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Expanding FAPIIS: First "Ownership," Now "Predecessors"

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.17.14

On December 4, 2014, the FAR Councils issued a proposed rule that would require offerors to disclose all "predecessor" entities that held a federal contract or grant within the prior three years, with comments due by February 2, 2015. This information, in addition to the recent addition of ownership information, will be stored in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS).


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Client Alert | 8 min read | 06.30.25

AI Companies Prevail in Path-Breaking Decisions on Fair Use

Last week, artificial intelligence companies won two significant copyright infringement lawsuits brought by copyright holders, marking an important milestone in the development of the law around AI. These decisions – Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta (decided on June 23 and 25, 2025, respectively), along with a February 2025 decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence – suggest that AI companies have plausible defenses to the intellectual property claims that have dogged them since generative AI technologies became widely available several years ago. Whether AI companies can, in all cases, successfully assert that their use of copyrighted content is “fair” will depend on their circumstances and further development of the law by the courts and Congress....