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It is easy to become lost in the quagmire of privacy obligations for your website. In the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States, individual states are enacting their own privacy laws. For a while it was only California, but now many other states either have enacted laws or have pending legislation. And if your website collects any personal information f [ ... ]

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On February 12, 2024, video game developer Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic”), and pop choreographer Kyle Hanagami (“Hanagami”) agreed to dismiss with prejudice a 2022 lawsuit accusing Epic of ripping off Hanagami’s dance moves for use in Epic’s popular video game “Fortnite.” The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California dismissed the lawsuit, finding that th [ ... ]

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In January 2024 Dudesy, an AI-assisted podcast, released a new hourlong special titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” featuring a version of the late comedian George Carlin (“Carlin”) allegedly generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”). Dudesy is a comedy podcast written, created and controlled by AI, and is hosted by “Mad TV” alum Will Sasso (“Sasso”) [ ... ]

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On March 12, 2024 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office delivered to Congress their highly anticipated report on Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property (the “Report”). The Report examines current and future uses of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) to secure and manage intellectual property rights.

Among the applications of NFTs c [ ... ]

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The Music Modernization Act (MMA), which took effect in October 2018, was enacted primarily to centralize musical copyright ownership by creating “blanket licenses” for certain songs. In 2021, the MMA established a nonprofit organization, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), to administer those licenses and distribute the royalties. (See our three-part insight about the [ ... ]

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On February 21, 2024, Reuters reported that the social media platform Reddit is partnering with Alphabet-owned Google to make its content available for training Google’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) models. The contract with Alphabet is estimated to be worth about $60 million per year. The announcement preceded Reddit’s February 22 filing for its Initial Public Offering [ ... ]

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