Good Trouble 2025
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
Judge William Alsup has granted class certification for one of the proposed classes in Bratz v. Anthropic, where a number of authors are suing the developer of the genAI model Claude for copyright infringement [Docket | Order]
A lawsuit by two voiceover artists against a company that provides genAI voices has survived summary judgment, with some of the claims dismissed by the court [BBC | Docket | Opinion and Order]
An appellate court in Georgia has vacated a lower court order and remanded the case for reconsideration on the basis of the trial court’s order including fabricated case citations [Above the Law | AI Law Librarians | Appellate decision]
The Texas A&M Journal of Property Law has published an entire issue “drafted explicitly with the assistance of” genAI [Above the Law | Journal vol. 11, no.4 (2025)]
The University of San Francisco Law School has partnered with Anthropic to “fully integrate” the genAI model Claude into the legal curriculum
The American Federation of Teachers is opening a National Academy of AI Instruction with support from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic
Denmark has proposed amending the country’s copyright laws to allow individuals to protect their likenesses (face, voice and body) to prevent abuse via deepfakes [Vice | The Guardian ($) | CNN]
State adoption & deployment of AI: Virginia to cut and update regulations | California for fire information | Utah for non-emergency 911 calls
From Wired[$]: Despite recent legislation to curtail deepfake porn, nudify apps and websites appear to be proliferating and making millions of dollars
Blockchain/Digital Currency
The House has cleared a stalemate that prevented the passage of several cryptocurrency bills that include provisions such as banning a central bank digital currency and authorizing a regulatory framework for stablecoins [Reuters | The Hill]
Miscellaneous
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has revised Rule 5.4 of its professional conduct code for attorneys to allow non-lawyer ownership of law firms
PACER is facing increasing risks of cyber attacks, a federal judge testified in a Congressional hearing on oversight of the federal courts [Law360 ($) | TheRecord | Hearing page (with video)]
Long Reads
Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore; Motomura, Amy R.; Reinecke, Jason; and Masur, Jonathan S., "Can AI Hold Office Hours?" (2025). Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics. 25-17.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/1034