AI and the Law: A Year-End Retrospective 2025 and Beyond

Privacy and biometric litigation are, by volume, the most active — driven by BIPA, CIPA, and a wave of cases targeting both AI tool providers and the companies that license and use them, including the recent Clearview settlement. Copyright litigation is equally active, with authors, news organizations, and other content creators suing the major AI developers over the use of copyrighted works to train large language models.
The presentation covers the D.C. Circuit’s Thaler v. Perlmutter decision, which addressed whether AI-generated outputs can be copyrighted at all. Other topics discussed include securities cases targeting “AI washing” under both SEC enforcement and private class actions, algorithmic discrimination claims moving forward under existing civil rights statutes, the first wave of product liability cases against AI chatbot developers, and the antitrust exposure emerging around shared algorithmic pricing tools.
The presentation also covers the regulatory component of AI expansion. On the regulatory side, every state introduced AI legislation in 2025, creating a fractured compliance landscape that the federal government is now actively trying to preempt. The European Union’s AI Act, the first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, also reaches U.S. companies.
Learning Objectives
• Identify Core Litigation Areas
• Understand Current & Future AI Governance
• Describe Trends of AI Risk
• Discuss Example Cases
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