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How California’s New AI Laws Impact Content Creators and IP Owners Throughout the Country
California has emerged as a frontrunner in advancing the connection between AI and law, namely regulations that govern AI use. The state continues to take steps toward new artificial intelligence (AI) laws. On September 28, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate...
How California’s New AI Laws Impact Content Creators and IP Owners Throughout the Country
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Meet This Month's Hot Entrepreneur! Meet Jamie Glowacki, an impressive business owner and now widely known published author. Jamie came to Gouchev Law for intellectual property protection. Things were moving at such high-speed in her business, that we dove right into...
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Meet This Month's Hot Entrepreneur! Meet Jamie Jensen, a boss entrepreneur and an extremely talented copywriter and founder of Your Hot Copy. Before we started working together, Jamie had been contemplating whether she should make the investment in a lawyer. Here is...
Every LLC should have an operating agreement, but because there’s typically no filing requirement for this document, many companies use a cookie cutter contract and just fill in the blanks. That’s one of the riskiest things you could do, especially if your LLC has...
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