James G. Gatto

1 day ago | mondaq.com | James G. Gatto

SM Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton More Sheppard Mullin is a full service Global 100 firm with over 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1927, companies have turned to Sheppard Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the US, the firm’s clients include more than half of the Fortune 100.

3 days ago | jdsupra.com | James G. Gatto

The Copyright Office released a “Pre-publication” version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights, was fired amid a shakeup at the Copyright Office. The Report was also supposed to address infringement issues, but did not. Those issued will now be addressed in a Part 4 of the Report. A more detailed summary will be provided, but some high level takeaways are as follows.

1 month ago | mondaq.com | James G. Gatto |Alexander J. Lazar |Maxwell Earp-Thomas

SM Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton More Sheppard Mullin is a full service Global 100 firm with over 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1927, companies have turned to Sheppard Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the US, the firm’s clients include more than half of the Fortune 100.

1 month ago | mondaq.com | James G. Gatto

We previously reported on the groundbreaking AI Fair Useruling in the Thomson Reuters Ross Intelligence case, where thecourt found that based on the facts of this case fair use was not adefense. Ross Intelligence moved, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(b), for certification of the Court's Order, forinterlocutory appeal and for a stay pending that appeal. The Courthas now granted that request.

1 month ago | jdsupra.com | James G. Gatto |Alexander J. Lazar |Maxwell Earp-Thomas

On April 1, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) submitted a letter to the House Financial Services Committee expressing concerns with an introduced draft of H.R. 2392—the Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy (STABLE) Act of 2025 (the “Act”)—which purports to stablish a comprehensive regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the U.S. In the letter, CSBS expresses support for the development of a national framework for payment stablecoin...