The legal landscape around AI and copyright remains unsettled. Forward-looking businesses will not wait for definitive case law on every issue. Instead, they will treat AI as a catalyst to modernize copyright governance: tightening practices around online content, revisiting license strategies, and building internal literacy about how copyright really works in an AI-saturated environment.
The growth firms are enjoying right now has expanded the cost base — talent, technology, real estate — faster than the operating model has adapted to support it. That gap is not closed by another lease, another mandate, another lateral, or another tool. It is closed by deliberately rebuilding the operating system for the firm that actually exists, rather than the one that existed in 2019.
By aligning legal and project teams, preserving evidence and building a credible record before the first litigation pleading is filed, companies can enter litigation with a coherent, fact-driven narrative supported by evidence that will improve their ultimate negotiation leverage.
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Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
For most of its 136-year history, Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act was more of a threat than a weapon. The provision — which prohibits the willful acquisition or maintenance of monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct — carried demanding proof requirements, required expensive and expansive discovery, and produced so few trial victories that enforcers rarely tested it. When they did, they usually lost. That calculus may be shifting.
During a recent lecture, Morrison & Foerster partner Joseph Gratz noted the potential of harnessing AI as a tool to further “human expression” and dissected the snarl of novel copyright challenges that AI song generators present to the music industry.
A growing number of law firms looked to expand their office footprints in 2025 compared to the prior year, according to a new survey from commercial real estate brokerage CBRE, a sign that the contraction in law firm real estate that began with the COVID-19 pandemic is coming to an end.
Together, EO 14365 and the National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence raise questions about the future of state and local laws governing employers’ use of AI, many of which are intended to protect against discrimination in connection with the use of AI.
For anyone in legal operations, the gap between the value of a service and the sustainability of its commercial model should be immediately recognizable. No one disputes the importance of legal expertise. What is under challenge is a billing structure that prices those services by the hour of human effort required to deliver them.
