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The State of State Privacy Laws: What Businesses Need to Know
Summer days are over and it’s time to hit the books. State legislatures were busy in 2023 making up for the U.S. Congress’s inability to pass a comprehensive privacy law.
New Comprehensive State Privacy Laws
The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (...
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Paradise Lost: No Copyright for AI-Created Works
We’ve previously written here
and here
about Dr. Stephen Thaler’s efforts to register copyright in A Recent Entrance to Paradise, a work created by his artificial intelligence (AI) system DABUS. In a motion for summary judgment filed in January, Dr....
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Companies Face a New Wave of Class Action Privacy Litigation
Plaintiffs class action lawyers have latched onto privacy litigation as their next big meal ticket. Over the past year, companies have faced a new barrage of lawsuits under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and state and federal...
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Consider Protecting Your Brands Early in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest emerging technology that is overtaking news headlines and transforming the way we live, learn, and work. The term generally refers to content created or produced by artificial intelligence algorithms, with c...
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Ninth Circuit Confirms Embedding Remains Fair Use
Every second of every day, social media and internet users repost or link to copyrighted content from other websites, or other posts. It may seem strange to even think about whether such use might be found to be other than fair. But viewed from the...
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Oregon Joins the Comprehensive State Privacy Law Elite 11
On July 18, 2023, the Oregon governor signed into law SB 619, Oregon’s Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA). OCPA is, in many ways, very similar to the other comprehensive state privacy laws1. However, in keeping with the state motto alis volat propriis (“She...
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