Last week was a whirlwind for anyone following the latest in tech. Stocks tumbled. Titans like OpenAI and Nvidia found themselves under scrutiny. And across the US, executives, investors, and policymakers scrambled to make sense of a massive disruption. The cause? DeepSeek, a little-known Chinese AI startup that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
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The United States Copyright Office has released a watershed report on whether and how AI-generated outputs qualify for copyright protection under current United States copyright laws. Departing from its previous policy stance, the Copyright Office now states that AI-generated outputs are eligible for copyright protection but with a key caveat: the human author requirement remains
The U.S. Copyright Office’s January 2025 report on AI and copyrightability reaffirms the longstanding principle that copyright protection is reserved for works of human authorship. Outputs created entirely by generative artificial intelligence (AI), with no human creative input, are not eligible for copyright protection. The Office offers a framework for assessing human authorship for works
This post is brought to you by ChatGPT’s Deep Research. It produced this report after about 10 minutes of thinking and searching online (sources in the footnotes). I have also used it for a couple of fairly complex legal research queries and it produces the equivalent of an article from a treatise – they
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the fourth episode of the 2025 season of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how to build
If hearing the word “prohibition” brings to mind the moonshine, speakeasies, and bootleg liquor of 1920s America, you’re not alone. It conjures images from ‘Boardwalk Empire’ or ‘The Untouchables’. But today’s prohibition isn’t about gin or whiskey – it’s about AI. With the EU’s new “prohibited AI” rules in force, entire categories of technology are
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I was downloading a government form the other day and it told me that I would need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Umm, I don’t think so. Adobe is a corporation whose tools I avoid like the plague. Also, a PDF should not need a proprietary reader in order to be accessed.
This week we welcome back Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner, founders of Gimbal Consulting, to discuss a revolutionary approach to legal efficiency. Their latest book, The Power Zone Playbook for Lawyers, provides a step-by-step guide to optimizing legal workflows, enhancing productivity, and preventing burnout. With over two decades of experience
