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The California Lawyers Association (CLA) has named Daniel M. Goldberg, Chair of our Data Strategy, Privacy & Security Group, the 2025 "California Lawyer of the Year!” This award recognizes a lawyer’s significant contributions to the development of California privacy law. Daniel becomes only the third person, and first private practitioner, to receive this award. ? A highly respected leader in privacy law, Daniel advises on a wide range of privacy, security, and AI matters, including compliance with consumer, business, and HR datasets. His expertise spans from handling high-stakes regulatory enforcement actions to shaping the application of privacy laws, including one of the first public actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Daniel will accept this award at CLA's 2025 Privacy Summit in Los Angeles on February 27. Congratulations, Daniel! ?? #privacylaw #datasecurity #californiaprivacy #CCPA

Won a challenge at NAD and want to get it enforced on Google? There's a channel for that. #advertisinglaw #bbbnationalprograms #nationaladvertisingdivision

Entertainment Associate Marlique P. was honored by Diverse Representation on their prestigious "Top 10 To Watch in 2025" list this past weekend. The list celebrates Black agents, attorneys, managers, and publicists who are breaking barriers and providing exceptional counsel to top talent in sports and entertainment. Marlique is pictured here at Diverse Representation's celebratory brunch in Los Angeles. Congratulations, Marlique! ? See the full list here: https://lnkd.in/e4mvzcJc

Larissa Calva Ruiz is a speaker for the session, "The Amplifier Effect: How to Increase Impact with Strategy" during the 2025 Decididas Summit in Mexico City. Lorena Ochoa, a top-ranked former professional golfer will moderate the panel including, writer and director Alejandra Márquez, founder of Global Gift Foundation Maria Bravo, and founder of The Ideateur, Elsa Marie Collins. https://lnkd.in/eCcBkCRw #Decididas #EntertainmentLaw

Join us at next week’s Privacy Summit for “Ad Tech: The Current State of Ad Tech – State Privacy, Regulatory Issues, Litigation Risk, and More!” with moderator Taylor Bloom (BakerHostetler) and speakers Daniel M. Goldberg (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz), Keir Lamont (Future of Privacy Forum), and Michael Hahn (IAB)! Our group of legal experts will provide an in-depth exploration of the most pressing issues facing the adtech industry today, including: the impact of state-specific privacy laws, regulatory enforcement trends and compliance strategies, and litigation insights and practical guidance on mitigating exposure. For more information and to register for the Annual Privacy Summit visit: https://lnkd.in/gthMZDXZ. The deadline to pre-register is February 20, 2025. Visit https://lnkd.in/g_SHe5av to register today! Onsite registration will be available beginning February 27, 2025. #CLAPrivacySummit25

This morning, the court in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence held that a developer's use of Westlaw's copyright-protected headnotes to train an AI-powered legal research tool was not fair use. It's kind of a big deal. Here's my take.

Come to Frankfurt Kurnit’s Interactive Entertainment CLE “How to Play the Game: Legal Developments in Games” on March 19, 2025 (9:00am to 5:30pm) at SFMOMA in San Francisco! S. Gregory Boyd and Sean F. Kane invite you to hear and meet guest panelists discussing Mass Arbitration; Hollywood and Games; SAG-AFTRA; Ethics and AI; Recent Changes in Privacy and Data Security Law; and Advertising, Digital Purchases, Subscriptions. Complimentary registration here: https://bit.ly/40NZ5He #interactiveentertainmentlaw #interactivegames #videogames #videogamelaw #CLE

We are pleased to announce that Jason Howell has joined Frankfurt Kurnit as a Partner and Co-Chair of the Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Group. Mr. Howell was previously at Perkins Coie, where he led the firm’s advertising practice. Welcome to the firm, Jason! https://lnkd.in/eJSmB6Aw

Molly Rothschild moderates the session, "ABCDE...WTF?: Attribution, Bots, Copyright, Deep Fakes, Embedding: How Social Media is Disrupting the Basics" during The Copyright Society's Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans. Molly will be joined by experts Zachary St. Martin and Elizabeth Townsend Gard as they explore emerging challenges in social media, addressing issues like attribution, deep fakes, embedding complexities, and platform terms of service. Drawing on recent legal developments like the NO FAKES ACT and circuit court splits, panelists will examine how social media is fundamentally disrupting traditional copyright principles. Details here: https://lnkd.in/eAM5fRM2 #CopyrightSociety #CopyrightLaw #MediaLaw

The DMCA safe harbor immunizes websites against copyright claims based on user content. But when does a website's interaction with that content jeopardize this important protection? In Capitol Records v. Vimeo, the Second Circuit tackled this question, providing much needed clarity in a murky area of copyright law. Check out my latest blog post for more.