By: Daniel J. Ain and Ariana Zhao With 2024 underway, it’s worth reflecting on the flurry of lawsuits brought in 2023 by creators against owners of artificial intelligence technology companies that have forced the intersection of AI and intellectual property rights under the legal spotlight. With the unprecedented growth of...
Realscreen’s Factual Under 40 list, the entertainment publication’s twist on the famous 40 under 40 list, features thirty individuals at or under the age of forty who are “top talents shaping the unscripted and non-fiction content business today”. Mr. Ain was the only attorney to make this list, and was...
This past Friday, RPJ Attorneys Nicole Page and Daniel Ain presented a panel at the Fall 2023 DOC NYC festival on “Documentary Ethics and the Law”. The panel, which was sponsored by RPJ and Hulu, featured clients Jess Devaney, Nicholas Bruckman, Viridiana Lieberman, and Beth Aala who provided key insight...
The National College Athletic Association (NCAA), the organization responsible for regulating college sports and athletes in the US, seems to consistently find itself at the center of high-profile legal disputes. This article will provide a summary of several interesting disputes that have arisen this summer, involving areas of the law...
By Daniel Jason Ain The class-action lawsuit filed against Meta (Facebook's parent company) earlier this month by comedian and author Sarah Silverman and other authors may be just the first of many high-profile copyright lawsuits against companies that market, sell and otherwise exploit artificial intelligence (“AI”) products. A feature of...
Somewhat lost among the many ongoing and significant cases involving Donald Trump, from his recent indictment stemming from hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels to E. Jean Carroll’s defamation and sexual assault suit, is an interesting copyright suit filed by Trump in the U.S. District Court in Florida earlier...
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”[1] These twenty-six words comprise Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act and have, since Congress’ 1996 enactment of the Act, provided internet companies with...