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Firm News 5 results

Firm News | 1 min read | 07.24.24

The Daily Journal Names Warrington Parker Among Top AI Lawyers

The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Warrington Parker as a Top Artificial Intelligence Lawyer in California in 2024. The annual list recognizes California lawyers who have made significant contributions to artificial intelligence law over the past year.

Firm News | 2 min read | 12.01.23

Crowell & Moring Named to “GIR 100” for Ninth Consecutive Year

Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.

Firm News | 2 min read | 02.27.23

Crowell & Moring Named to "GIR 100" for Eighth Consecutive Year

Washington – February 27, 2023: Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. Based on extensive research, GIR selects 100 firms from around the world that it deems most able to handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations. This is the eighth consecutive year that Crowell & Moring has made the list.

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Client Alerts 8 results

Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.09.25

When Does a Service Provider Become Liable for Its Users’ Piracy? The Supreme Court Grants Cert in Cox v. Sony to Address Issues of Contributory Infringement and Willful Infringement

Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court held that “one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.” MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913, 919 (2005). In the Grokster case, the Supreme Court found that peer-to-peer file sharing companies could be liable for copyright infringement for their users’ deployment of file sharing software. There, the Court found that liability was warranted because the file sharing companies knew that its users were infringing, and the companies materially contributed to that infringement.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.02.25

Section 230 Reform: What Websites Need to Know Now

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.

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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.

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Press Coverage 16 results

Press Coverage | 01.15.25

Unhappy consumers will drive the next wave of AI lawsuits

Legal Dive

Press Coverage | 12.10.24

Lawyers Navigate Novel AI Legal Battles

Financial Times

Press Coverage | 12.06.24

Flattened Fair-Use Factors Fall Flat With US Judge At Hearing On AI training Data

MLex

Publications 7 results

Publication | 06.26.25

Is Section 230 Going To Change? The FTC, DOJ And FCC Signal Significant Change For Online Businesses

The Computer & Intranet Lawyer

Publication | 01.15.25

Artificial Intelligence: The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of AI Class Action Litigation Has Become a Wild, Wild World

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been finding its way into business for some time, but that trend was dramatically accelerated with the arrival of generative AI (Gen AI), which can create new content on its own. The release of a relatively easy-to-use version of Gen AI in late 2022 was followed by the rapid adoption of the technology—and not long after, by the arrival of class action lawsuits centered on AI.

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Publication | 10.09.23

Cybersecurity Threats Increase Civil And Criminal Liability For Government Contractors

Corporate Compliance Insights

Events 7 results

Event | 03.27.25 - 03.28.25

2025 AIPLA Trade Secret Summit

Join Crowell's Mark Klapow (moderator) and Warrington Parker (speaker) on March 27th at 10:00 AM CDT, along with Derron Blakely, General Counsel, Onebrief for a discussion of "Industry Panel Part I - Trade Secret Issues Affecting Software." On March 28th at 10:00 AM CDT, Mark Klapow will also be moderating a discussion of "Media Relations for Trade Secret Matters" along with Scott Lindlaw - FGS Global Inc. and Alex Lange, Trident DMG during the 2025 AIPLA Trade Secret Summit in Nashville, TN.

Event | 10.20.24

2024 AIPPI World Congress

Crowell & Moring Partner Warrington Parker III, a member of the firm's Litigation and White Collar ＆ Regulatory Enforcement Groups, will be speaking at the 2024 AIPPI World Congress, taking place October 19-20, 2024 in Hangzhou, China. His panel, "The Copyright Dilemma: Trained to Infringe?" will be take place October 20, 2024 at 14:00-15:30GMT + 8.

Event | 03.06.24, 4:15 PM PST - 5:30 PM PST

Health Care Fraud Enforcement, Defense, and Corporate Compliance - Where are we today? | ABA White Collar Crime 2024

Join Warrington Parker with fellow panelists Marissel Descalzo of Tache, Bronis and Descalzo, PA (Moderator), Timothy P. Loper of Bristol Myers Squibb, Adrian Mebane of AmeriHealth Caritas and Allan Medina of the United States Department of Justice.

Webinars 1 result

Webinar | 06.11.25, 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

Section 230: Implications for Digital Platforms, Online Businesses and E-Commerce

Section 230 was enacted as part of the United States Communications Decency Act (CDA), providing immunity to interactive computer service providers for third-party content. Known as “the 26 words that created the internet,” this statute is responsible for the development of the modern internet as we know it.