Over the last several months, the boards of a number of tech companies have been hit with “follow on” shareholder derivative lawsuits, after the companies were first sued in underlying intellectual property suits. The derivative lawsuits allege that the companies’ boards knowingly allowed their companies to use copyrighted materials to train their AI models, resulting in the underlying IP liability litigation, as well as potential IP-related liability. In the following guest post, Nathaniel French and Mason Dressler take a detailed look at the latest of these lawsuits, filed against Apple’s board. Nate is a partner and Mason is an associate at the Kennedys law firm. Our thanks to Nate and Mason for allowing us to publish their article on this site.

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John Reed Stark

Many of us have been following the continuing battle between Apple and the U.S. government on whether the government can required the company to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, with a combination of confusion and concern. In the following guest post, John Reed Stark, President of John Reed Stark Consulting and former Chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, sorts out the issues involved in the battle between Apple and the government, in light of all the circumstances, including the February 29, 2016 opinion by Eastern District of New York Judge James Orenstein in the separate Apple iPhone unlocking case. A version of this article originally appeared on CybersecurityDocket.com. I would like to thank John for his willingness to publish his article on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is John’s guest post.
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