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Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – June 24, 2024: Crowell & Moring has been recommended in eight practice areas in the 17th edition of the Legal 500 United States. In addition, partner Daniel Forman, co-chair of the firm’s Government Contracts Group, has been named to the Legal 500’s “Hall of Fame” for Government Contracts.

The Southern District of New York issued a recent opinion in Lehrman et al v. Lovo, Inc., 1-24-cv-03770 (SDNY Jul. 10, 2025) (J. Paul Oetken) regarding copyright infringement issues involving artificial intelligence models, focusing this time on voice cloning. Two voice-over actors, Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage, filed a lawsuit against Lovo, Inc., a company specializing in AI-driven text-to-speech services. The Plaintiffs alleged that Lovo used artificial intelligence to clone their voices without authorization, raising complex legal questions regarding intellectual property and privacy rights in the age of AI.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 has been credited with “creating” the internet by immunizing websites and platforms from lawsuits arising from the content posted by third-party users. Specifically, an internet company is not liable for publishing or posting content drafted by another person under conventional common law tort theories such as defamation or slander, however loathsome, violent or otherwise hateful that content is.  At the same time, Section 230 also immunizes a website or platform that engages in good-faith moderation of content it deems to violate its terms of use/conditions or community standards. 

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed order prohibiting Workado, LLC, from advertising the accuracy of its artificial intelligence (AI) detection products unless it possesses competent and reliable evidence demonstrating that the model performs as depicted.

After the recent barrage of lawsuits filed by copyright owners against artificial intelligence platforms, it will likely take a few years for the dust to settle on multiple legal issues surrounding the new technology and intellectual property rights, says Crowell & Moring partner David Ervin, who co-leads the firm’s Advertising & Brand Protection Group.

The landscape for advertisers and marketers has been shifting in an exciting direction. Over the past decade, industries have firmly embraced multichannel communication and brand building, creating a strategy based on a mix of traditional media and social media, with the persona of the “influencer” as the modern incarnation of brand communication. However, early adopters are on to the next, new universe for connecting with a different, wider, and younger audience around their brands: the metaverse.

The 2016 ANA/BAA 38th Marketing Law Conference, at the Downtown Chicago Marriott, Nov. 9-11, 2016 builds on the tradition as the broadest marketing and advertising law conference with deep practical legal content, fruitful networking and major CLE credits. Deep dives into all aspects of Marketing and Advertising Law and Digital Media; IP and Privacy, FTC, State A.G. and state-regulation (NAD, CARU), Lanham Act, Class Actions, with many new sessions and 5 more sessions added to the total; Hear from 125 of the nation's leading inside and outside counsel and federal, state and self-regulatory officials. In 2015 a record attendance of 750, with over 200 major brands present.

Program: 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Eastern

Gift cards, rewards points, and other loyalty programs have improved the way retailers, consumer brands, entertainment companies, restaurants, and other merchants connect with their consumers. However, with these innovative programs comes risk and compliance concerns. Specifically, stringent federal and state consumer protection laws that are sometimes in conflict make compliance associated with these programs tricky and expensive. At the same time, arcane escheat laws subject companies to potential liabilities in the millions for unclaimed property obligations. The risks to companies holding unredeemed account balances has increased as cash-strapped states have ramped-up their enforcement efforts, including Delaware’s recent challenge of third party gift card service provider models and separate issuer entities.