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Potential Antitrust Risks When Using AI-Driven Pricing Tools
Companies need to seriously consider the potential antitrust risks when using AI-driven or algorithmic software-based third-party services for things such as pricing or inventory management. These tools can increase efficiency, but, depending on specifics, can also lead to serious antitrust risks.
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District Court Cautiously Affirms Five-Year Old Purdue Preliminary Injunction
This decision explains the judicial rationale for bankruptcy court preliminary injunctions.
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Law Firm Leaders Reflect on 2024 and Look Ahead to 2025
By all measures, Big Law saw more events and trends in 2024 than the legal industry may have seen in years. But was all that change in 2024 welcome, and what are law firm expectations for 2025?
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Internet Archive Won’t Pursue Supreme Court Relief Over Loss of Copyright Case to Book Publishers
The Internet Archive has stopped defending its free digital library against a publisher-launched copyright lawsuit and announced that it won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the depository is a fair use of the plaintiff publishers’ copyrights.
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What You Need to Know About PA’s Act 52
The Wholesale Real Estate Transaction Transparency and Protection Act, which requires real estate wholesalers to obtain licensing and grants additional protections to property owners in wholesale transactions, will take effect on Jan. 4, 2025.
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Exploring Gen AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property
For some, GenAI is the latest and greatest innovation, while for others, it is an existential threat. In this emerging technological landscape, there are many implications and unanswered questions regarding the protection of intellectual property rights. This article highlights some of the challenges GenAI presents, and recent developments in copyright law and trademark law in this quickly evolving space.
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Investigating Potential Misconduct Can Reduce Compliance Risks With DOJ Uncertainty
Although it remains to be seen to what extent the DOJ’s robust and aggressive approach to corporate enforcement will change in the forthcoming administration, companies should continue to take compliance seriously and make the necessary investments to prevent, detect and remediate misconduct.
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Construing Separate Contractual Instruments As One
At times, disputes arise among parties in commercial transactions as to whether multiple contracts involving a common matter should be read as a single, integrated contract, or as separate and distinct agreements. This issue often surfaces where one or more such agreements contain arbitration clauses, but other related contracts do not.
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Fresh Filings
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
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Ninth Circuit: Fully Secured, Nonrecourse Creditors Qualify As ‘Countable’ Creditors
Addressing a matter of first impression, the bankruptcy appellate panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that fully secured, nonrecourse creditors qualify as “countable” creditors for purposes of determining the viability of an involuntary bankruptcy petition under Section 303(b) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
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