4/10/2024 11:55:08 PM Court Reinstates CPPA Enforcement Authority and Confirms No Delay Necessary for Enforcement of Future CCPA Regulations By Farella Braun + Martel A recent appellate decision has made clear that the regulations promulgated under California’s groundbreaking consumer privacy law, the...
2/1/2024 1:11:12 AM Is the Copyright Threat to Generative AI Overhyped? Implications of Kadrey v. Meta By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry In November 2023, Meta successfully had nearly all of the claims against it dismissed in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. suit, a...
1/29/2024 6:25:46 PM Major Decision Affects Law of Scraping and Online Data Collection, Meta Platforms v. Bright Data By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary...
12/7/2023 8:39:49 PM California Proposes New AI & Automated Decision-Making Technology Regulations By Sushila Chanana The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released its draft regulatory framework for automated decision-making technology (ADMT)...
12/5/2023 8:05:19 PM A Summary of New Laws Coming for California Employers in 2024 By Holly Sutton Chandra Andrade In 2023, California has adopted several new employment laws either introducing new employee protections or codifying existing practices...
11/22/2023 10:17:51 PM It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI: Intellectual Property and Data Privacy Concerns With Nonprofits’ Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems By Cynthia Rowland In today's rapidly changing technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines and being discussed constantly. To...
11/10/2023 11:07:28 PM Fair Use Question Goes to Trial in AI Copyright Lawsuit – Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence By Sushila Chanana On September 25, 2023, a United States Circuit Judge determined that fact questions surrounding issues of fair use and tortious...
1/31/2023 10:14:00 PM Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets By Eugene Mar Technology companies and start-ups are familiar with protecting inventions with patents, and protecting their secret formulas, source...
1/31/2023 7:46:36 PM Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets By Eugene Mar Technology companies and start-ups are familiar with protecting inventions with patents, and protecting their secret formulas, source...
1/27/2023 11:37:00 PM How To Avoid Allegations of Trade Secret Misappropriation in California By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry Download a PDF of this piece When departing a company, an executive, founder, or employee with access to trade secrets or confidential...
1/18/2023 11:05:13 PM Under FTC’s New Proposed Rule, Employers Will No Longer Be Able to Rely on Noncompete Agreements By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry Rebecca Stephens The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a rule that would prohibit the use of noncompete agreements in employment contracts....
12/22/2022 11:37:54 PM What Recent Rulings in 'hiQ v. LinkedIn' and Other Cases Say About the Legality of Data Scraping By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn...
12/21/2022 5:08:41 PM New Laws and Compliance Updates for California Employers in 2023 By Holly Sutton Rebecca Stephens Jamie Talt California has passed several new or amended employment laws covering topics ranging from off-duty marijuana use, reproductive rights,...
11/21/2022 6:08:00 PM California Extends Presumption of COVID-19 as Workers’ Compensation Injury and Modifies Notice Requirements for Potential Exposure By Holly Sutton In addition to AB 152 extending COVID-19 leave through December 31, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom has also signed into law two other...
11/10/2022 1:21:33 AM One Pending Supreme Court Case Could Change the Internet as We Know It: Gonzalez v. Google and Tech Platforms’ Liability By Erik Olson Raven Quesenberry The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google, a high-stakes case appealed from the Ninth Circuit about the scope of...
11/9/2022 7:43:22 PM How Companies Can Stop Trade Secret Disclosure in California By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry When an executive, founder, or employee with access to trade secrets or confidential information leaves a company to work elsewhere,...