Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

On September 23, the Massachusetts Division of Banks finalized amendments to the Small Loans Law, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Mortgage Lender and Broker Licensing Law.

The health care community made an unexpected appearance at the 2025 Emmys! This week's BL Business Branding newsletter takes a pulse...

Anthropic, a leading developer of artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs), has reached a settlement in a closely watched dispute with a class of authors and publishers who alleged...

Plaintiff Gibson Inc. sued competing guitar manufacturer Armadillo Distribution Enterprises Inc., alleging that Armadillo marketed, advertised and sold counterfeit guitars that infringed seven...

Our latest edition of the Asia IP & TMT Quarterly Review addresses the latest cybersecurity, data privacy, and intellectual property developments in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.

Back-to-school season is a parade of freshly sharpened pencils, crisp exercise books and backpacks still untested by the chaos of buses...

The opening brief in a first-of-its-kind appeal of an AI copyright infringement case was recently filed, framing the issues that could result in legal precedent reshaping the AI industry.

In a recent issue of IP Litigator, Marshall Gerstein Partner and patent attorney Ryan Phelan explores two recent rulings that offer the first merit-based guidance on how "fair use" applies to large AI training...

As more companies turn to artificial intelligence for content for a wide range of uses, case law is starting to take place to ensure companies aren't using copyrighted material for profit.

The Supreme Court of California held that it is a violation of California law for businesses to request and record a credit card holder’s ZIP code in connection with credit card transactions. Under California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971, businesses are prohibited from requesting that cardholders supply personal identification information in connection with credit card transactions.

In a case with major implications for retailers and marketers, the Supreme Court of California ruled on February 10, 2011 that state law prohibits businesses from requesting and recording ZIP codes from consumers prior to credit card transactions, including requests for use in marketing.

On March 11, 2011, the FTC announced that it had reached a settlement with the social networking site Twitter regarding privacy failures on the site to adequately safeguard user information, which led to two high-profile hacker attacks in 2009.