In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss what the law requires, which advertisements may be exempt, and how brands and agencies should approach compliance.
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The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed policy statement puts a new consumer-protection frame around AI model behavior: if an AI company represents that its system is designed to deliver accurate, objective, or user-directed outputs, the company may create a reasonable consumer expectation that the system is trying to provide the best answer it can within
To operate in the crypto or AI space, it is often necessary for parties to enter into a Hosting Services Agreement or Colocation Agreement to secure capacity in a data center. Those agreements can contain landmines that erupt in litigation, and unless they are quickly and satisfactorily resolved, they can threaten essential operations and cause
As part of Seyfarth’s 2026 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, our panel presented Digital Exfiltration & Departing Employees: Protecting Trade Secrets in a Modern Risk Environment, examining the growing risks organizations face as employee mobility increases and technology creates new avenues for information transfer.
Jay Carle, Marcus Mintz, and Joe Greenfield of Maryman led
As America celebrates its 250th year, the pulse of innovation that animated the Founders beats louder than ever. From the first patent debates to today’s courtroom clashes over artificial intelligence, George Washington’s legacy as a mill owner, pragmatic leader, and founding architect of the U.S. patent system remains strikingly relevant. Drawing on Washington’s own letters
Your AI platform may inspect user prompts, generated outputs, or uploaded files to improve safety or enforce your policies. That decision can create legal obligations that many AI companies do not expect.
Federal law does not require AI platforms to monitor everything their users do. But once your platform obtains actual knowledge of apparent child sexual abuse material
Your AI image model can generate content that no human ever created. That does not necessarily mean the content is legal. Many AI companies assume there is no criminal exposure if an image does not depict a real person. Federal law does not always make that distinction.
One federal statute specifically addresses certain computer-generated images, including AI-generated images, even when no actual minor exists. If your platform can generate this type of content, your compliance analysis should
Your AI model can create realistic fake images of real people. Your platform can store those images, and your users can share them with others. Those capabilities can trigger federal law, even if you think of your business as a neutral AI infrastructure provider rather than a content platform.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act creates new compliance obligations for many AI companies
In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partners Scott Hervey and Matt Sugarman discuss SAG-AFTRA’s new 2026 TV/Theatrical Agreement and the updated AI provisions shaping the future of entertainment production.
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June 8, 2026
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In a continued development of patent eligibility policy following Ex parte Desjardins, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reversed a subject-matter eligibility rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for a Microsoft invention directed to AI-assisted code-editing tools, such as GitHub Copilot. Here, in Ex parte Ziegler, Appeal No.