Fresh off the heels of strikes by both the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) that effectively halted the making of movies and TV shows for much of 2023, Hollywood’s next big labor dispute is brewing.
On July 25, 2024, SAG-AFTRA announced…
In the contemporary digital ecosystem, the lines between personalization and privacy often blur, specifically when involving advanced technologies such as gaze and eye tracking. As we interact with various technologies from smartphones to AR devices, our gaze becomes a valuable metric, one that could enhance user experience but also raise significant privacy concerns.…
The customer service agent sympathetically responding to your chat messages about a delayed order, the player fiercely competing against you in an online match, the coach sending you motivational messages and workout advice: are these real people you’re interacting with over the internet or bots? Does it matter?
With the recent advances in generative AI,…
Introduction
The chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), released a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) on April 7, 2024. This announcement of a bipartisan, bicameral bill for…
The explosive growth of generative AI has been accompanied by a corresponding growth of contractual provisions addressing generative AI issues.
Website operators in particular are increasingly seeking to use their online terms of service to prohibit the use of content and information hosted on their sites to train AI systems. Disney, for example, recently updated…
In the fall of 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) each ratified new agreements, amending and building upon their collective bargaining agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The WGA, a union that represents film and TV writers,…
What a great opportunity to speak and learn about today’s hot topics in sports law at New York University, School of Law, Sports Law Association’s 13th Annual Sports Law Colloquium on April 5, 2024. Like Brooklyn Law School’s third annual Sports Law Symposium, Sports Tech: a Sports Lawyer’s Playbook, NYU Law’s Colloquium covered the…
On April 4, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new report, titled “Banking in Video Games and Virtual Worlds” (Report), that examines the growth of financial transactions in online video games and virtual worlds. The CFPB has previously signaled the expansion of its monitoring capabilities to new markets, and this Report continues…
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology becomes ubiquitous, news stories regarding the use (and abuse) of deepfakes—that is, AI-generated media used to impersonate real individuals—are increasingly common.
For example, in January, sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift proliferated on social media, prompting X (formerly Twitter) to temporarily lock all searches for the singer’s name…
2023 was a breakout year for generative artificial intelligence (AI), but it was a rough year for protecting the content generated using such technology. The U.S. Copyright Office issued several rulings last year on the question of when works generated using AI technology are protected under U.S. copyright law, and so far, applicants have not…
