As businesses increasingly turn to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to develop brand and marketing assets – such as names, logos and product designs – they face novel legal questions, including who owns the copyright or trademark rights when GenAI contributes to the creation process.

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Some inventors find their inventive spark through science fiction. Tasers, for example, were inspired by (and named after) the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.[1] Likewise, Motorola’s early cellphones were heavily influenced by the communicators in Star Trek.[2] Hugo Gernsback, the author of countless sci-fi classics and a prolific patent holder…

On March 6, the White House released its “Cyber Strategy for America.” Its goal is to “communicate[] the Trump [a]dministration’s cyber vision” and to identify “six policy pillars, which will guide action and resourcing through the follow-on policy vehicles.” Obviously, the policy pillars are nonprescriptive and will generate numerous questions from agency and industry stakeholders.…

In this issue:

• US Payments Companies Continue Crypto Acquisitions, Integrations
• Digital Asset Companies Announce IPOs, AI Initiatives, Strategic Acquisitions
• SEC Issues Interpretation Clarifying Application of Securities Laws to Crypto
• SEC Approves Pilot for Trading Tokenized Securities on US Stock Exchange
• CFTC Issues No-Action Letter to Provider of Self-Custodial Crypto Wallet
• Congressional Research Service Addresses Stablecoin

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