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Meta’s Use of Copyrighted Books to Train LLMs Ruled ‘Fair Use,’ But Ruling Limited
July 01, 2025
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.
Five State Privacy Laws Went Into Effect In 2025: Here’s What You Need to Know
July 01, 2025
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.
As Restaurants Roll Out AI, Cyber Risks Are On the Menu
July 01, 2025
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.
Med Tech Patent Case Offers Examples for AI Enabled Innovation In Any Industry
July 01, 2025
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.
Improving Your Cybersecurity Today: 10 Tips to Take Your Firm’s Security from Good to Great
July 01, 2025
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.
Garbage In, Garbage Out: AI Is Only as Good as the Data You Feed It
July 01, 2025
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.
Gen AI In e-Discovery: The Now, the Next and the Never
July 01, 2025
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.
Legal Issues Surround AI Use In Advertising
June 01, 2025
Advertising is increasingly targeted at specific consumers. Targeted advertising depends upon data about consumers that customizes the advertisement that consumers receive. AI use in advertising targets results in legal difficulties, primarily unlawful discrimination and privacy violations.
DOJ Regulation to Protect Americans’ Personal Data Takes Effect
June 01, 2025
In a show of continuity between administrations, the Biden-era Executive Order 14117 — designed to restrict foreign access to Americans’ most sensitive personal data — has been allowed to take effect in the second Trump administration.The Department of Justice’s implementing regulation for this Order, finalized in late December 2024, became enforceable in April 2025.
How a Vet-Owned AI Company Safeguarded Its IP
June 01, 2025
Military-owned businesses often possess unique technological advantages derived from years of research, development, and practical application. These innovations, ranging from advanced materials to sophisticated software, can be valuable assets in the commercial marketplace. One veteran-owned company’s journey — combined with a patent attorney’s experience preparing and filing patent applications — provides valuable insight into what veterans should do to safeguard their intellectual property.

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  • Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
    This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
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  • Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
    With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
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  • Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery
    Although the court stressed that, by vacating certain of former NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's counts of conviction, it was clarifying and not altering the "as opportunities arise" theory, it nevertheless emphasized that this theory requires particularity with respect to the "question or matter" that is the subject of the bribe payor and recipient's corrupt agreement.
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