AI Law
Operating inside legal uncertainty — not waiting for clarity.
The discipline.
Practice areas under AI Law include model selection and procurement counseling, AI authorship and IP strategy, AI agency and contracting, AI company governance and Caremark-style oversight, training-data licensing, deepfake and digital-replica work, and policy/regulatory engagement. Reference material: docs/design-system/AI-Law-in-the-US-source-material-for-discipline-framing-April-2026.md.
AI Law is the discipline of counseling the people building, deploying, and depending on systems that the law has not yet figured out how to think about. A founder building an autonomous agent that signs contracts. A studio licensing a voice model trained on a deceased artist. An investor whose portfolio company's product is a fine-tuned model whose weights may or may not be its property. A creator who used a frontier model to draft a screenplay and now learns the screenplay may not be copyrightable. The law is moving — Thaler, Bartz, the Copyright Office reports, California's SB 53, the EU AI Act, the patchwork of state laws — and most of it is moving while clients are already operating.
We do not pretend to have settled answers. We work alongside clients to make defensible decisions inside unsettled questions: which model to choose and on what terms, how to document human authorship to preserve copyright, how to allocate liability when an AI agent acts, how to structure a company whose value lives in weights and prompts. We publish in this space and we expect to influence how the law develops.
Practice areas commonly used here.
A practice is a discrete unit of work — a filing, a closing, a transaction. The discipline is the broader lens. Each practice area below is informed by this discipline; many also draw on others through the matrix below.
Practice areas under this discipline are being written.
For now, schedule a consultation to discuss how this discipline applies to your situation. Detailed practice-area pages will land in subsequent releases.
Where this connects.
How this discipline draws on the others. Engagements rarely sit in one row of the matrix; counsel composed across rows is the point.
Estate Planning
AI agents and models held in trust; agent succession; valuation of AI assets at death (no established market, Thaler limits transferable copyright value).
Read the disciplineReal and Intellectual Property
AI authorship and ownership doctrine, training-data infringement (Bartz), USPTO inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions, trade-secret strategy for fine-tuned weights.
Read the disciplineCryptocurrency, Tokens and Digital Assets
AI agents holding ERC-4337 wallets, x402 micropayments, agent-issued tokens (Virtuals, ai16z), DAO LLCs as agent legal wrappers.
Read the disciplineArt, Streaming & Entertainment Law
Voice cloning, deepfake regulation (ELVIS Act, AB 2602, TAKE IT DOWN Act), music generation rights (UMG v. Suno/Udio), AI-assisted creative work copyright.
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