St. Thomas Law Review
Artificial IntelligenceCopyright LawFeaturedSupreme Court
March 2, 2026By Hayley Grabowski
With just a few words entered into ChatGPT, a painting can materialize, raising the question of whether artificial intelligence (“AI”) is the author or merely a tool. In March of 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia answered that an author must be human.[i] The holding arose in Thaler v. Perlmutter, […]
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedPrivacyThe Lanham ActTrademark Law
February 12, 2026By Victoria Reyes
Actor Matthew McConaughey (“McConaughey”) recently sought an inventive shield against artificial intelligence (“AI”) impersonators: he registered trademarks on recordings of his own voice, including his iconic phrase, “alright, alright, alright.”[i] This move made headlines not for its legal precision but for what it revealed: a glaring gap in the law.[ii] As AI makes it […]
Artificial IntelligenceEvidenceFeaturedFlorida Law
October 21, 2025By Laura Leyva Hevia
First-party residential property insurance relies heavily on photographic evidence. When a homeowner experiences damage from a storm, fire or plumbing leak, the usual process is to file a claim, submit pictures of the damage and await inspection by an insurance adjuster. This pathway to collect evidence assumes that photos accurately capture real damage and that […]
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedTrademark Law
September 25, 2025By Chelsea Barcenas
The “AI Barbie” trend became a viral sensation in early 2025 as millions of users uploaded selfies into generative tools that transformed them into Barbie-style avatars, complete with pink packaging and captions like “This Barbie is a Privacy Lawyer.”[i] Mattel, Inc. (“Mattel”), owner of Barbie since 1959, suddenly saw its product remixed at a massive […]
