This week, a federal court in Tennessee transferred to California a lawsuit brought by several large music publishers against a California-based AI company, Anthropic PBC. Plaintiffs in Concord Music Group et al. v. Anthropic PBC[1] allege that Anthropic infringed the music publishers’ copyrights by improperly using copyrighted song lyrics to train Claude, its generative AI
Almost eight months since taking full effect, the EU’s enforcement agenda for the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is coming into focus. The European Commission (EC) has launched several in-depth and ex officio cases, and reviewed over 150 notifications.
Late last month, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released four draft publications regarding actions taken by the agency following President Biden’s executive order on AI (the “Order”; see our prior alert here)[1] and call for action within six months of the Order. Adding to NIST’s mounting portfolio
There has been a push at the state and federal level to regulate AI-generated deepfakes that use the voices and likenesses of real people without their approval. This legislative momentum stems from a series of high profile incidents involving deepfakes that garnered public attention and concern. Last year, an AI-generated song entitled “Heart on My
In our Alert Memorandum of 19 July 2022 (available here), we outlined the European Commission’s (the “Commission”) proposal for a regulation on the “European Health Data Space” (the “Regulation” or the “EHDS”). The proposal, which was published in May 2022, is the first of nine European sector- and domain-specific data spaces set out by
On April 15, 2024, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) launched the Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosure for Individuals (“the Individual VSD Pilot Program”), which represents the latest in a string of announcements by DOJ focused on catching companies and individuals that engage in corporate crime.
On 11 April 2024, the CMA published an update paper (the Update Paper) in relation to its initial review of AI Foundation Models (FMs). An accompanying technical update report (the Technical Update Report) was published on 16 April 2024, providing further detail on market developments and feedback from stakeholder engagement. These updates follow the CMA’s
On April 17, 2024, the former Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, published a report outlining the future of the EU’s single market (the “Report”).[1] Letta proposed significant reforms, including the addition of a fifth freedom to spur innovation, consolidation in key sectors to enhance global competitiveness, and a new framework for State aid
On March 18, 2024, the SEC announced two enforcement actions against investment advisers for so-called “AI-washing” and violations of the Marketing Rule. Using the playbook from the Enforcement Division’s “green-washing” cases in the ESG space, the SEC found that the two investment advisers marketed that they were using AI in certain ways, when in fact,
On March 7, 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) handed down its judgment in the IAB Europe case, answering a request for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Brussels Market Court.[1] The case revolves around IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (“TCF”) and has been