A fight is underway in Congress over an amendment to the “big beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that would put a 10-year moratorium on state laws governing certain uses of artificial intelligence. The amendment, proposed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is broad and concerning to multiple stakeholders, including 36 State Attorneys General who ...
Today, both producers and consumers are increasingly aware that every opportunity and convenience afforded by digital commerce comes with an unwritten warning label that scams abound—from counterfeiting to price gouging to malware attacks. Thus, in 2024, Digital Citizens Alliance independently launched the Responsible Markets Initiative (RMI) to research existing and emerging harms in secondary markets. Its first report on digital ...
Four luminaries of copyright law and scholarship submitted a letter to the American Law Institute (ALI) formally withdrawing their names as Advisers from the Restatement of Copyright Law, approval of which is set to be voted on next week. Professors Shyam Balganesh, Jane Ginsburg, and Peter Menell, along with attorney David Nimmer submitted the May 12 letter conveying strong disagreement ...
Since the election, I have been so certain these events were coming that I almost pre-drafted this post, but I didn’t want to be a jinx. Then when it did happen, I hardly knew what to say. Every day, we are confronted with evidence that the only agenda of Trump 2.0 is wanton destruction. I am increasingly convinced that Trump ...
Two headlines in the first week of this month said a lot about the United States as an “innovative” nation right now. One story announced that the first driverless semi-trucks are on the highway covering normal long-haul routes, and the second reported that the final shipments of pre-tariff goods from China were arriving at U.S. ports. Leave it to contemporary ...
