United States: Publishing

The Department of Justice’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division (“NFED”) has told the market exactly where it intends to focus: (1) public trust and financial integrity, (2) health care, (3) internal revenue, (4) global trade and commerce, and (5) corporate misconduct. NFED plans to target these five priorities in parallel under one roof with a shared data infrastructure, compounding the risk to companies that operate at the intersection of multiple priorities and raising the stakes for any company considering a voluntary self-disclosure of potential misconduct.

When a legal research startup trained its AI on lawyer memos derived from Westlaw's editorial summaries, it sparked a landmark copyright case that exposes how artificial intelligence extracts not just content, but the accumulated judgment and authority publishers spent decades building. As Google referral traffic plummets and AI-generated content farms proliferate, the question shifts from "was a copy made?" to "was the expert ever hired?"

The Federal Trade Commission has found new ways to impose substantial monetary penalties on companies despite a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that eliminated its primary enforcement tool. Two recent settlements totaling over $5 million demonstrate how the agency is leveraging alternative provisions of the FTC Act to pursue civil penalties for consumer protection violations, particularly those involving deceptive marketing practices and fake reviews.

Nearly 10 months after initiating an investigation into advertising by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the Advertising Standards Authority finally published...

When it comes to book publishing, Publishing Agreements, an Attorney plays a crucial role in ensuring you don't sign away your rights unknowingly. Here's a brief rundown of what we offer:

Legal issues for self publishing authors often bring unexpected problems amidst the creative freedom that makes self-publishing so appealing.

We know this because in 2013, HuffPost published an article entitled "25 Things You Wish You Hadn't Learned In 2013 And Must Forget in 2014."

This is an update to our July 17, 2020 article addressing the July 15, 2020 orders issued by Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Health "directing mitigation measures" in response to...

In April, State Farm debuted a commercial that appeared to feature footage from 1998 of ESPN's Kenny Mayne making startlingly, even eerily, accurate predictions.