A trademark battle that pitted technology giant OpenAI against a company known as Open AI (note the space between the terms) has resulted in a summary judgment that has ordered the smaller enterprise to cease use of the name and its prized internet real estate, open.ai.
In late July, two important decisions came down from courts in the Northern District of California regarding the unauthorized use of copyrighted material for the training of large language models. No real consensus has emerged as to the effect they will have on the broader AI litigation landscape.
Legal technology is in the middle of a paradigm shift — one where firms are no longer satisfied with incremental fixes and point solutions. Instead, they’re seeking transformation: of systems, workflows, and outcomes. Nowhere is that transformation more urgent — or more impactful — than in how firms manage the revenue lifecycle.
ALM teamed up with AI legal experts at McDermott Will & Emery to create a comprehensive treatise on all things AI and the law, covering the gamut of legal areas that AI touches, from the history of AI to its impact on intellectual property, employment law, data privacy, ethics, contracts, torts, risk mitigation, as well as gather all of the U.S. federal and state laws on AI as well as international laws and industry standards in one place.
While the EU AI Act certainly deserves compliments for both its pioneering nature and numerous thoughtful provisions aimed at the efficient and effective regulation of modern AI, it is not without its drawbacks.
In the months and years ahead, Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, will increasingly give way to AEO, Answer Engine Optimization. The latter focuses on helping AI-powered search engines understand and cite your content in their direct answers.
While the EU AI Act certainly deserves compliments for both its pioneering nature and numerous thoughtful provisions aimed at the efficient and effective regulation of modern AI, it is not without its drawbacks.
Denmark aims to make EU history by using copyright law — not privacy rules — to crack down on deepfakes and protect personal likenesses, diverging from the approaches adopted in the U.S. and other nations.
For attorneys, especially those working in and around state governments, where lobbying and practicing law often go hand-in-hand, the writing on the wall is clear: manual research and traditional legal software are not optimized for these tasks. This is why generative AI is starting to establish a presence in the legal and lobbying industries.
The more we become commodities — and most legal marketers are happy to assist in this process — then the less we can charge our clients, the less we can match up with the right clients, and the easier we are to be replaced by AI. The old tricks that fooled Google will soon stop working.
