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Legal AI Assistants vs. Human Assistants: Best Uses for AI Assistants

Colin S. Levy

The heuristic of assistant is useful to convey that this category of software tools has a ton of capabilities. For other tasks, the software may serve as a collaborative partner; that is, taking portions of the work but not entirely completing the task. Some tasks the AI may even be able to entirely handle through delegation.

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New Privacy Software Helps Lawyers Defend Against Rising Pixel, Tracker, and Session Recording Lawsuits

Law Technology Today

Using tech to defend against (or hopefully avoid) these issues for clients One way that law firms can get a handle on all of this activity is to leverage privacy software that automates the discovery of the online data at the core of these concerns.

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Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software

LawSites

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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Section 230 Preempts Clean Air Act Lawsuit Over “Defeat Device” Apps—U.S. v. EZ Lynk

Eric Goldman

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. A reminder that if the US government had prosecuted the defendants for violating the Clean Air Act, Section 230 would have been irrelevant (it doesn’t apply to federal criminal prosecutions). The defendants sell this hardware. It doesn’t work.

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Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Treated as General Partnership for Liability Purposes–Samuels v. Lido DAO

Eric Goldman

Samuels sued the Lido DAO, but a shadowy entity (Dolphin CL, LLC) defended the Lido DAO on the grounds that the DAO wasn’t an entity at all; it is just software code. The court is not persuaded: “Lido’s alleged actions are not those of an autonomous software program—they are the actions of an entity run by people.”

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Tattoo Artist Wins Copyright Claim, But Gets Zero Damages–Alexander v. Take Two

Eric Goldman

The defendants sought to overturn the jury verdict. Fair Use Nature of Use “Defendants’ use of the tattoos was clearly commercial.” This was evident with Defendants’ “Create-A-Superstar” feature which enabled a user to take the tattoos and apply them to their own custom wrestler avatar. ” Really?

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Pending Patent Reforms Could Benefit Inventors and Small Businesses

Brett Trout

Three proposed billsthePREVAIL Act, RESTORE Act, and PERA (Patent Eligibility Restoration Act)aim to fix longstanding issues in patent law, making iteasier for inventors to obtain patents, defend them in court, and monetize their innovations. to fall behind other countries. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) aims to fix this by: ?