1. Artificial IntelligenceCopyright

    The first appellate AI training decision is not really a generative AI case

    October 1, 2026 - The first federal appellate court to decide whether copying copyrighted material to train an artificial intelligence system can constitute fair use ruled against the AI . . .

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  2. Section 230

    First Amendment and Section 230 protected online publication of a sealed arrest report

    September 30, 2026 - Plaintiff Blackman sued journalist Jack Poulson, Substack, and Tech Inquiry over online reporting about his arrest for felony domestic violence. The government chose not to . . .

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  3. Artificial Intelligence

    Court upholds Pentagon exclusion of Anthropic over Claude use restrictions

    September 26, 2026 - Anthropic challenged a Department of War decision excluding the company and its Claude artificial intelligence models from the Department’s supply chain after Anthropic refused to . . .

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  4. DefamationSocial Media

    Social media defamation claim fails where public record supported the post

    September 24, 2026 - Lawyer Stefan Passantino sued former federal prosecutor and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann for defamation over a post Weissmann made on X. The post identified Passantino . . .

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  5. Computer CrimeContracts

    What the proposed Stealth Bot Prohibition Act could mean beyond AI scraping

    September 23, 2026 - Here is what the proposed federal Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R. 9915 prohibits: A person may not (1) deploy, direct, or cause to be deployed, . . .

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  6. Artificial IntelligenceTrade Secrets

    What happens to a trade secret when technology moves on?

    September 21, 2026 - The secrets of building a great vacuum tube did not have to leak for their value to wane when transistors arrived. AI may create the . . .

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  7. Artificial IntelligenceCopyright

    The enterprise AI legal issue you probably are not thinking about yet

    September 20, 2026 - The next portability fight will be about knowledge Perhaps the strangest intellectual property question to arise in the past few years with AI is not . . .

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  8. Artificial IntelligencePrivacy

    Customer data for AI use: What should a vendor take and a customer give?

    September 17, 2026 - Negotiating how a technology vendor uses customer data brings up not only privacy and data processing concerns but also confidentiality and trade secrets, in a . . .

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