In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming the district court’s denial of a copyright application for a AI generated picture.
This ruling has profound implications for anyone working with AI in creative
Is the EU AI Act a Jenga piece that can easily be removed from the regulatory tower?
Here are some key points from the “AI Regulation – a critical comment” workshop at the Alpine Privacy Days Conference, courtesy of Florent Thouvenin, Professor of Information and Communications Law, The Faculty of Law of the University of
On the heels of the formation of the House Privacy Working Group, Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding a Federal Privacy Law.
“The challenge of
This week I am continuing to provide some takeaways from a few of the many sessions I attended at the International Franchise Association’s Annual Convention in Las Vegas earlier this month. Google Head of Data Measurement and Analytics for WPP Agencies, Nadia Carta (“Carta”), led a super session on how franchisors and franchisees can easily
Hawaii’s State Data Office recently issued a series of guidance documents for its state agencies on how to handle artificial intelligence. This includes guidance on data protection, data retention and use of Generative AI.
For data protection, the agencies are requires to abide by principles of:
Yesterday, in the first U.S. ruling on the closely scrutinized question of fair use in the AI-related copyright litigation context, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bilbas, sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware by designation from the Third Circuit, held that U.S. copyright law did not permit Thomson Reuters’s now-defunct former competitor,
Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Melissa Holyoak spoke last week at a conference in Miami about “a new season at the FTC.”
What can we learn from Holyoak’s comments about the FTC’s plans for AI regulation and free speech?
TL;DR: AI should be facilitated, but not if it restricts competition or engages in fraud. Also, collusion
My favorite blog post of the year—where I get to assess the best commercials, track the rise in ad costs, and challenge you to identify your favorite celebrity endorsement.
This year, demand for ad space was “robust” with some 30-second ad spots going for $8 million (up from around $7 million last year), according to
The European Commission recently issued a formula for identifying Artificial Intelligence Systems:
Machine-based system
Designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy
That may exhibit adaptiveness after
President Trump signed a multitude of Executive Orders (EOs) during his first two weeks in office. EOs are directives from the President to federal agencies that do not require Congressional approval. EOs include mandates that take immediate effect and others that require some groundwork by federal agencies to effect, such as the drafting of implementing