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AI Firms Have Every Incentive to Settle Copyright-Infringement Suits, Even If It Costs Them Billions
“It’s certainly reasonable that some companies will see the numbers and say that it’s safer to resolve the cases, because then it becomes a line item, a business cost, rather than a risk that’s hanging over their heads for years, said Regina Sam Penti, a partner at Ropes & Gray. Click Here To Read […]
AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings
Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators. Click Here To Read The Full Article
When Patent Prosecution Becomes Something More
Most days, preparing and prosecuting patent applications follows a familiar rhythm. Talk with the inventors. Draft the application. Wait for the Patent Office. Argue a few times. Secure the patent. Repeat. But every so often, a case reminds us that our work can mean much more — especially when something has gone wrong, and someone […]
As Kirkland and Other Big Law Firms Get Bigger, Revolving Lines of Credit Grow
Kirkland’s revolver credit is perhaps the largest in the legal industry—more than 10 times the size of the average Am Law 100 firm’s revolving line of credit. Click Here To Read The Full Article