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Intelligence Piracy: The Actor Who Was Never There
Artificial intelligence has created a new form of piracy in film and television, one that doesn't steal finished works but instead extracts the craft and identity of performers themselves. From synthetic actors like Tilly Norwood to unauthorized digital replicas of real stars, the industry faces a fundamental question: when AI learns to recreate a performer's face, voice, and mannerisms from their body of work, whose craft has been taken?
United States IP
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Rouse
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How Low Can You Go? Courts Lower Marking Defense Burden, Raising Patent Damages Risks
Recent federal court decisions in Texas and California have significantly lowered the evidentiary threshold for accused infringers to pursue patent-marking defenses under Arctic Cat v. Bombardier. These rulings establish that identifying potentially unmarked products—without linking them to specific patents—can satisfy the accused infringer's initial burden, fundamentally shifting the dynamics of pre-suit damages recovery. Patent owners now face heightened risks of losing substantial damages if
United States IP
FH
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
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CIPO Releases 2025 SME Roundtables Report
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has released findings from roundtable discussions with 53 small and medium-sized businesses across six cities, revealing significant challenges in protecting intellectual property. Business owners identified cost, slow timelines, complexity, and limited knowledge as major barriers to accessing IP protection in Canada. CIPO plans to use this feedback to shape its upcoming business strategy and has already initiated a review of its fee structure.
Canada IP
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Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
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Critical Considerations For AI Model Licensing Agreements In Healthcare
AI licensing in healthcare involves complex decisions about asset definition, control allocation, and accountability as models and data evolve. This white paper examines the practical contracting challenges that arise when AI models intersect with health data, exploring how organizations can structure agreements that account for messy datasets, model artifacts, and the reality that machine learning systems resist traditional ownership frameworks.
United States Healthcare
FH
Foley Hoag LLP
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Nebraska Enacts Law Expanding Scope Of Installment Loan And Sales Act
On February 25, 2026, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed Legislative Bill 717 (LB 717) into law. LB 717 will expand the scope of the Nebraska Installment Loan and Sales Act (the “ILSA”) —Nebraska’s primary licensing law that governs the origination, making, and servicing of non-mortgage consumer-purpose loans—by raising the threshold loan amount for licensing under the ILSA, imposing new disclosure requirements for ILSA licensees, and expanding the prohibition against making l
United States IP
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Mayer Brown
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