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Deepfakes, Voice Cloning, and AI Impersonation: The Global Rules Are Already Here, and They Don’t Agree

Deepfakes, Voice Cloning, and AI Impersonation: The Global Rules Are Already Here, and They Don’t Agree A cloned executive voice. A fake endorsement. A synthetic campaign ad. A deepfake intimate image. Each of these can now trigger criminal liability, consumer-protection claims, platform-removal obligations, or identity-rights lawsuits—depending on where your business operates and which country’s law

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DMCA Agent Requirements for Online Businesses

DMCA Agent Requirements for Online Businesses A DMCA Agent Is Easy to Designate. Real Compliance Is Harder. Most online platforms treat the DMCA agent filing as a one-and-done administrative task. That is a mistake. They designate an agent, post a policy, and assume they have handled the issue. Then an actual dispute arrives. A notice

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Trade Secrets in the AI Economy: Why Businesses Need Stronger Protection Now

Trade Secrets in the AI Economy: Why Businesses Need Stronger Protection Now For many businesses, the most valuable asset never appears on a balance sheet. It is the information competitors cannot see and cannot easily copy: source code, pricing logic, training methods, customer data, internal workflows, manufacturing processes, supplier knowledge, and the operational know-how that

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Washington State Arbitration Clauses: When They Help and When They Hurt

Washington State Arbitration Clauses: When They Help and When They Hurt The Arbitration Clause Is Not Harmless Boilerplate An arbitration clause is a risk-allocation provision. It can limit discovery, narrow your remedies, increase your costs, and leave you stuck with a bad result. Too many businesses treat arbitration as standard contract language. They should not.

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The 8 Biggest Mistakes Foreign Companies Make in U.S. Litigation

The 8 Biggest Mistakes Foreign Companies Make in U.S. Litigation A foreign company gets sued in the United States and makes a common mistake: it treats the case like an ordinary business dispute. Management assumes the complaint is mostly leverage. Someone decides to wait before involving counsel. Employees start emailing each other about what really

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Trademark Registration in Cuba: Why Companies Should Be Thinking Ahead

Why Companies Should Be Filing Trademarks in Cuba For most companies (and trademark lawyers), Cuba is a someday problem. But someday problems in first-to-file countries have a way of becoming someone else’s mark. The issue is not politics or timing. Cuba is a first-to-file trademark jurisdiction, and waiting too long can leave you fighting over

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Attorney-Client Privilege in Cross-Border M&A: How Privilege Gets Lost During the Deal

Attorney-Client Privilege in Cross-Border M&A: How Privilege Gets Lost During the Deal Last week we wrote about how attorney-client privilege can be lost in domestic M&A when brokers, consultants, and other non-legal advisors are pulled into legal communications. See Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A: How Brokers and Other Advisors Can Create Serious Risk. Cross-border deals contain

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Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A: How Brokers and Other Advisors Can Create Serious Risk

Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A: How Brokers and Other Advisors Can Create Serious Risk Today let’s talk about the attorney-client privilege, how important that safeguard is in M&A transactions, and how not to mess it up. Specifically, let’s discuss this scintillating topic in the context of working with brokers and other non-legal advisors over the course

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