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Brittany Walter is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office. She is the associate co-lead of the firm’s Blockchain and Fintech Team as well as the firm’s Technology & Commercial Transactions Team.

On January 22, 2026, House Representatives Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced H.R. 7209, a bipartisan bill that could significantly reshape the relationship between copyright law and artificial intelligence. Known as the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act, the proposal seeks to give copyright owners a clearer path to understanding whether—and how—their works are being used to train generative AI models.

Continue Reading New House Bill on AI Transparency Aims to Pull Back the Curtain on AI Training Data

Another class action lawsuit—Cruz v. Fireflies.AI Corp.—puts a spotlight on potential legal risks associated with AI meeting assistants. The complaint alleges that the Fireflies tool records, analyzes, transcribes, and stores voices of meeting participants, including voices of those who are not Fireflies users, without the notice, written consent, and retention safeguards required by Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). It points to Fireflies’ “speaker recognition” functionality and contends the product creates and retains voiceprints—covered under BIPA—while lacking a publicly available retention and destruction policy and failing to inform meeting participants about biometric collection. This case is a useful preview of issues regulators and plaintiffs may raise around AI transcription and summarization. We have previously covered other lawsuits involving these issues here.

Continue Reading Illinois BIPA Suit Targets AI Note‑Takers: Practical Lessons for Meeting Transcription

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligence’s (“ROSS”), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (“Reuters”). The case stems from allegations that ROSS used copyrighted material from Reuters’ legal research platform, Westlaw, to train its artificial intelligence (“AI”)-driven legal research engine. While the decision will certainly be informative to the dozens of pending lawsuits against AI developers, it is important to note the scope of the opinion is limited to the specific facts of this case. Specifically, generative AI was not involved, and the court’s analysis of the fair use factors was heavily focused on the fact that the parties are direct competitors.

Continue Reading Court Definitively Rejects Fair Use Defense in AI Training Case

The Florida State Bar recently adopted an advisory opinion meant to provide attorneys with guidance on how to use generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) without running afoul of ethics rules. In doing so, Florida becomes one of the first state bars to issue formal guidance on this topic—second only to California.

Continue Reading Florida Joins California in Adopting Ethical Guidelines for Attorney’s Use of Generative AI