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February 21, 2024 by Duane Morris

Beauty and the Artificial Intelligence Beast

Duane Morris partner Agatha Liu spoke with Personal Care Insights on potential risks, including personalization, appearance bias and regulatory compliance, as beauty companies integrate AI technologies.

Can you provide examples of legal issues within the beauty industry due to AI, and how they were addressed?
Liu: Yes, recently we’ve seen a number of class action suits against beauty companies alleging that their VTO tools collect users’ biometric facial information without their informed consent, in violation of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which requires that companies that collect certain biometric data first obtain informed consent before collecting the data, inform consumers about use, retention and destruction policies with respect to biometric data, and take steps to protect it.

Read the full interview on the Personal Care Insights website.

November 17, 2023November 16, 2023 by Duane Morris

Webinar Replay: Strategic Contracting to Reduce Risk in AI

A webinar replay of the Get Smart with AI webinar series session Strategic Contracting to Reduce Risk is now available.

November 1, 2023November 16, 2023 by Duane Morris

Webinar: Strategic Contracting to Reduce Risk in AI

Duane Morris will present the next session in the Get Smart with AI webinar series, Strategic Contracting to Reduce Risk, a Zoom webinar on risk mitigation strategies for AI use in business, on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.

For more information and to register, visit the Duane Morris website.

October 3, 2023 by Duane Morris

A Discussion with the Copyright Office and UPSTO on Where AI Policy Is Headed

Duane Morris partner Agatha Liu will be moderating the California Lawyers Association webinar “Where Our AI Policy Is Headed – A Discussion with the Copyright Office and the Patent and Trademark Office” on October 26, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific.

For more information and to register, please visit the CLA website.

September 19, 2023 by Duane Morris

How to Mitigate Harms and Risks from AI Technology

Duane Morris partner Agatha H. Liu, Ph.D., authored the article, “Mitigating AI Bias with Responsible AI Design,” which appeared in New Matter, a publication of the California Lawyers Association.

Read the full article.

September 5, 2023 by Duane Morris

How to Protect Your Company’s Online Data in the AI Era

Duane Morris attorneys Agatha H. Liu and Ariel Seidner authored the Westlaw Today article, “Safeguarding Companies’ Online Data in the AI Era: Evolving Technology and Legal Protection,” which identifies considerations companies should account for when undertaking efforts to protect their online data. Read the full article.

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 by Duane Morris

And the Copyright Registration Goes to… the AI Algorithm or the Machine?

The Copyright Registration Guidance published by the United States Copyright Office in March mainly addressed whether a human providing simple prompts or other input to an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could obtain a copyright registration for the output that the AI algorithm generated based on the human input. … Now a few months later, a court has handed out a decision on whether to grant a copyright registration to the AI algorithm in Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv-01564 (D.D.C).

Read the full post on the Artificial Intelligence Blog.