New Media and Technology Law Blog

On August 11, 2026, the Colorado Attorney General proposed rules to “clarify and implement” the Colorado AI Act. For organizations and other deployers of AI tools that have previously considered most state AI regulation as not particularly relevant to their operations, the Colorado law’s hybrid approach should feel different. 

Back in May 2026, Colorado Governor…

  • AI agents create contracting and pricing issues for both traditional licensed software and SaaS by weakening the assumptions behind per-seat and other usage-based pricing arrangements.
  • As organizations deploy agents that can act autonomously and generate substantial usage, the parties to software license and SaaS agreements will have to address how agent access should be authorized,

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Key Points:

□ The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) negotiated a stipulated settlement with Shutterstock in connection with its subscription billing and cancellation practices in connection with its stock content services.

□ In settling the allegations, Shutterstock will pay $35 million and be subject to injunctive provisions requiring clear and conspicuous disclosure of all material terms…

On March 20, 2026, the White House announced a comprehensive national legislative framework (the “Framework”) that tracks with its December 2025 AI Preemption Executive Order and its July 2025 AI Action Plan and takes aim at hot-button AI policy topics such as child safety and privacy, AI training and copyright, liability protections and preemption of state…

A recently-filed federal court complaint tests the enforceability of restrictive terms in a data license against the use of licensed data for generative AI purposes. The outcome of this case may turn on interpreting broad terms such as training, internal research, distribution and publication.

UPDATE: On December 18, 2025, the court denied defendant Alexi Technologies…

  • Law establishes national prohibition against nonconsensual online publication of intimate images of individuals, both authentic and computer-generated.
  • First federal law regulating AI-generated content.
  • Creates requirement that covered platforms promptly remove depictions upon receiving notice of their existence and a valid takedown request.
  • For many online service providers, complying with the Take It Down Act’s notice-and-takedown

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After several weeks of handwringing about the fate of SB 1047 – the controversial AI safety bill that would have required developers of powerful AI models and entities providing the computing resources to train such models to put appropriate safeguards and policies into place to prevent critical harms – California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that…

On September 17, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2602 into California law (to be codified at Cal. Lab. Code §927).  The law addresses the use of “digital replicas” of performers.  As defined in the law, a digital replica is:

a computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representation that is readily identifiable as the voice or visual…