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Found Another One: Court Sanctions Both Local and Lead Counsel for AI-Generated Case Citations 

Brett Trout

law to add supporting case law. In the legal field, this can manifest as fabricated case law, incorrect citations, or misleading summaries of legal principles. Mr. Ayala had uploaded the motion onto MX2.law This website is apparently an in-house database launched by Mr. Ayala and his firm.

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Analyzing the Lululemon v. Costco Dupe Suit (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Determining when a dupe seller crosses the line and a dupe infringes intellectual property rights can be tricky. But the rise in dupes has brought a corresponding rise in dupe lawsuits, or at least lawsuits that offer up defendants’ or consumers’ use of the term “dupe” as evidence of confusing similarity or intent to deceive.

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Everything You Should Know About AI Legal Tech

Percipient

It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. AI-Powered Legal Research Tools AI legal research tools take the hassle out of finding case law, statutes, and precedents. What makes it so useful is how accurate and consistent it is.

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Preliminary Copyright Office Guidance on Fair Use and AI Provides Some Answers, But Questions Remain

Debevoise Data Blog

AI Developer Views on Liability Unsurprisingly, AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, and Meta reiterated their arguments from pending lawsuits that training should not be subject to copyright liability. [31] Many uses, however, will fall somewhere in between. [2] 11, 2025). [23] at *8 (emphasis in original). [25] Comment Letter (Nov.

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Roberts Its become known as the sad beige lawsuit or the case that asks the question can you ever really own an aesthetic ? Intellectual property law has not traditionally protected the way someone styles their hair, makes up their face, or decorates their home, whether or not those choices are photographed and shared.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Based on my reading of the case law, the Fourth and Eighth Circuits broadly follow this approach. Based on my reading of lower court opinions, to date, courts in the Third Circuit also seem to follow the case-by-case approach. However, it was sometimes not as clear as the case law of other circuits.”

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 94-1476, at 159-60.