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February 02, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Copyright, Online Promotions, Advertising
Social Links: AI Continues to Make the Headlines in 2024
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez
Welcome to 2024 from Socially Aware! We’ve been tracking developments in the law and business of social media and related topics from end of last year into the beginning of the new year. Here are some of the trending developments that have caught our
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January 08, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence
Social Links: January 2024
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez
As we enter 2024 at Socially Aware, here are a few items we’ve been tracking on the social media and AI fronts from the end of last year and the beginning of this year. The European Union voted to enact a new law to
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November 20, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, Social Media Policy, Supreme Court
Social Links
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Anthony M. Ramirez and Julie O'Neill
While generative AI seems to be getting all of the attention these days, the medical field is another area where AI is gaining traction. Axios reports about a partnership between Elsevier and OpenEvidence that’s helping doctors use generative AI to use medical research to
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October 20, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Federal Government Interest in AI Continues.
You can’t seem to turn on the TV, listen to the radio, or open a newspaper these days without hearing about the merits and potential risks of AI—and the federal government is paying attention. Here are some recent examples: In September, the Review Board
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October 20, 2023 - Copyright, Artificial Intelligence
Reuters v. ROSS: District Court First to Consider Whether Training Generative AI Model Is Fair Use
By: Aaron P. Rubin
A federal district court in Delaware has issued a summary judgment ruling in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. The decision addresses several important issues: (1) copyright preemption defenses against terms of use violations; (2) whether a plaintiff who has registered
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July 25, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Leaders Commit to White House Supported Guidelines
By: Tessa Schwartz
In coordination with the White House , several leaders in the artificial intelligence (AI) space have publicly committed to a voluntary set of guidelines relating to responsible development and deployment of AI. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI made immediate public commitments
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June 29, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, Ethics
In the Crosshairs: The Legal Industry Grapples with the Application and Ethics of AI
By: Aaron P. Rubin, Anthony M. Ramirez and Julie O'Neill
In May 2023, Steven Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman admitted that he used a generative AI (GAI) platform to produce six non-existent court decisions as citations during his representation in a personal injury case against Avianca Airlines. He has since issued regrets and
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April 26, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, Data Security
Key Issues in Generative AI Transactions
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Over the past year, we have seen a dramatic increase in the adoption of AI technologies across industries. Because transactions involving AI technologies can resemble those involving traditional software, like SaaS agreements, parties often assume that their expectations from those standard agreements about what
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March 03, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, Copyright
Copyright Office Denies Claim to Copyright in Generative AI Images
By: Joseph C. Gratz
The U.S. Copyright Office has denied an attempt to register copyright in images created using the Midjourney generative AI tool. The reasoning of its decision sharply limits the potential paths to receiving copyright in images created using generative AI tools, even where that output
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February 15, 2023 - Copyright, Artificial Intelligence
Are Outputs of Ai Models Copyrightable?
By: Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz and Aaron P. Rubin
Heather Whitney, Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz, and Aaron Rubin authored an article for Law360 covering whether the outputs of generative artificial intelligence tools are copyrightable. Read the full article.
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Topic Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Social Links: AI Continues to Make the Headlines in 2024

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez

Social Links: January 2024

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Julie O'Neill and Anthony M. Ramirez

Social Links

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Anthony M. Ramirez and Julie O'Neill

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Federal Government Interest in AI Continues.

Reuters v. ROSS: District Court First to Consider Whether Training Generative AI Model Is Fair Use

By: Aaron P. Rubin

AI Leaders Commit to White House Supported Guidelines

By: Tessa Schwartz

In the Crosshairs: The Legal Industry Grapples with the Application and Ethics of AI

By: Aaron P. Rubin, Anthony M. Ramirez and Julie O'Neill

Key Issues in Generative AI Transactions

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Copyright Office Denies Claim to Copyright in Generative AI Images

By: Joseph C. Gratz

Are Outputs of Ai Models Copyrightable?

By: Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz and Aaron P. Rubin