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AI Regulation In the U.S.: What's Coming, and What You Need to Do, Part 2 Image

AI Regulation In the U.S.: What's Coming, and What You Need to Do, Part 2

Kim Peretti, Dan Felz & Alysa Austin

Part Two of a Two-Part Article In Part One, last month, the authors addressed the industries most affected by AI, and began the discussion on U.S. federal and state regulations to expect in 2023. Part Two continues the discussion on potential federal AI regulation and what companies can do to prepare.

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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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AI Regulation: What's Coming and What You Need to Do Image

AI Regulation: What's Coming and What You Need to Do

Kim Peretti, Dan Felz & Alysa Austin

Part One of a Two-Part Article Despite the steady growth of global AI adoption, there is no comprehensive federal legislation on AI in the United States. Instead, the U.S. has a patchwork of various current and proposed AI regulatory frameworks. It is critical for organizations looking to harness this novel technology to understand these frameworks and to prepare to operate in compliance with them.

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How to Avoid Running Afoul of Privacy Laws Image

How to Avoid Running Afoul of Privacy Laws

Dan Panitz & Jerry McIver

Privacy laws and enforcement are causing big changes to global commerce and have now arrived at our doorstep. The million dollar questions are how this will affect our businesses and what, if anything, do we need to do about it?

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Will Section 230 Protect AI Chatbots? Image

Will Section 230 Protect AI Chatbots?

Cassandre Coyer

The lack of answers from the Supreme Court regarding the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act comes at a time when legal questions around generative AI are mushrooming.

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ITC General Exclusion Orders Targeting All Importers Are On the Rise Image

ITC General Exclusion Orders Targeting All Importers Are On the Rise

Daniel Muino, Brian Busey & Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj

In recent years, the ITC has issued more General Exclusion Orders (GEOs) than in the past. For importers of products potentially implicated by a requested GEO, the GEO can be a major threat even if the importer is not a respondent in the case.

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IP Considerations for ITC General Exclusion Orders Image

IP Considerations for ITC General Exclusion Orders

Daniel Muino, Brian Busey & Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj

In recent years, the ITC has issued more General Exclusion Orders (GEOs) than in the past. For IP owners facing infringing imported products from numerous elusive sources, a GEO can be a powerful remedy to tackle all infringing products at once.

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Ticket Resellers' Campaign Raises Securities Law and Money Laundering Issues Image

Ticket Resellers' Campaign Raises Securities Law and Money Laundering Issues

Chris Castle

Some markets allow for the sale of a future contract for tickets that have not gone on sale as yet (i.e., "speculative ticketing"). The future contract, like an option or a commodities future, allows someone to purchase the right to buy a ticket once the tickets are offered for sale. This seems to implicate securities law issues, broker-dealer regulations and potentially the general solicitation rule.

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Rule 10b-5 Liability: The Second Circuit and 'Rio Tinto' Image

Rule 10b-5 Liability: The Second Circuit and 'Rio Tinto'

Anthony Michael Sabino

Part Three of a Three-Part Article The first two installments exposited Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders and Lorenzo v. S.E.C., both essential to understanding S.E.C. v. Rio Tinto, the Second Circuit's most recent holding regarding Rule 10b-5 "scheme" liability. Now we examine how the "Mother Court" of federal securities law has tended to that branch of the mighty judicial oak rooted in that venerable regulation.

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Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing: A Quagmire Neither the Supreme Court Nor the U.S. Sentencing Commission Can Continue to Avoid Image

Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing: A Quagmire Neither the Supreme Court Nor the U.S. Sentencing Commission Can Continue to Avoid

Harry Sandick & Nicole Scully

It has been common knowledge to criminal practitioners for years that a criminal defendant's sentence for a crime which they have been convicted can be increased based on consideration of conduct that the jury acquitted. This outcome can make a partial acquittal in federal court into a pyrrhic victory.

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