AI Training Data: 6 Critical Sourcing Rules for 2026
Amazon is cutting the spines off rare books to scan them. Here are 6 legal rules on AI training data sourcing every business needs in 2026.
AI Training Clause: 7 Essential Contract Safeguards
Twitch now trains Amazon’s AI on channel content by default. The mechanism is an AI training clause — and it may conflict with promises you already made to clients.
Does Your Employer Own Your Side Hustle IP?
Side hustle IP is not automatically yours. Invention assignment clauses, state carve-out statutes, and the seven traps that decide who owns your project.
AI Copyright Settlement: 5 Critical Business Risks
A judge just approved the $1.5B Anthropic AI copyright settlement. Here are 5 legal risks every business using generative AI should weigh now.
Defining Confidential Information: What Counts and What Doesn’t
Defining confidential information wrong sinks an NDA. See 6 critical clauses carve-outs, marking, residuals that make your terms enforceable.
Non-Disclosure Agreement: 7 Costly Mistakes to Avoid
A non-disclosure agreement is the quiet workhorse of business law. It sits in the background of almost every deal, hire, and partnership, and nobody thinks about it until information they cared about ends up somewhere it should not be. By then the agreement either does its job or exposes how badly it was drafted. The […]
Trademarks Built Through Use: Why Your Brand Has Rights Already
Trademarks built through use, not just registration, create real brand rights. Learn how common-law rights work and the 5 ways to protect your mark.
AI-Generated Inventions: 5 Critical Patent Risks 2026
This week, an artificial intelligence did something inventors have always done by hand: it discovered a better way to make a drug. As Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross reported in the June 17 edition of The Innermost Loop, OpenAI and the chemistry startup Molecule.one turned a frontier model loose in a robotic lab, where across 10,080 experiments […]
AI Voice and Likeness: A Guide to Synthetic Media Deals
AI voice and likeness deals now carry real legal risk. See how AB 1836, the ELVIS Act, and the NO FAKES Act reshape synthetic media contracts in 2026.
AI Trade Secret Theft: 5 Critical Business Risks
This week’s most consequential business-law story did not come from a courtroom — it came from a letter to the Senate. As Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross reported in the June 25 edition of The Innermost Loop, Anthropic has accused Alibaba’s Qwen lab of the “largest known distillation attack” on its Claude models: roughly 28.8 million harvested […]