.Chappell Roan filed her first trademark application on Friday! 🩷🎠™️✨

A #California effort to give performers more control over their digital likeness faces a smooth path after film studios dropped their dissent. On Friday, Illinois gov signed a very similar bill into law #artificalintelligence #Hollywood news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/film-st…

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State fights over abortion rights ballot measures are spurring debates over mental health in pregnancy and whether an individual’s psychological condition can be used to justify abortion care. My latest for Bloomberg Law: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has filed a first of its kind lawsuit against the owners of AI-generated deepfake porn sites. The sites allow users to "nudify" or "undress" women and girls without consent. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/san…

Some major action on California's big #AI bills today. #AB2930, California's algorithmic discrimination bill, survived but was narrowed significantly to only apply to employment, instead of other areas like housing or health care news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-int…

Something interesting in the latest copyright suit against Anthropic, that speaks to the rapidly evolving AI landscape: The authors' class action said Anthropic's behavior "usurped" a licensing market that's developed for copyrighted AI training data. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthrop…

An @openai exclusive from me: the company will let customers customize its flagship model, GPT-4o. this comes as competition grows for AI products for business, and businesses face growing pressure to demonstrate that investments in AI are worth it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Anthropic pushed back on a “grossly overbroad” injunction request by music publishers that would - block its AI from outputting copyrighted song lyrics - require Anthropic to remove song lyrics from training datasets for unreleased AI models news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthrop…

California just passed what could be the nation's most comprehensive rules on #AI training data transparency, which now awaits the governor #privacy #IP news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-int…

Hmm…hot piece of adaptable IP #OMITB

Federal investigations into big-time litigators ✅ Secret parking garage meeting ✅ A bazillion in legal fees on the line ✅ That adds up to one helluva read from maia spoto, our LA courts correspondent, on what comes next in the Girardi fallout. Bloomberg Law news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

OpenAI is making manipulation of ChatGPT central to its defense against a wave of copyright lawsuits from publishers and authors—accusing some of "prompt hacking" and seeking vast troves of documents. blawgo.com/b1HQG9c

OpenAI has accused a handful of publishers and authors of "prompt hacking" or manipulating ChatGPT, but how relevant is that to their copyright claims? My recent article discusses how the strategy might sway jurors or bolster OpenAI's fair use defense. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-…

NEW: X wins a preliminary injunction against a California law requiring social media platforms to disclose content moderation and hate speech policies. The 9th Cir. says X is likely to prevail on its First Amendment challenge, reversing a lower court. news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telec…

Nvidia's sudden rise to become the world’s largest AI chipmaker was fueled by technology it stole, according to a lawsuit filed. blawgo.com/o6PL1Ni

Another Bravo x IP crossover! Lala Kent sued a cosmetics company that allegedly used her "Give Them Lala" trademark to launch a lip product without permission. From Jorja Siemons news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/vanderp…

One is a colossus spanning theme parks and movies. The other is a third-generation family firm that packages hot sauce, soy beans, a herb called horsetail, six varieties of panettone and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets. nyti.ms/3ZrDlC2

OpenAI can’t force the NYT to hand over its journalists’ reporting notes as a part of the discovery requests in the ongoing lawsuit news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-…

Not surprisingly, a lawsuit has been filed against California's new election deepfake laws, by the guy who created the altered Kamala Harris ad #2024Elections #caleg news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/cal…