5/29/2025 7:13:36 PM Influencer Trade Dress: The Battle of the Beige By Nate Garhart A recent settlement between social media influencers ended a dispute that could have tested an issue at the outer edges of intellectual...
5/29/2025 6:46:22 PM Turbulent Tariff Tempest Continues... By Jeff Hamilton Imagine being a wine importer trying to lock in summer rosé allocations right now. While the ruling offers a glimmer of hope, the...
5/28/2025 7:14:15 PM Click To It: Enforcement of FTC's Click-to-Cancel Rule to Begin on July 14 By Nate Garhart On July 14, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will begin enforcing its new “Click-to-Cancel” rule, designed to make it easier for...
5/27/2025 6:02:39 PM Lawyers Aren't the Only Ones Falling Into the AI-Hallucination Trap By Nate Garhart The journalism industry has long expressed concern about losing jobs to AI—and with good reason. Much of the content circulating online...
5/23/2025 6:12:27 PM Pirated Data and Fair Use: A Fault Line in the AI Copyright Wars By Nate Garhart A notable moment in the ongoing litigation over the use of copyrighted materials as AI training data emerged this week when U.S. District...
5/22/2025 5:51:48 PM Another AI-Hallucination Issue in Legal Filings: Claude Mis-Titles Cited Work By Nate Garhart In one of the latest legal filings containing incorrect information generated by artificial intelligence, the hallucination was not of...
5/21/2025 2:53:55 AM AI-Generated Music Presents Complex Copyright Issues By Nate Garhart As the use of generative artificial intelligence continues to expand into creative industries, the music world is entering a particularly...
5/20/2025 5:18:56 PM Work Made for Hire vs. Assignment: Why It Matters in Services Agreements By Nate Garhart When companies hire independent contractors to provide services that include the creation of content—whether it’s code, copy, video, or...
5/20/2025 1:01:54 AM California Employer Tips to Reduce Risk of a Wage & Hour Class Action Suit By Kevin Jones Recent Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) reform reduced some potential penalties for California employers facing wage and hour class...
5/19/2025 6:06:35 PM Ninth Circuit Upholds the ABC Test for Employee Classification By Kevin Jones The Ninth Circuit rejected another constitutional challenge to AB5, which codified the ABC test for employee classification. This case...
5/19/2025 5:26:05 PM CalRecycle releases updated draft regulations to implement SB 54, California’s EPR law applicable to single-use packaging and plastic food service ware By Chris Rendall-Jackson On May 16, 2025, CalRecycle released updated draft regulations to implement SB 54, which is California’s extended producer responsibility...
5/16/2025 7:19:31 PM 4th Circuit Gives Clarity on Temporal Proximity Arguments in Retaliation Claims By Ryan Wessels Employees seeking to establish retaliation claims often rely on the “temporal proximity” between the protected activity and the adverse...