On April 22, 2025, the National Football League (NFL) filed an amicus brief asking the United States Supreme Court to take on a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) class action case against the National Basketball Association (NBA). In my last post, we covered a recent VPPA lawsuit against a movie theater company and reviewed
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With Enough Human Contribution, AI-Generated Outputs May Be Copyright Protectable
By Daniel Lass on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
After several months of delays, the U.S. Copyright Office has published part two of its three-part report on the copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI). This part, entitled “Copyrightability,” focuses on whether AI-generated content is eligible for copyright protection in the U.S.
An output generated with the assistance of AI is eligible for…
After Supreme Court Upholds Ban, Trump Issues EO Giving TikTok an Extension
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Despite bipartisan support for banning TikTok – essentially spyware presenting a national security threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in the United States (as done by India) and the Supreme Court’s upholding of the law as constitutional and requiring the app to go dark, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) during…
United States Supreme Court Considers Whether to Weigh in on Circuit Split in Data Breach Actions
By Carrie Turner on
In October 2017, healthcare insurer, CareFirst, petitioned the United States Supreme Court, requesting the Court to clarify the constitutional standing requirement for plaintiffs seeking to bring claims regarding their exposure during corporate data breaches.
In order to invoke federal court jurisdiction, a plaintiff must plead an actual or imminent injury. The Supreme Court has held…