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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
FTC Submits Comments on AI, Copyright, Consumer Protection, and Competition
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent submission of a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office addressing artificial intelligence (AI).
Legal Issues Surrounding Customer Lists
This week, let’s examine the nine (9) or more areas of law surrounding Customer Lists, which are often among the blue-ribbon prizes in fights among competitors or between employers and their departing employees.
Avoiding the Consequences of Undisclosed Endorsements and Testimonials
This week, let’s cover “influencers,” crypto, Kim Kardashian, and the latest updates to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
Revisions to the FTC’s Merger Guidelines?
This week, let’s listen to Kara Swisher’s interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan, and consider 5 takeaways associated the Chair’s comments on how the FTC is approaching revisions to its Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust Reform and “Coopetition"
This week, let’s consider what’s happening on the Hill and in Silicon Valley—from antitrust reform to “coopetition”—and then we’re going make a prediction about new antitrust legislation.
Online Platforms Under Pressure
This week, let’s consider how online platforms are under pressure from proposed laws covering anti-counterfeiting, contributory liability, disinformation, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and more.
The "Hipster" Antitrust Hearing
This week, let’s consider the House’s historic antitrust hearing, the reckoning faced by Big Tech companies, and why we think data privacy and monopolies of data should factor into antitrust considerations.
Privacy meets Antitrust
This week saw privacy collide with antitrust, as Facebook’s co-founder, Chris Hughes, wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times calling for Facebook to be broken up.