Deepfakes and Digital Replicas: What Is Old and What Is New

Anna Chauvet leads Finnegan’s copyright practice and leverages significant experience in tackling cutting-edge issues relating to copyright. She has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office regarding artificial intelligence and copyright, and advised on potential legislative efforts regarding copyright and copyright-adjacent issues. Prior to rejoining Finnegan, Anna served as associate general counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office, where she advised on litigation strategy to inform the U.S. government’s views regarding novel questions of copyright law pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.  After that, she served as vice president of public policy at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), where she was integral to policy development, advocacy strategies, and reaching consensus among members and congressional offices in the areas of artificial intelligence, music licensing, and antitrust. Anna holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.

Kevin Jablonski is a registered patent attorney with a focus on patent portfolio development and patent prosecution. Kevin works with a number of clients across myriad technologies with a lean toward electrical engineering and computer science. Kevin’s practice involves additional aspects of intellectual property law including IP licensing, copyrights, and trademarks. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and admitted to practice law in Washington State. He has experience in technology areas such as semiconductor design, analog and digital circuits, LTE Wireless, computer networking, digital communication systems, , computer-related business methods, interactive software solutions, aircraft manufacturing systems, IoT systems, and computer architecture solutions.

Joshua Simmons is a well-established and nationally recognized appellate and trial court litigator, who has been lauded as an “exceptional,” “forceful,” and “creative” “brainiac” (Chambers), “Top Attorney” (Law360), and “big-picture thought leader” (WTR).  This “Intellectual Property Superhero” (CLS) has been named one of the “500 leading litigators in America” (Lawdragon) for his wins in copyright, patent, right of publicity, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition litigations, as well as contract, licensing, and domain name disputes.  As a “Power Lawyer” (THR) and “Trailblazer” (NLJ), he is sought after for complex cases and those of first impression; IP counseling; strategic portfolio management; as well as regulatory and legislative policy advice.  His eye-catching litigations involve a range of media  and technologies.  In the field of artificial intelligence, Josh is a leader both in the courtroom and outside of it.  In 2021, he won a $30 million trade secret and unfair competition verdict in a case in which the jury found that the defendant used the technology of its competitor to train its AI models.  In 2025, he won summary judgment in the first case in legal history to consider whether training an AI model was fair use.  He also frequently counsels clients and lectures on the intellectual property implications of AI.  In addition, Josh vice chairs the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s Artificial Intelligence, Data & New Emerging Technologies Committee, was a member of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property’s Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Task Force, and chaired the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee for the Second Circuit Judicial Conference’s 2022 Program Planning Committee.