The rise of generative AI and “deepfakes” — or videos and pictures that use a person’s image in a false way — has led to the wide proliferation of unauthorized clips that can damage celebrities’ brands and businesses. Talent agency WME has inked a partnership with Loti, a Seattle-based firm that specializes in software used to flag unauthorized content posted on the internet that includes clients’ likenesses.

(Subscription required) The Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, who worked in the Conviction and Sentence Alternatives (CASA) program as a federal prosecutor, aims to address the same issues and assist children in dependency court.

(Subscription required) A proposed bill requiring California workplaces to establish a “right to disconnect” for employees who are off the clock could set the stage for a huge increase in workplace litigation and push start-ups to set up shop out of state, an employment attorney warned.

Despite its use as a hardball negotiating tactic by aggressive developers, no project has broken ground, much less finished, as a result of the builder’s remedy. That’s partially because relatively few developers are willing to make use of the confusingly-worded law for lack of legal certainty.