The firm is pleased to distribute the Q1 2024 edition of All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments, which closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more
5/24/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Canada ,
EU ,
Executive Orders ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
New Legislation ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury ,
USPTO
Lately, content owners have targeted generative AI providers with infringement suits, which has made some consumers wary of potential infringement liability. Earlier this year, Valve, which operates Steam—the largest online...more
Join the Wilson Sonsini AI and Corporate Governance teams and prominent legal scholar and Harvard Law professor, Noah Feldman, for a webinar exploring the key considerations for AI companies and how they are governed....more
On September 29, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) CHIPS Program Office released a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for the construction, expansion, or modernization of facilities...more
Host Mary O'Brien is joined by Wilson Sonsini technology transactions partner Barath Chari as she interviews Parth Naidu, founder and CEO at SIDO, an e-sports research group, to discuss the legal issues in e-sports gaming....more
In February 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) CHIPS Program Office published the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) under the CHIPS and Science Act. The original FOA was initially...more
Legal, Commercial, and Ethical Risks Posed by the Rapidly Evolving Field of GenAI Technology -
Generative AI (GenAI) refers to a category of artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of generating text, images, music, or...more
On March 23, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (proposed rule) that sets forth the national security guardrails for funding under the CHIPS and Science...more
As described in our client alert earlier this month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s CHIPS Program Office published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) directed towards funding the construction,...more
On February 28, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) CHIPS Program Office published the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) under the CHIPS and Science Act. This initial FOA is directed...more
On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (the CHIPS Act), a significant investment in industrial policy that offers, among other things, funding for the development of facilities to...more
What’s the difference between an employee and an independent contractor? Does it matter that you hired an engineer for your game in another country? What’s a PIIA? Wilson Sonsini Partners Jason Storck and Barath Chari know...more
7/21/2022
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Gaming ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misclassification ,
Online Gaming ,
Proprietary Information ,
Remote Working ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Video Games
Court finds that Google's re-use of code from Oracle's Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act -
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.,1 a...more
4/13/2021
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Copyright Litigation ,
Fair Use ,
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Google LLC v Oracle America Inc ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Java ,
Oracle ,
SCOTUS ,
Transformative Use
Despite the prevalence of open source software and its ubiquitous use in the software industry, there has been little litigation in the United States analyzing and interpreting the terms of open source licenses. On April 25,...more