Recent legal developments highlight a judicial trend toward scrutinizing the datasets used in AI model training, as part of the continued legal struggle over copyright infringement allegations against AI developers.
In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found that Ross Intelligence infringed Westlaw’s copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes to train its AI-based ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) issued a draft opinion for public comments on the principle of consent under Israeli privacy law. The draft opinion clarifies how consent applies in the digital age and explains the PPA’s interpretations which will guide its enforcement efforts, including penalties for violations.
The draft opinion emphasizes that consent must be informed. Notifying the data ...
A federal district court in California has denied Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), whose section 631 is known as the Wiretapping Rule. The court found that Google’s technical capability to access call information and content, without receiving consent from all parties, may be unlawful wiretapping under that law.
The ...
Chinese Deepseek services have been gaining traction as cost-effective and “open” alternatives to artificial intelligence tools offered by OpenAI, Meta, and Google. However, despite their rising popularity, these services come with significant challenges—most notably, the censorship imposed by the Chinese government.
One review of Deepseek reveals that its chat service refuses to respond to politically sensitive questions that are censored ...
The global surge of litigation concerning copyright violations in AI training data continues. In India, several publishers are seeking to join pending litigation against OpenAI due to its use of literary works to train ChatGPT; in California, a new lawsuit alleges that LinkedIn sold personal messages to third parties for AI training purposes; and Anthropic (Claude AI) has settled a ...
The EU AI Act began its phased implementation on February 2, 2025. Provisions that came into force in February govern AI literacy and ban certain harmful AI practices.
Under the EU AI Act, organizations must now promote AI literacy, ensuring their personnel have the skills and knowledge to deploy AI responsibly. These skills include understanding risks and ethical concerns with ...
In a recent landmark decision, the Israeli Supreme Court addressed the use of generative AI to draft pleadings, highlighting the responsibilities of lawyers when using these tools.
The case involved a petitioner seeking to overturn a Rabbinical court’s decision regarding a divorce agreement. The Supreme Court criticized the petitioner’s attorney for relying on AI-generated legal citations that were entirely fabricated. ...
The highly publicized TikTok legal battle in the U.S. culminated in the Supreme Court decision upholding the law banning TikTok’s operations in the U.S., finding that the law’s focus on TikTok’s corporate structure passes muster under the constitutional First Amendment rights of TikTok and its users.
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), The Court also held that ...
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