Should AI in the law be controlled by the people who use AI versus the companies that build it and develop solutions for it? People in the law meaning legal professionals and the public.
The New York Times’ Cade Metz reports,
“A year ago, Igor Babuschkin left xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded with the tech mogul Elon…
As a practicing lawyer in the 90’s running AOL’s legal community on AOL, a community where lawyers helped people faced with legal challenges, and later started my own company to do the same, lawyers raised any number of reasons why this couldn’t be done.
Twenty years ago, lawyers told me blogs and digital publishing would never work in legal. You’d…
Need the head of Anthropic’s “Claude for Legal” have experience practicing law?
A number of lawyers commenting on LinkedIn have called out Anthropic for last week’s appointment of Robert Mahari, who has mostly worked in academia, for not having the legal experience lawyers in a law firm would bring to Anthropic.
As Richard Tromans of Artificial Lawyer reports,…
In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the legal rules governing talent representation and explain why the distinction between a manager and an unlicensed talent agent can have significant consequences for artists and their representatives.
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In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. return to copyright fundamentals and explain how these rules affect creators, businesses, developers, filmmakers, and anyone commissioning creative work.
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In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara J. Sattler break down Cesari S.R.L. v. Peju Province Winery L.P., a long-running dispute involving the LIANO and LIANA wine marks.
The Second Circuit vacated a judgment against Peju after finding that the earlier Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision did not consider how the companies…
In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara J. Sattler break down the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, which reversed a $1 billion judgment against the internet service provider.
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In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss what the law requires, which advertisements may be exempt, and how brands and agencies should approach compliance.
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Longtime blogger at PressThink, media critic, and journalism academic, Jay Rosen announced this week he has started his own Internet archive. I say all things Jay, as he is archiving everything you can find online by him or on him by clicking on it.
Currently the Archive holds 26,615 “records” that reach back to 1986, which is when he…
Each author in The Library at LexBlog has an Author Record. Ten fields establishing their authority. Every library needs to have author records to track identity. The Library of Congress keeps one, called the Name Authority Record, and we modeled The Library on theirs.
An Author Record is more important than ever in the days of AI. We’re moving from…
