On February 11, 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas issued an opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., civ. no. 1:20-cv-613, a dispute regarding copyright infringement allegations stemming from the use of copyrighted data from the Westlaw legal database used in the training of an AI search tool. Judge Bibas, sitting by designation in
AI and the Future of Travel: How Tech Giants Are Again Transforming the Travel Industry in 2025
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, February 7, 2025, is below. This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including details on Expedia’s recent quarterly earnings release, news of recent layoffs at TripAdvisor and a heavy does of AI related stories.
Given recent conversations
Washington State Court of Appeals Upholds $24.6 Million Penalty Against Meta for Not Meeting State Political Advertising Disclosure Requirements – A Warning to All Media Companies to Assess and Comply with State Political Disclosure Rules
Washington DC is not the only place where there are regulatory or political decisions made that affect broadcasters and advertising for candidates or political issues. We’ve written many times about state laws that govern the use of AI in political advertising, with more than 20 states already having laws on their books and more considering
AI's Impact on Travel: OpenAI's "Operator" Tool and Its Disruptive Potential
Good Saturday morning from Seattle . . . Nice to be back in balmy (25°) Seattle after a week working in frigid New York.
This week’s Update presents yet another announcement by yet another generative AI platform about yet another AI tool that has direct application to (and is likely to have a major disruptive
Online Travel Update: TripAdvisor's AI Partnership & Corporate Travel Merger Developments
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 17, 2025, is below. Other than Perplexity’s newly announced partnership with TripAdvisor (readers, please read the story below), this past week was relatively quiet as the industry (and the world) waits with anticipation (or for some, bated
The Importance of Opting In: Pitfalls of AI Enablement Without Client Buy-In
Imagine you’re an associate at a consulting firm. You’re surprised to see a new “AI Assist” button appear in your email application one morning. Without any training or guidance from your firm’s IT department, you decide to try it out, asking the AI to draft a response to a client’s inquiry about tax implications for
2025 Travel Trends and Updates: AI's Impact, UK Travel Changes, and a Focus on Safety
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our first Online Travel Update for 2025 is below. The past two weeks produced a number of interesting stories, including the Department of Justice’s attempt to stop the planned Amex GBT / CWT merger, interesting predictions coming out of Skift’s recent Megatrends events and valuable reminders for
The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 23, 2024 to January 3, 2025
We took last week off for the holidays and today bring you the regulatory developments of interest to broadcasters from the past two weeks, which we discuss below with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The Commission released a Report and Order
Looking Into the Crystal Ball – What Legal and Policy Issues are Ahead for Broadcasters in 2025?
It’s a new year, and as has been our custom at the beginning of each year, we dust off the crystal ball and take a look at what we think may be some of the significant regulatory and legislative issues that broadcasters will be facing in 2025. This year, there is an extra layer of
NEW LAWS TO REGULATE DEEPFAKE IMAGES
As a result of advances in artificial intelligence, it is now possible to digitally create realistic images of people that are indistinguishable from their actual images. In response, California has enacted two new laws, AB 2602 and AB 1836 recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The laws are meant to protect persons from the unauthorized