ArticleWill "Alcohol In Moderation" Be Eliminated From The Upcoming Dietary Guidelines?For the first time, the upcoming federal guidance on alcohol consumption is being considered separately from the dietary guidelines.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleAI Copyright Rulings Signal A New Era For Fair UseRecent decisions in Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic have drawn attention for their implications on AI training and copyright law. In both cases, federal judges found that using copyrighted books to train...United StatesIntellectual PropertyMichael Best
ArticleFair Use May Shield LLM Training Using Copyrighted Materials, But Output Infringement Likely Is The Next (Better?) BattlegroundTo date, most efforts to challenge what LLMs like GPT-5, Claude, Llama, Grok, and Gemini, among others, are doing with copyrighted materials have focused on inputs used to train these models.United StatesIntellectual PropertyMichael Best
ArticleWhy Tenses Matter In Sentencing ReformMany eyes glossed over when teachers explained the difference between the past and present perfect tenses.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMichael Best
ArticleYou Win Some, You Lose SomeLast week an Illinois Appellate Court split the difference, finding that a one-year statute of limitations applies to claims arising under the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act...United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMichael Best
ArticleCalifornia Privacy Regulator Approves New CCPA Rules: Automated Decision-Making, Risk Assessments, And Cybersecurity AuditsThe California Privacy Protection Agency recently approved new regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act that introduce significant requirements for businesses regarding automated decision-making technology, risk assessments, and cybersecurity audits.United StatesPrivacyMichael Best
ArticleThe Great Resignation: Fix It … Or Feature It?Among the many problems that folks speculated about as the pandemic got its grip on the economy, surely the notion that a rush of people would be quitting their jobs was not one of them.United StatesStrategyMichael Best
Article3 Web3 Predictions For 2022Venture capital investment in blockchain related industries and technologies surpassed $25 Billion in 2021, which was 445% more than 2020.United StatesTechnologyMichael Best
ArticleComing Soon To An Employer Near You: AI-Driven Compensation ManagementEach year, Mercer issues a year-end executive incentive and benefits survey revealing insights gathered from a variety of U.S. public and private companies.United StatesTechnologyMichael Best
ArticleJoint RFI Issued For "Ultraprocessed" DefinitionYesterday, President Trump said he didn't like the term "artificial" in "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) because AI is "not artificial, it's genius." Many food companies don't like the word...United StatesTechnologyMichael Best
ArticleSequoia Is Serious About Crypto—for Good This TimeSequoia has revealed more details on its new evergreen fund structure that will allow it to go all-in on crypto projects.United StatesTechnologyMichael Best
ArticleNew EU Findings Call For The End Of BPA In Food Packaging. How Will FDA Respond?Ever since I started practicing law in the food and beverage space over three decades ago (sigh) the use of BPA in food packaging has been an issue of controversy.European UnionFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleMinnesota Paid Leave Act: Pastors And SECAhe Minnesota Paid Leave Law applies to nearly every type of employer (including churches) and employment in Minnesota. United StatesEmployment and HRMichael Best
ArticleCreatine Is The Next Big Thing In Food And Beverage. Here's Why.I was initially reluctant to do so because I was led to believe (falsely, it turns out) that creatine was only for bodybuilders who were looking to get "swole." Indeed, within the small gym-bro...United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleDid I Read This Right? A Favorable Food And Beverage Proposition 65 Decision From A California Court?Most companies I work with who do business in California have little good to say...United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleFlorida Is The First State To Ban "Lab Grown" Meat. But Why?Lab-grown meat is meat developed from animal stem cells. It has been the subject of $3 billion in investment capital between 2016 and 2022, and as many as 60 startups are in the industry.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleNutrition Labels On Wine Appears To Be Inevitable. Is That A Good Or A Bad Thing?Ithink it is only a matter of time before American consumers see nutrition labels on wine. The European Union recently mandated it, often using QR codes.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleTake Note - EEO-1 Filing Deadline Is June 4, 2024For anyone who missed it, the EEOC recently announced that its EEO-1 Data Collection will open on April 30, 2024, and that employers must file by June 4, 2024.United StatesGovernment, Public SectorMichael Best
ArticleNobody Seems To Be Happy With FDA's Front-Of-Pack Labelling Proposal. Why?I've done a lot of posting in the past about food and beverage labels. The upshot of my messages has generally been that nobody seems to agree on how best to do it.United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesMichael Best
ArticleThe "Vanishing Jury Trial" Is A Real Thing. And There Is Data To Prove It.In my 30-plus years as a trial lawyer, I have had roughly 35 jury trials. And a little over half of them were in the first 10 to 12 years of my career.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMichael Best