On June 18, 2026, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to report the NO FAKES Act of 2026 (S. 4591), with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Grassley reported the substitute June 24; the bill sits on the Senate Legislative Calendar (Calendar No. 446), awaiting floor action. A House companion, H.R. 8915, remains pending

On July 20, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (No. 4:24-cv-05417), granted final approval to a $1.5 billion settlement resolving authors’ claims that Anthropic built its training library out of pirated books — the largest copyright settlement on record. The settlement resolves only one piece of

A conflict between a canned-coffee company and Pepsi is about to change how much legal risk lives inside every name your agency recommends. The Supreme Court just accepted RiseandShine Corporation v. PepsiCo, Inc. On the surface it is a fight over the RISE trademark, used by both a canned nitro-brewed coffee brand and PepsiCo’s own

Your team used AI to draft the blog post driving your best traffic. Your designer used AI to generate the lifestyle images on your landing page. Your last ad campaign came out of a prompt with a few edits before it shipped. If a competitor lifts the image and runs it in their own ad,