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Data Breach Defense: Mobilizing Against Weaponized Mass Arbitration Image

Data Breach Defense: Mobilizing Against Weaponized Mass Arbitration

Daniella Main & Brooke Bolender

Most companies have experienced or will experience a data breach. Increasingly, companies also face the risks associated with mass arbitration weaponized by the overwhelming volume of claims after a breach.

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Bankruptcy Risk and Fraud In Cryptocurrency

J. Eric Wise

Among the risks of cryptocurrency exchanges are bankruptcy risk and fraud, including: the inalienability of account claims, holding an unsecured claim versus an entitlement to the return of coin, and bankruptcy preference risk.

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Cryptocurrency Risk Is Not So Hidden Image

Cryptocurrency Risk Is Not So Hidden

J. Eric Wise

Cryptocurrency exchanges and law together are an evolving space. As regulation of cryptocurrency advances, and case law and practice develops, more certainty around who holds what in a cryptocurrency exchange failure will develop. In the meantime, knowing the risks, and mitigating the risks where possible, is the prudent course of action for the cryptocurrency investor and trader.

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Canada Leads In Crypto Regulations

Gail J. Cohen

FTX's collapse pushed Canada's already robust cryptocurrency regulations further, offering protection to consumers and stability for compliant platforms but resulting in some major global platforms quitting the country because they weren't willing to comply.

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Crypto Winter Leads to Explosion of Regulatory Activity

Mark Bini, Kaela Dahan & Victoria Jaus

In the past year, following the Crypto Winter, there has been an explosion of activity by United States regulators and enforcers. Crypto companies, for their part, have complained that it is not clear what digital assets, if any, are securities, and that they have not been given clear regulatory rules of the road.

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Who Is Legally Liable for Internet AI Deepfake Content? Image

Who Is Legally Liable for Internet AI Deepfake Content?

Jonathan Bick

Most agree that internet deepfake (deep learning + fake) content is widespread and may be used to manipulate the public, attack personal rights, infringe intellectual property and cause personal data difficulties. However, little agreement exists as to who is legally liable for internet AI deepfake content.

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SEC Selective Enforcement Throws Doubt On Whether Securities Rules Apply to Crypto Image

SEC Selective Enforcement Throws Doubt On Whether Securities Rules Apply to Crypto

Cassandre Coyer

Digital assets have created a jurisdictional tug of war between the SEC and the CFTC over whether cryptocurrencies should be regulated as commodities or securities. Also tugging on that rope sit those who say cryptocurrencies are neither, and need new bespoke rules.

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Bitcoin NFTs: Making the Case to Be Sole Digital Asset Protocol Image

Bitcoin NFTs: Making the Case to Be Sole Digital Asset Protocol

Cameron Pick

NFTs are unique identifiers stored on a blockchain which represent ownership of a particular asset in the digital or physical world. They are typically created and transferred on a smart contract platform such as Ethereum or Solana. However, NFTs have recently come to the Bitcoin blockchain, which is an exciting development for several reasons.

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Podcast: Crypto's Down, But It's Far From Dead Image

Podcast: Crypto's Down, But It's Far From Dead

CLS Staff

Listen in on a post-webinar chat on "The Crypto Landscape: Post-FTX," with Blockchain Legal LLP partner Aaron Krowne and counsel Ali Derie, along with veteran entertainment industry lawyer Eric S. Goldman, about cryptocurrency's rocky recent past (and present) as well as its still-promising, if uncertain, future.

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Hourly Billing in FTX Bankruptcy Already At Historically High Level Image

Hourly Billing in FTX Bankruptcy Already At Historically High Level

Ellen Bardash

Attorneys and consultants involved in the FTX bankruptcy have asked the District of Delaware bankruptcy court to approve billed hours and expenses totaling just under $37 million for the first six weeks of Chapter 11 proceedings.

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