What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Read more about Thoughts about Volt Typhoon Location United States See map: Google Maps ..read more

This post addresses whether, in light of what’s noted thus far, copyright law requires AI model builders to license all such content, and thus whether a mandatory licensing scheme to enable fair exchange of value between creators of protected content and the AI model builders should be created. My answer is a caveated “no” – for the moment, no copyright claim has persuaded a court that licensing is required to avoid infringing the rights of copyright holders in scanned/scraped works used to train AI models.[3] There remain arguments that use of content to train AI models is protected by fair ..read more

The Federal Communications Commission is looking to restore net neutrality for all Americans. The FCC published its proposal, a so-called Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), in October 2023. The comments period ended in mid-January. A vote is expected in late April. Read more about How to Strengthen the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Protections by Closing Loopholes and Matching the 2015 Open Internet Order Location United States See map: Google Maps ..read more

Automakers (including Tesla, Daimer, Ford, and GM) as well as automated-driving developers (including  Read more about Over-the-air updates and regulatory recalls Location United States See map: Google Maps Related Topics:  Automated Driving ..read more

Today, Lawfare published my paper on the law and policy implications of AI-generated child sex abuse material (CSAM), and there’s a podcast episode accompanying it featuring me and my Internet Observatory colleague David Thiel. Read more about New Paper on AI-Generated CSAM Location United States See map: Google Maps ..read more

The Supreme Court is about to review a constitutional challenge to two unprecedented and very complicated laws regulating social media. The laws were enacted by Texas and Florida in order to counter “censorship” and alleged anti-conservative bias of major Internet platforms like Facebook or YouTube. Both laws have “must-carry” rules that restrict platforms’ ability to moderate content under their preferred editorial policies, and “transparency” rules including requirements for platforms to notify users when their posts have been moderated. Read more about FAQs about the NetChoice Cases at the ..read more

Cruise has now released a preliminary report by Quinn Emanuel, the law firm that the company hired to review its response to its infamous October 2023 crash in California. A few initial thoughts: Read more about On Cruise's Crash (and Quinn's Report) Location United States See map: Google Maps Related Topics:  Automated Driving ..read more

Tool Without a Handle: Are You Not Trained? This post takes up the questions of how copyright law may impact the development and commercialization of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") tools, given their use of other people's data, generally without prior notice or permission. While litigation on these issues is still moving through the courts, it is possible that even straight reproductions of protected content by AI tools will be deemed lawful "fair use." But there's much to argue for not resting the future of AI on that prospect, and instead to there's also much to offer in a voluntary, self-r ..read more

Introduction Where’s Waldo LLC (“Waldo”), your U.K. based digital advertising company, just got funded. Wonderful news! But it also just received a notice from the California Attorney General. Not wonderful. Why did you receive it? In the AG’s view, Waldo has been doing business in California since 2019. Along the way, Waldo’s AI has been scraping and storing digital personality profiles of 100,000 California residents. The software then creates visual representations of this data for licensing to brands like Nike. Nobody told you that California’s Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) regulates the ..read more

In 2018, Professors Lauren Willis (Law, Loyola Law School), Read more about White paper: Consumer confusion audits and performance-based regulation Location United States See map: Google Maps ..read more