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Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Ownership and Fair Use Image

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Ownership and Fair Use

Shaleen J. Patel & Sushmitha Rajeevan

Machine learning allows certain AI to create entirely new content based upon the materials it used to learn. In the process of creating new content, AI may create copies of copyrighted works in memory storage as a byproduct of its overall output sequence. This article explores authorship and ownership of such AI-generated content, and to what extent, if any, can copyrights be infringed upon when AI reproduces copyrighted works for machine learning.

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Real Property Law

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Conditional Payments Do Not Restart Statute Of Limitations On Foreclosure Action Questions of Fact About Purchasers' Good Faith In Making Mortgage Applications Questions of Fact Remain on Implied Easement Claims Presumption of Hostility Supports Adverse Possession Claim Questions of Fact Remain About County's Liability for Fuel Oil Discharge

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Legal Tech: Spring 2020 E-Discovery and Privacy Case Review Image

Legal Tech: Spring 2020 E-Discovery and Privacy Case Review

Mike Hamilton

This quarter's review will take a look at data in three formats: text messages, paper records and overseas email disputes.

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Development

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Prohibition of Advertising Sign Upheld Failure to Consider Rezoning Application Not Subject to Judicial Review

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Open Questions Regarding Disallowance Under Section 502(d)

Paul A. Rubin & Hanh V. Huynh

The intra-district divide in the Southern District of New York continued to deepen on the issue of whether claims disallowance under section 502(d) of the Bankruptcy Code applies to the claim or to the claimant.

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"VARA-90": What Landlords Can Do to Stop the Aerosol Spread … of Graffiti Artists' Claims Image

"VARA-90": What Landlords Can Do to Stop the Aerosol Spread … of Graffiti Artists' Claims

Joseph I. Farca

How did the artists qualify for protection under the Visual Artists Rights Act, how could the owners know whether the artists had achieved "recognized stature" warranting prevention of their works' destruction, and what could the owners have done to avoid liability while retaining the right to dispose of their properties as they saw fit?

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Players On the Move

Kibkabe Araya

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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You've Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It – Binding Settlement Agreement Defeats A Post-Settlement Judgment Image

You've Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It – Binding Settlement Agreement Defeats A Post-Settlement Judgment

Rudy Kim & Chris Han

Holding that the parties' executed agreement mooted the issues in the case, the Federal Circuit recently reversed a district court's decision to grant summary judgment of non-infringement despite the parties' agreement. The decision builds upon prior Federal Circuit case law giving effect to settlement agreements.

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Prosecuting PPP Fraud May Be Harder Than It Seems

Christopher M. Ferguson

This article discusses what tools the government has for pursuing seemingly undeserving PPP borrowers, the obstacles to bringing such cases, and the factors that may influence the government's decision in pursuing criminal or civil cases.

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Preparing for State Bankruptcies

Samantha Stokes

It's no secret that major law firm bankruptcy practices are ramping up for a historic rise in Chapter 11 filings as industries are battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Controversial comments by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in April raised the possibility that restructuring lawyers could also gain a new clientele: state governments.

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