EdCavazos

Technology Lawyer (Managing Partner, Austin office of Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman @pillsburylaw) & Adj. Professor - Software and Video Game Law @ UT Law

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Laura Killalea and Jean Kuei explore recent efforts from federal, state and local legislators and regulators to prevent #AI-related #employmentdiscrimination and advise companies on what they should do to ensure compliance. https://t.co/p2EYPN5dt4

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Welcome to Welcome to the team, Tony! https://t.co/TOpzZLbbip

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Members of our Public Policy team discuss the #BidenAdministration’s efforts to address #discrimination caused by #AI with its release of the AI Bill of Rights Blueprint. https://t.co/EW3UM7qLsd

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Our Pillsbury team explores recent #congressional developments on #AIregulation, including the possible establishment of a new federal AI regulatory agency. https://t.co/hDGnfukRqw

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The NFT trademark fights continue. https://t.co/gn2v4NbTR1

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Shani Rivaux, Jennifer Altman and Marcus Leonard look at a proposed amendment that would significantly tighten the conduct that constitutes a violation of the #Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA). #tcpa https://t.co/cX7jHFdE1o~

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I'll be speaking at the 36th Annual UT CLE Technology Conference in Austin next Thursday, along with long-time friend and client Gavino Morin of Bluepoint Games. We're discussing evolving licensing issues related to AI and NFTs. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/M5sp5mYuqz

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Google releases MusicLM, a generative AI tool that allows anyone to create music from a natural language prompt. Early examples are pretty impressive. Sign up here to try it out. https://t.co/TY3oNotHse

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AI startup Anthromorphic seeks to guide the outputs of AI language models in a subjectively "safer and more helpful" direction by training it with an initial list of principles, pulled from various interesting sources. #AIValues https://t.co/Myz0TD30rF

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Are the benefits of mandatory age verification rules on the Net worth the privacy hit? h/t Eric Goldman https://t.co/12hVXKj9Aj

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There is so much confusion regarding transfer royalties and NFTs. Here is a good primer for those trying to understand the current lay of the land. https://t.co/4npTRSOJVf

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The Investor Panel at this morning’s 2023 Emerging Growth Liquidity Summit was great! Panelists were Pillsbury’s Veronica Nunn, Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Robert Strauss (Peak Rock), Ryan Atlas (Vista Equity) and Kent Lucas (non sibi ventures).

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I’m really proud of our capital markets team, which advised Austin-based Interactive Strength (d/b/a FORME) on its successful IPO earlier this month. It just goes to show that while not as active as it has been, the public markets are still a viable… https://t.co/OQaqfcyWU2

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We are going to be seeing more and more of this - AI written books are flooding Amazon making it hard to tell the real stuff from the computer-generated titles. #AI #GenerativeAI https://t.co/tvicWVMZDE

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Reflecting growing claims activity, #cyberinsurance premiums have risen significantly and could balloon to $22.5 billion by 2025. On Policyholder Pulse, Philip He and Eric Gold examine how insurers are increasingly relying on policy changes that attempt… https://t.co/ZV7gjW9CTB

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Our AI team takes a look at counterfactual theories, a practice that dates back to Aristotle and which is increasingly being used in AI programs. #artificialintelligence https://t.co/RHFUfkzGiS

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Jude Tigar keeps the lawsuit against Github and OpenAI alive by denying the motion to dismiss as to most claims, and allowing repleading of several. Order linked to in the article. https://t.co/UsXZG6rYtv

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Welcome to Pillsbury, Steve! https://t.co/rAWS5PVj4J

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Pillsbury attorneys Scott Morton, Steve Farmer and I shared some thoughts on corporate AI policies, which every company should consider as their employees flood to ChatGPT and other similar tools. #GernerativeAI #AIPolicy https://t.co/SrVdH5RNHo

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My colleague Pat Doody explores the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking and the proposed changes addressing the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s authority to issue #discretionarydenials. https://t.co/LzQicPJi7d