In-House Counsel Board Oversight of AI and Cybersecurity Risk: What Caremark and McDonald's Mean for GCs After McDonald's and Marchand, Delaware boards face personal liability for failing to oversee AI and cybersecurity risk. Here's how GCs should structure board-level reporting to satisfy Caremark and SEC obligations.
Founders What TRAIGA Requires From Texas AI Startups: Compliance, Governance, and Enforcement TRAIGA compliance for Texas AI startups: prohibited practices, disclosure obligations, NIST safe harbor, AG enforcement with $200K penalties, and how it compares to Colorado and EU AI laws.
Law Firms AI Ethics for Lawyers: A Practical Compliance Checklist for Using Generative AI in Client Work What solo and small-firm attorneys must do before using ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot in client work — competence, confidentiality, supervision, and disclosure obligations under ABA Model Rules, Texas Disciplinary Rules, and state bar ethics opinions.
Musicians AI-Generated Music Copyright After Suno and Udio: What Musicians Own and Can Commercially License The RIAA sued Suno and Udio for training on copyrighted recordings. The Copyright Office says purely AI-generated music isn't copyrightable. Here's what musicians actually own — and the commercial licensing risks before you release.
Privacy Law AI in EdTech: FERPA, COPPA, and State Student Privacy Laws When Your App Adds AI Features When your EdTech app adds AI tutoring, grading, or content generation, three regulatory layers apply at once: FERPA, COPPA's updated 2026 rule, and 100+ state student privacy laws restricting profiling and automated decision-making.
AI Law AI Vendor Agreement Clauses: What In-House Counsel Must Negotiate Before Signing AI vendor contracts shift risk in ways standard SaaS templates don't cover. Five clauses in-house counsel must negotiate: training data, output IP, hallucination liability, model deprecation, and indemnification gaps.
Health Tech When Your Health App Becomes a Medical Device: FDA SaMD Regulation for AI Health Tech When does your AI health app become an FDA-regulated medical device? This guide covers SaMD classification triggers, the CDS four-criteria exemption test, 510(k) vs De Novo vs PMA pathways, and the FDA's Predetermined Change Control Plan for adaptive AI models.
Visual Artists When AI Trains on Your Art: Copyright, Style Imitation, and Legal Options for Visual Artists Visual artists whose work feeds AI image models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have legal rights. Here is what copyright law, active litigation, the Copyright Office, and technical tools like Glaze and Nightshade mean for your art today.
Founders The GPL Trap: How Open-Source Licenses Can Force Your Startup to Open-Source Its Proprietary Code GPL and AGPL-licensed dependencies can force your startup to publish proprietary source code. Here is how copyleft licenses work and what to do about them.
Game Studios AI-Generated Game Assets After the 2025 Copyright Office Report: Copyright, Platform Policies, and IP Ownership for Studios Studios using generative AI for game assets face new legal questions after the 2025 Copyright Office report: copyright registration, Steam/Apple/Google disclosure, and what IP actually survives.
Law Firms AI Tools in Legal Practice: Model Rule 1.1 Competence and Confidentiality Obligations Adopting AI in your practice? Rule 1.1 competence, Rule 1.6 confidentiality, and Rule 5.3 supervision all apply to AI tools — and 2026 sanctions cases show courts are enforcing them. Here's what solo and small-firm attorneys need to know, including Texas-specific guidance.
In-House Counsel M&A Due Diligence for AI Products: A Technical and Legal Checklist for Acquirers AI targets require a different diligence playbook than standard tech M&A. Here are the six risk buckets, red flags that should reprice or kill a deal, and how to structure AI-specific reps and warranties.
In-House Counsel IP Ownership of AI-Generated Work Product: What In-House Counsel Should Establish Now Your employees are using AI tools to create deliverables, contracts, and analysis — but AI-generated work product may not be copyrightable. Here's what in-house counsel should establish now to protect the company's IP position.
In-House Counsel Building an AI Use Policy: What General Counsel Needs to Cover in 2026 Only 37% of organizations have a formal AI governance policy despite 69% suspecting unauthorized employee AI use. Here's the seven components every AI use policy needs, plus how to fold in TRAIGA and EU AI Act obligations.
Writers AI-Assisted Writing and Copyright: What Authors Need to Know Before Submitting or Publishing AI writing tools are everywhere, but the copyright questions they raise aren't settled. Here's what the Copyright Office's 2025 AI guidance means for authors who use ChatGPT, Claude, or Sudowrite — and what to disclose before submitting or signing.
Law Firms Law Firm Data Breach Response: Ethics and Notification Duties for Texas Attorneys A data breach at your firm triggers three separate clocks: Texas Chapter 521, TDRPC 1.05 ethics duties, and possibly HIPAA. Here's what triggers notification, the current timelines (including a 2023 change many sources still get wrong), and when to bring in outside breach counsel.
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…
