was created entirely by AI. This is consistent with longstanding precedent (in the US, at least) that only...more
On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human...more
Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter. The opinion notably solidifies the U.S. Copyright Office’s position that works generated autonomously (and thus solely) by artificial...more
On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial intelligence (“AI”) cannot be...more
President Biden’s Executive Order on AI (AI EO), issued on October 30, 2023, directed various agencies to take certain actions within one year of the AI EO’s issuance. On October 24, 2024, the White House announced that...more
The firm is pleased to distribute the Q2 2024 edition of All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments, which closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more
The Situation: In early 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office ("Office") launched a new initiative to examine the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence ("AI"). Later that year, the Office issued Registration...more
Generative AI tools such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are increasingly being used to produce static 2D images, and technology from companies like Runway AI Inc., which recently hosted its second annual AI Film...more
In the wake of several Congressional hearings over the past year on AI and intellectual property, Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) has introduced the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 (H.R. 7913). ...more
Summary - The Copyright Office Review Board (Board) has affirmed the Copyright Office’s refusal of a work created with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software....more
The latest briefing in Silverman v. OpenAI reads like that old REM song, “The End of the World as We Know It.” OpenAI has responded to the Plaintiffs’ claims that OpenAI’s popular platform ChatGPT has infringed their...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a technological innovation; it’s a transformative force that has permeated multiple sectors, from healthcare to finance. As AI startups and companies creating AI tools (“AI...more
The US Copyright Office (CO) Review Board rejected a request to register artwork partially generated by artificial intelligence (AI) because the work contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by AI and the...more
The increasing sophistication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had widespread effects on fields ranging from art and film to law and healthcare. The implications for copyright law principles, such as authorship,...more
In this edition, key themes include creators and consumers seeking more control and protection over how their content is used to train AI models (whether under copyright law or privacy laws), and governments grappling with...more