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- Virginia’s New Law on College Student-Athlete NIL: Is Virginia a Leader or Irrelevant?
- Would a U.S. Ban on TikTok Stand Up In Court? What Can Businesses Do if a Ban is Enacted?
- Game Over for Generative AI? It Has a Copyright Infringing Output Problem.
- Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement: What’s the Difference?
- Microsoft 365 Copilot is Here. What Are the Legal Risks of Using It?
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Virginia’s New Law on College Student-Athlete NIL: Is Virginia a Leader or Irrelevant?
During this General Assembly session, Virginia enacted a law that expands the legality of university support for student-athletes’ name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) opportunities and prohibits the NCAA from acting against them. You could argue that Virginia is the most progressive state in the country in terms of NIL rights for college student-athletes. In addition Read the full article…
Would a U.S. Ban on TikTok Stand Up In Court? What Can Businesses Do if a Ban is Enacted?
There is momentum in Congress toward banning TikTok in the U.S. or forcing its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell to a non-Chinese owner. A TikTok ban would significantly impact U.S. businesses. Would a ban pass court scrutiny? What are the options for businesses if a ban occurs? U.S. businesses advertise heavily through TikTok, and Read the full article…
Game Over for Generative AI? It Has a Copyright Infringing Output Problem.
Recent developments show that generative AIs (“GenAI”) have bigger copyright-infringement problems than initially thought. These AIs have been spitting out copies of Super Mario, RoboCop, Captain America, and New York Times stories. What does this mean for the future of GenAI and for potential liability for businesses and people using it? NYU professor Gary Marcus Read the full article…
Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement: What’s the Difference?
Trivia time: What do these celebrities have in common: Jennifer Lopez, Gigi Hadid, 50 Cent, Jessica Simpson, Khloé and Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber, and Ariana Grande? Answer: They were each sued because they reposted pictures of themselves on social media taken by professional photographers – usually photos these photographers posted on Read the full article…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Here. What Are the Legal Risks of Using It?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is here. Will it be a big timesaver for your business? Does using it present significant legal risks? Copilot adds generative AI capability to core Microsoft Office applications, such as Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint. It can be used to create, summarize, and analyze things in those applications. For example, purportedly, Read the full article…
The First Battles in the Legal War Over the Future of AI Have Begun
As of this writing, Sam Altman is still out as CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The Economist depicts this firing as a battle in the war between AI “boomers” and “doomers.” The doomers believe AI threatens humanity and must be constrained. The boomers believe this threat is overstated and that AI progress should Read the full article…
Regulating AI to Protect Society: Where Things Stand and May Be Going
Do you worry about AI destroying your future? Is there any chance that government regulation will save you? To give shape to your fear, pick your favorite dystopian sci-fi movie: o Metropolis (1927) – AI-like robot Maria is used to manipulate the working class. o 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – A spaceship’s onboard AI Read the full article…
Beware of Defamation Liability for Reposting Material on Social Media
Can you be held personally liable for reposting something defamatory on social media? A Richmond federal judge recently held you can be. The judge made this ruling in a case with jaw-dropping allegations. The case hasn’t yet gone to trial, and nothing has been proven, so I’ll refrain from giving the litigants’ real names. The Read the full article…
The Experiment Failed: AI Isn’t Yet Ready to Be a Good Document Summarizer
Have you worried about whether you are missing a trick in incorporating AI into your business? I recently did an experiment that revealed AI is not yet ready for prime time for a key function: legal document summarization. What I learned applies to summarizing any important document. I worked with a computer science Ph.D. candidate Read the full article…
When Trademark Rights Collide with Free Speech, Which Wins?
The Supreme Court recently decided a case on the balance between trademark rights and free speech, especially when parody products are at issue. The case addressed something less lofty: whiskey and dog poop. VIP Products makes a line of dog chew toys called “Silly Squeakers,” which parodies famous commercial products. One rubber toy replicates a Read the full article…