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Meta’s Use of Copyrighted Books to Train LLMs Ruled ‘Fair Use,’ But Ruling Limited
A federal judge handed Meta a major win on June 24 in a closely watched copyright case over its use of books to train large language models, but the ruling stopped well short of giving tech companies blanket protection to scrape creative works for artificial intelligence.
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Challenges and Evolving Role for Legal Ops Pros In AI and Tech Environment
The role of legal operations professionals is changing as their responsibilities grow and they contend with new and potentially disruptive technologies.
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Five State Privacy Laws Went Into Effect In 2025: Here’s What You Need to Know
Five new state privacy laws took effect in January 2025 — Delaware (DPDPA), Iowa (ICDPA), Nebraska (NDPA), New Hampshire (NHPA), and New Jersey (NJDPA) — adding to the compliance maze for businesses operating across state lines. This latest wave of legislation creates a patchwork of requirements that include critical variations in three key areas: applicability thresholds, covered data categories and enforcement protocols.
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As Restaurants Roll Out AI, Cyber Risks Are On the Menu
A quick-service restaurant holding company’s plans to use artificial intelligence to enhance customers’ ordering experience is highlighting a new era of cyber liability risks. Data privacy concerns continue to drive lawsuits, and plaintiffs’ attorneys continue to seek creative ways to litigate privacy violations alongside rapidly evolving AI technologies, often bringing claims under laws that predate the internet itself.
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Med Tech Patent Case Offers Examples for AI Enabled Innovation In Any Industry
While the case discussed in this article involved medical health technology, the implicated issues inform patent strategies for AI enabled inventions across all industries. Patent applicants should expect to see reliance by the Patent Office not only on its 2019 Guidance but also on its examples illustrating application of the guidance in the context of AI related innovation.
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Improving Your Cybersecurity Today: 10 Tips to Take Your Firm’s Security from Good to Great
This two-part series summarizes modern security practices as advised by NIST’s latest guidelines, a framework that prioritizes proactive, resilient and user-friendly strategies. Part One of the series, published in last month’s issue, offered 10 must-know tips to improve personal cybersecurity; Part Two shares 10 tips to take your firm or organization’s security from good to great.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: AI Is Only as Good as the Data You Feed It
As AI continues its rapid march through the legal industry, law firms are facing a new kind of strategic imperative. No longer is the question whether to use AI — but rather how to do so responsibly, effectively and competitively.
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Gen AI In e-Discovery: The Now, the Next and the Never
Generative AI is reshaping e-Discovery workflows, with technology-assisted review evolving from using established continuous active learning methods to advanced large language models. As this transformation unfolds, understanding precisely what is realistic now, what’s imminent on the horizon, and what remains purely speculative is essential for legal professionals and e-Discovery technologists alike.
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Enforcing Conservation Easements
In Peconic Land Trust, Inc. v Salvatore, the Second Department affirmed the Motion Court’s grant of summary judgment upholding the notice provisions in a conservation easement and held that the landowner’s failure to notify the land trust before they cut down trees that were protected by that conservation easement was a material violation of the easement. The Second Department affirmed Justice Pastoressa’s decision and held that the land trust was entitled to judgment “compelling the restoration of the [protected] property to the condition that existed prior to such violation.”
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Third Circuit: A Claim’s Enforceability Is Evaluated As of the Petition Date, Not When Objection Filed
In the case of In re Promise Healthcare Group, the Third Circuit, addressing an unresolved question within the circuit, recently held that a claim’s enforceability is evaluated as of the petition date, not at the time an objection to the claim is filed.
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