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Federal Government Invites Comment on Domestically Nonavailable Articles

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.14.20

On May 13, 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking inviting interested parties to submit information relevant to the periodic review of the FAR 25.104 list of domestically nonavailable articles exempt from the Buy American Act, either as end products or components. Companies have until July 13, 2020 to review their existing supply chains and identify articles or components that are not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality for addition to the list.

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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....