Musicians AI Voice Clones and the NO FAKES Act: Protecting Your Voice and Likeness as a Creator An AI track faked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of plays before it was pulled. If your voice or likeness can be cloned, here's the legal toolkit that protects creators today—and what the NO FAKES Act would change.
In-House Counsel The EU AI Act's Big Deadline Just Moved to 2027 — What US Founders and In-House Counsel Should Actually Do Now The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline slipped from August 2026 to December 2027 under the Digital Omnibus. But several obligations did NOT move, and US companies are squarely in scope. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what to do with the runway.
Health Tech HIPAA and AI — When ML Training Crosses the BAA Line HIPAA gives business associates only two narrow permissions to use PHI for their own purposes — and AI model training fits neither. A close look at the BAA line, why de-identification is not the escape hatch vendors claim, and what to demand before signing any AI vendor agreement.
Founders Texas's AI Law Is Now in Force: What TRAIGA Actually Requires of Founders and In-House Counsel Texas's Responsible AI Governance Act (HB 149) has been in force since January 1, 2026 — and it is far narrower than the bill it grew from. Here is who TRAIGA reaches, what its intent-based prohibitions mean, how the Texas AG enforces it, and the NIST safe harbor to build toward.
Law Firms Can You Prove That Image Is Real? AI Verification Tools Lawyers Need to Understand OpenAI just shipped a tool that checks whether an image was AI-generated. It is one of many — and for lawyers, the gap between what these provenance checkers actually prove and what a courtroom requires is where the real risk lives.
Founders Three AI Governance Quick Wins: The Use-Case Registry, Risk Tiering, and Policy Intake Thirty-nine percent of companies still have no formal AI risk process. Here are three concrete steps — a use-case registry, a risk tiering model, and a policy intake gate — that any startup can implement in a month.
Founders Earnouts, Bad Faith, and a Chatbot: What Fortis Advisors v. Krafton Means for Founders Who Sell A Delaware court ordered Krafton to reinstate the ousted Subnautica 2 CEO after its own chief executive used ChatGPT to engineer a 'takeover' and dodge a $250M earnout. Here is what founders who sell their companies should take from the ruling.
Legal Tech & Automation Focus on Workflows, Not Hype: Where AI Delivers Fast ROI in Legal Practice AI is already changing day-to-day legal work — not as a futuristic “robot lawyer,” but as software that helps teams sift, summarize, compare, and route…
Lawyer in the Loop Implementing AI in Law Firms: A Practical Lawyer-in-the-Loop Guide AI is shifting from “interesting pilot” to everyday infrastructure in law firms and legal departments — intake, research, drafting, and contract review…
Health Tech FDA Regulation of Software as a Medical Device: A Founder's Guide to SaMD Pathways FDA regulates software as a medical device based on what it does, not what it looks like. This guide covers the SaMD definition, IMDRF risk classification, 510(k)/De Novo/PMA pathways, FDA's PCCP framework, and clinical evidence requirements for founders.
Health Tech Clinical AI Vendor Contracts: A Due Diligence Checklist for Healthcare Organizations Three regulatory regimes converge when you onboard a clinical AI vendor: HIPAA, Texas TRAIGA, and the EU AI Act. This guide walks through the due-diligence questions that matter most — training data integrity, BAA alignment, model transparency, and contract red flags.
EdTech COPPA's April 22 Amendments: What Changed for EdTech Operators in 2026 The FTC’s 2025 COPPA Final Rule took effect April 22, 2026 with no grace period. Here’s what changed for EdTech operators: new biometric and geolocation data categories, data minimization and retention requirements, unbundled consent mechanics, and an expanded verification menu.
Visual Artists The Visual Artist's AI Opt-Out Guide: What Actually Works in 2026 Three layers of defense — dataset, technical, legal — and which actually work for visual artists in 2026. Concrete steps for Spawning HIBT registration, Glaze cloaking, current AI-crawler robots.txt entries, EU TDMRep, and where DMCA still bites against AI outputs that copy your work.
Musicians Your Music Is Being Used to Train AI. Here's What You Can Actually Do About It. AI companies trained on tens of millions of recordings — including yours — without consent. Here's what the lawsuits mean, what opt-outs exist, and the steps you can take to protect your catalog now.
AI Law AI Startup Legal Compliance: Where Tech Law, Privacy, and IP Intersect AI-native and data-intensive product design is now the default: LLM features ship behind a toggle, analytics run continuously, and customer data flows…
AI Law FTC's 2026 AI Disclosure Rules: What Every Creator Must Change This Quarter The FTC's 2026 enforcement priorities single out four creator-disclosure failures and add a new layer for AI-generated endorsements. Here's a plain-English breakdown plus the five changes to make in your content workflow this quarter.
AI Law AI-Washing Litigation in 2026: What Public-Company GCs Need to Know On Jan 14, 2025, the SEC charged Presto Automation with the first public-company AI-washing action. Four enforcement surfaces — SEC, plaintiffs' bar, FTC, and EU AI Act — now scrutinize every public AI claim. The GC's pre-clearance workstream is the answer.
AI Law The Modern AI Vendor Contract: Eight Clauses Your Old Template Is Missing After Bartz, Kadrey, and TRAIGA, the 2022 SaaS skeleton is missing eight clauses: lawful-training-corpus warranty, AI BOM, model-card delivery, audit, incident reporting, data-use limits, AI indemnity, AI termination. Plus a 24-month reformation program.
AI Law Parallel Pipelines: Why the Strictest-Rule Strategy No Longer Works for AI GDPR-as-baseline worked for privacy because regimes shared a substrate. AI regimes don't — TRAIGA intent, EU AI Act risk-class, Colorado discrimination, NYC LL 144 audit, AB 2013 disclosure. Build modular NIST + ISO 42001 spine; layer overlays.
AI Law From Procurement Questionnaire to Standing Answer: How Vendors Sell Into Enterprise AI-CAIQ v1.0.2 (Oct 2025) + SIG 2025 made the questionnaire the deal-gating event. Mid-market vendors lose deals when answers are ad-hoc and inconsistent with the MSA. Build the standing answer FROM the signable contract template.
AI Law High-Risk AI Systems Under the EU AI Act: How to Classify Yours EU AI Act Article 6 high-risk classification activates the full Title III Chapter 2 stack. Two pathways (Annex I product-safety / Annex III use cases). Four-condition derogation with profiling kill-switch. A five-step decision tree.
AI Law Drafting AI Disclosures for the 10-K: Materiality Without Hype Two-front pressure: 92 SEC comments / 56 companies push toward disclosure; AI-washing enforcement (Presto) punishes overstatement. Six-element Item 1A architecture, four-step pre-clearance workflow, integrated documentary spine.
AI Law AI BOM Disclosure: The OWASP and SPDX Standards for AI Procurement Two complementary AI BOM standards anchor 2026 procurement: OWASP AIBOM (six asset domains) and SPDX 3.0.1 AI Profile (machine-readable schema). California AB 2013 is the regulatory floor. Three implementation moves for procurement teams.
AI Law Lawful Training Corpus Warranties: Post-Bartz Rep & Warranty Drafting Bartz $1.5B + Kadrey caution = standard IP rep is not enough. Four-lane lawful-training-corpus warranty, AI BOM disclosure schedule, three indemnity calibration levers, three drafting fact patterns.
AI Law AI Diligence for M&A: The Workstream Most Buyers Aren't Running Yet AI diligence is now what cyber-DD was in 2018: a discrete M&A workstream that wasn't standard until the loss profile forced it. After Bartz $1.5B, Mobley, TRAIGA, and EU AI Act high-risk obligations, here is the buyer-side framework.
