AI copyright memorization now drives real product risk, not academic debate. A new paper, Extracting books from production language models, reports a method for pulling long blocks of in-copyright book text from several production-grade language models. 
Model output matters because it sits in front of customers. If a model reproduces protected text, plaintiffs can frame…

Influencer marketing drives real-world consumer behavior. In situations where followers believe an endorsement is genuine, it shapes how they spend money and what products they trust. That’s why the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates influencer endorsements under its Endorsement Guides, which were updated in 2023 to clarify rules across social platforms.
The area of concern…

There is currently no comprehensive federal statute specifically governing AI; however, regulatory agencies and state legislatures have issued guidance, enforcement actions, and laws that collectively form a developing patchwork of AI-related regulations. Founders face conflicting obligations from state legislatures, federal agencies, and political shifts that swing with each administration. 
The Biden administration issued a non-binding…

Intellectual property rights are legal claims to non-physical assets. These rights give businesses the power to protect, license, and commercialize the products of human effort, whether that effort produces code, content, designs, formulas, or data sets. 
IP rights are enforced under different legal systems: patents and copyrights are primarily federal, trademarks can be protected under…

AI is no longer a theory in the legal field; it’s an operational infrastructure. Many law firms are experimenting with AI for research, drafting, e-discovery, and analytics, though adoption varies by practice area and firm size. But with new tools come new risks. This article explains where AI fits in legal services today, what it…

Deepfake technology creates synthetic images, videos, and audio that mimic real people with near-perfect accuracy. What started as novelty content now powers scams, impersonation, political interference, and nonconsensual pornography. The threat is no longer hypothetical. The law is working to catch up. 
While there is still no broad federal ban on all deepfakes, Congress passed…

AI models are generating content at scale and pulling data from copyrighted sources to do it. That’s triggered lawsuits across publishing, photography, code, and music, most of which remain unresolved. This article unpacks the legal fault lines: how the law views training data, who owns AI outputs, and how companies can limit their copyright exposure. …