Spring Breaking
AI
There is a public tracker for judicial orders & court rules regarding the use of AI in courts
Tennessee has passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, to protect musicians and other artists from AI impersonation without permission [Bill information]
Two Yale professors (Law & Engineering) are collaborating on a legal AI chatbot that combines LLM content generation and automated reasoning and formal validation
What California lawmakers can learn from European ones when it comes to regulating AI
Blockchain/Digital Currency
A federal judge has denied most of Coinbase's motion to dismiss in the case brought against the cryptocurrency exchange by the Securities & Exchange Commission [Docket | Coinbase | The Verge | CNBC]
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud
Data Privacy
From Mashable: "In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and IP addresses that watched select YouTube videos, part of a larger criminal investigation by federal investigators"
The House of Representatives have passed a bill to prevent data brokers to sell Americans' personally identifiable information to foreign adversaries, such as North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran [Congress.gov]
Miscellaneous
From The Wall Street Journal [$]: "Hedge funds, private equity groups and other investors are exploring Arizona’s unusual opportunity to have an equity stake in law firms"
The federal judge in the lawsuit regarding PACER fees has approved a settlement deal of $125 million
Long(ish) Reads
Tay, Aaron, Things I am still wondering about generative AI + Search in 2024 - impact of semantic search, generation of answers with citations and more.., Musings about Librarianship [blog], Jan. 26, 2024 [ed. note: for those interested in retrieval-augmented generation, which is integrated with most of the GenAI products offered by legal research platforms to prevent/curb hallucinated answers & citations, this blogpost goes into some technical detail on how RAG works and what can still go wrong with generated answers]
Friedmann, Danny, Creation and Generation Copyright Standards (February 24, 2024). NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law, forthcoming 2024, Peking University School of Transnational Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4770924
Perlman, Andrew, The Legal Ethics of Generative AI (February 22, 2024). Suffolk University Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4735389. or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4735389