It has been more than a year since Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., was decided in which four Recentive patents covering machine-learning-generated TV broadcast schedules and network maps —...
The adoption of generative AI has fundamentally shifted how businesses operate. Millions of professionals feed data into AI chatbots every day to draft communications, optimize software, or analyze...
Short answer: maybe. As of early 2026, the law surrounding AI and fair use is in a state of active transition. Federal courts are still figuring out the contours of copyright law given the new AI...
Privacy law is complicated. While U.S. courts have generally refused to recognize personal data as a traditional property right, the right to privacy is a tantamount constitutional right with high...
The question of who – or what – can be an author has become one of the most contentious issues in modern copyright law. As artificial intelligence systems generate increasingly sophisticated creative...
Consistency in intellectual property regimes is essential for a uniform practice of those intellectual property laws. Case in point is Thaler v. Perlmutter, a copyright case holding that works...
On January 31, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office issued examination guidelines related to registration of works either assisted or generated by artificial intelligence tools. This blog discussed these...
The U.S. Copyright Office issued its second report on issues related to registration of works using artificial intelligence (AI). The second report, issued on January 29, 2025, discusses...
It was announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the federal agency responsible for enforcement of federal drug laws, will take up the recommendation from the U.S. Health and...
The issues where technology and intellectual property laws collide were discussed in the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC, decided on July 17, 2023. In Hunley, the Ninth Circuit...