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Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 3, April 2025

Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. SEC may Reverse Proposed Cryptocurrency Custody Rule and Ohio House...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Congress Reintroduces the NO FAKES Act with Broader Industry Support

Congress has reintroduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act— a bipartisan bill designed to establish a federal framework to protect individuals’ right of publicity. As previously...more

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Strategies for Safeguarding AI Innovation: Navigating the Complex IP Landscape for AI Technologies

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The protection of intellectual property (IP) is vital in the fiercely competitive artificial intelligence (AI) industry, necessitating a deep understanding of how the complex IP framework can be effectively leveraged to...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI

Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement during the model training process in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. v. ROSS...more

White & Case LLP

AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - United Kingdom

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The UK prioritizes a flexible framework over comprehensive regulation and emphasizes sector-specific laws. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) The UK government's AI Regulation White Paper of...more

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Trump Administration Receives 8,755 Comments for AI Action Plan — AI: The Washington Report

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The Trump administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy received 8,755 comments in response to its Request for Information for the development of its AI Action Plan implementing the Trump AI Executive Order issued...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Appellate Court Affirms Human Authorship Requirement for Copyrighting AI-Generated Works

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a district court ruling that human authorship is a bedrock requirement to register a copyright, and that an artificial intelligence system cannot be deemed the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for...

Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) cannot be designated as the...more

Perkins Coie

Copyright Office Solidifies Stance on the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office released part two of its artificial intelligence (AI) report addressing the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. This new report is largely consistent with the...more

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When the Machine Becomes the Creator: Artificial Intelligence v. the Human Creator Requirements of U.S. Copyright Law

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On March 18, 2025 the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter et al., confirming that U.S. law requires human authorship. Specifically, the question presented to the Court was “can a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Artists Protest AI Copyright Proposal in the U.K.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to turn the U.K. into an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower to help grow the British economy by using policies that he describes as “pro-innovation.” One of these policies...more

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AI Reporter - March 2025

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Google removed its organizational ban on the use of AI for weapons and surveillance systems. The change eliminates key portions of the tech giant’s AI Principles that banned such uses. These principles, established in 2018,...more

J.S. Held

2025 J.S. Held Global Risk Report: Artificial Intelligence, Data & Digital Regulations

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been touted as the answer to a multitude of business challenges. However, AI – along with machine learning and large language models (LLMs) – is still fraught with technical and regulatory...more

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Navigating the Intersection of AI and Copyright: Key Insights From the US Copyright Office’s Latest Report

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The US Copyright Office recently released Part 2 of its Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Report, addressing the copyrightability of outputs generated from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This report is the second...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Takes Centre Stage at the Oscars as the UK Creative Industry Urges Protection of Copyrighted Works

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – Anthropic releases “hybrid reasoning” model, protests against UK AI copyright measures, Huawei improves AI chip...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

AI Training Using Copyrighted Works Ruled Not Fair Use

In the first substantive decision regarding whether use of copyrighted works to train an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool constitutes fair use under copyright law, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Indian Music Industry Enters the Global Copyright Debate Over AI

The legal battles surrounding generative AI and copyright continue to escalate with prominent players in the Indian music industry now seeking to join an existing lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. On February...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – AI Action Summit in Paris, Reuters wins first major AI copyright lawsuit, Microsoft studies AI’s effects on...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

AI Model Training is Unfair – In Limited Circumstances

A Delaware federal district court made headlines this week by issuing the first court decision rejecting fair use as a defense in training artificial intelligence (AI) models with copyrighted content. In Thomson Reuters...more

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Use of Copyrighted Works in AI Training Is Not Fair Use: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.

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With the Trump administration’s push to establish America’s global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), thorny questions of intellectual property rights and fair use are likely to be litigated with greater frequency....more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Fair Use in AI Copyright Litigation: A Surprising Turn in Thomson Reuters v. Ross

From the pages of The New York Times to the…general counsel’s office of The New York Times, AI copyright litigation is all the rage. Possible questions include the philosophical—e.g. “Could an AI agent hold a copyright?”—but...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Delaware Court Grants Summary Judgment to Plaintiff in Machine Learning / AI Copyright Case

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Albert Einstein is credited with saying “the measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In September 2023, Judge Stephanos Bibas—sitting by designation in the District of Delaware—denied plaintiff Thomson Reuters’...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Federal Court Rules Against ‘Fair Use’ Defense for AI Training

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On Tuesday, February 11, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware held in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. that the defendant’s unauthorized use of the plaintiff’s...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Fair-Use Whiplash: Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence Revisits Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence

On Tuesday, February 11, a Delaware district court issued much-awaited summary-judgment decisions in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., No. 1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future...more

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