Entertainment Law, Media Law and Telecoms Law

Enterprise AI creates legal risk throughout the AI lifecycle, beginning before deployment. Model selection, data pipelines, vendor relationships, AI-generated outputs, consequential decision-making, contracts, and governance can create intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, regulatory, and liability exposure. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping real-money gaming, but its value proposition is inseparable from regulatory risk.

Gaming companies face mounting legal challenges as plaintiffs argue that loot box systems constitute illegal gambling under state law. The dispute centers on whether randomized in-game rewards with real economic value cross the line from traditional mystery products into regulated gambling territory, with courts now weighing arguments that could reshape the industry's most controversial monetization practice.

A federal district court has dismissed a six-year legal challenge to Oklahoma's 2020 tribal gaming compacts, ruling that the plaintiff tribes lacked standing to contest agreements between the state and the Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe. The decision provides greater operational certainty for tribal gaming enterprises while leaving unresolved broader questions about compact validity under federal law.

The Federal Communications Commission has fundamentally altered how businesses must handle consumer opt-out requests under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, replacing the broad "revoke all" mandate with a more nuanced, category-specific approach for informational messages. This regulatory shift allows companies to maintain separate consent tracks for different types of non-marketing communications while preserving stricter opt-out requirements for telemarketing messages. The Updated Order introduces ne

The Federal Communications Commission advances major spectrum initiatives while CISA and NIST release critical cybersecurity guidance for telecommunications infrastructure. Key regulatory deadlines approach for C-Band transitions, RF emissions testing, and direct-to-device satellite communications as agencies work to modernize wireless technology frameworks.

The Eastern District of Missouri has ruled that cellphones are not covered under the TCPA's Do Not Call provisions, marking a significant departure from the majority rule. Following Florida's recent similar decision, the court determined that Congress intentionally excluded cellphones from residential telephone subscriber protections, challenging decades of FCC interpretation in the post-Loper Bright era.

California's Senate Bill 690 fundamentally reshapes the enforcement landscape of the California Invasion of Privacy Act by eliminating private lawsuits targeting website tracking technologies under the law's pen register provisions. The legislation, effective January 2027 with a two-year retroactive application, transfers enforcement authority exclusively to the California Attorney General for digital property violations while maintaining private rights of action for other CIPA provisions.

Andrea Arndt examines the evolving debate surrounding artificial intelligence's role in patent law, questioning whether AI-generated inventions can receive patent protection and how inventor credit should be assigned. The article addresses the legal and intellectual boundaries being tested as AI continues to advance innovation capabilities.

The Central District of Washington has ruled on whether California's Invasion of Privacy Act applies to modern internet technologies like Meta's Facebook Tracking Pixel. In a case involving a cosmetic surgery provider's website tracking practices, the court examined each clause of CIPA § 631(a) to determine if the statute's wiretapping provisions extend to digital communications and data collection on websites.

Highway Contract Route carriers and brokers operating in the USPS surface transportation network face critical legal developments in 2026, including the Supreme Court's Montgomery v. Caribe decision eliminating federal preemption for negligent-selection claims and the ongoing nuclear verdict crisis with jury awards exceeding $10 million. These developments demand heightened attention to compliance, documentation, and risk management strategies to protect against significant liability exposure in today's tru

The Department of Justice’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division (“NFED”) has told the market exactly where it intends to focus: (1) public trust and financial integrity, (2) health care, (3) internal revenue, (4) global trade and commerce, and (5) corporate misconduct. NFED plans to target these five priorities in parallel under one roof with a shared data infrastructure, compounding the risk to companies that operate at the intersection of multiple priorities and raising the stakes for any company considering a voluntary self-disclosure of potential misconduct.

When a legal research startup trained its AI on lawyer memos derived from Westlaw's editorial summaries, it sparked a landmark copyright case that exposes how artificial intelligence extracts not just content, but the accumulated judgment and authority publishers spent decades building. As Google referral traffic plummets and AI-generated content farms proliferate, the question shifts from "was a copy made?" to "was the expert ever hired?"