New York has a new AI-related law which took effect January 1. The law regulates creation and use of digital replicas of an individual’s voice or likeness and is similar to those in California and Tennessee....more
The new Massachusetts Parentage Act goes into effect in less than a month, on January 1, 2025. While much of the conversation has appropriately been around the changes it brings to laws for LGBTQ+ families, the bill also...more
AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving skills, whereas deepfake is synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated to replace and mimic one person’s likeness. AI has...more
Q1 Is there scope to use AI in commercial contracts? Will it save time, or ultimately cost more time in review and pose greater risk?...more
Two new AI “Digital Replica” laws in California may end up playing a crucial role in resolving a drawn-out labor dispute between video game actors and developers. Video game actors organized by the Screen Actors Guild...more
The new year will bring new laws in California. In addition to laws addressing generative AI training data, digital replicas, and deepfakes, there will also be new and amended laws imposing requirements on businesses that...more
California has enacted three new bills in an effort to curb the spread of misinformation and deceptive election content. The bills — AB 2655, AB 2839 and AB 2355 — aim to strengthen protections against digitally altered...more
Last week, over the course of a single day, California Governor Gavin Newsom made headlines by signing into law five new bills tackling complex issues involving digital replicas and deepfakes. Two of the bills are aimed at...more
In the absence of federal legislation addressing the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, individual states continue to fill that void by enacting state-specific legislation....more
YouTube has announced a slate of new AI detection tools to enhance its ContentID system. The tools are designed to address the challenges posed by AI-generated content, which is becoming increasingly prevalent and...more
Governor Gavin Newsom has made waves by signing five new bills aimed at tackling the challenges posed by deepfakes in California, with two bills covering digital replicas of performers and three focused on elections and...more
What do Scarlett Johansson, Drake, The Weeknd, and Taylor Swift have in common (besides being among this millennial’s fav celebs)? They all have the distinct displeasure of becoming a target of deepfake technology – a type...more
In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to...more
Novel technologies that seek to improve quality of life or simplify complex processes offer great promise. For example, medical technologies that detect or cure disease or supply chain technologies that allow for real time...more
Given the introduction of the ‘NO FAKES’ Act by a bi-partisan group of senators within days of U.S. Copyright Office’s release of its digital replicas report asserting an “urgent need” for more cohesive protections at the...more
After almost 2 years of negotiations over a new interactive media agreement with video game industry giants such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Co., video game performers voted to strike as of...more
On July 31, 2024, a bipartisan group of US senators introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024 to protect the voice and visual likeness rights of individuals from...more
After receiving input from thousands of stakeholders during a public comment period, the U.S. Copyright Office has released the first of four reports in its Copyright and Artificial Intelligence series, this one to address...more
On July 31, 2024, the United States Copyright Office (Copyright Office) published a report urging Congress to create a federal law protecting individuals against unauthorized artificial intelligence (AI) generated digital...more
The draft bill, circulated with bipartisan Senate support, would codify right of publicity protections for artificial intelligence (AI) creations that replicate any individual, not just those with commercially valuable...more
Introduction In a significant development for family matters in the UAE, particularly in the field of Medically Assisted Reproduction, recent amendments to Federal Law No. 7/2019 have introduced some essential provisions....more
In America we like to identify who we are by what we do. Thus, in almost every encounter when we meet new people the question turns to: “What do you do?” In my case, when the answer is 40 years of family law, the response is...more
On July 14, 2022, the European Commission (“EU Commission”) published a proposal to adopt an EU-wide Regulation on standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application...more
We recently wrote about the matter of searching one’s genetic past and some of the unusual history which that kind of testing can reveal. The Wall Street Journal’s January 3 edition informs us that in an age of advancing...more
A non-genetic, non-gestational legal parent of a child born through assisted reproductive technology (ART) outside of the United States may transmit U.S. citizenship to the child under certain circumstances, U.S. Citizenship...more