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New book from USA Top IP & AI attorney Peter Nieves
AI never came with a warning label. So I wrote one.
AI: Side Effects May Include is the practical guide for business owners, professionals, and creators who want the upside of AI without leaking confidential information, losing ownership of their work, being exposed to legal actions, or putting client trust at risk.
28 yrs
Practicing IP law
15 yrs
Working on AI-related matters
50,000+
People trained on AI risk
Read before use
Every powerful tool has fine print. AI's just wasn't printed.
AI can help you write, design, research, code, market, and automate faster than ever. It can also quietly create problems with confidentiality, ownership, accuracy, and client trust.
This book translates those risks into plain English, then hands you the safeguards to keep using AI with confidence.
AI Facts
Active ingredient Generative & Agentic AI
Uses Writing, design, research, code, marketing, automation
Side effects may include:
01 - Confidential information uploaded where it should not go
02 - Not owning what you created
03 - Copyright and trademark claims
04 - Confident, convincing answers that are wrong
05 - Vendors using AI on your work without telling you
06 - A team using AI with no policy at all
07 - Loss of client trust
Directions: Read this book before your next prompt.
What's inside
15 Chapters of AI-Insight That Nobody Is Talking About
CH01 to 04
Before you upload
Why Casual AI Use Can Put Your Business at Risk
How to Decide What You Can Safely Upload to AI
Choosing AI Tools That Protect Your Information
Why Uploading Someone Else's Content to AI Can Create Legal Risk
CH05 to 08
Before you publish
How to Spot Legal Risk in AI Outputs
How to Clear AI Outputs Before You Publish, Sell, or Deliver Them
Choosing AI Content Sources That Reduce Copyright Risk
AI-Rendered Results Can Sound Confident and Convincing, While Being Wrong
CH09 to 12
Before you
claim it
AI-Created or AI-Enhanced? Why the Difference Matters for Ownership
How Human Creativity Can Turn AI-Assisted Content Into Protectable Work
Prompts, Code, Apps, and Ownership
How to Protect Your Content From AI Scraping
CH13 to 15
Before it happens
The AI Policy Every Business Needs
Protecting Your Business With AI Contract Terms, Vendor Rules, and Insurance
Conclusion: A Safer Way to Use AI in Business
Why I wrote this book
In early 2023, I warned business owners about three AI risks.
Sensitive information being uploaded into AI tools
Lawsuits over the content used to train AI systems
Legal claims against users who rely on AI results without knowing where they came from
Those warnings began coming true quickly. This book is the warning label AI never came with, plus the practical guide to use AI with more confidence, stronger safeguards, and better judgment.
Chambers USA
Intellectual Property
Best Lawyers
Lawyer of the Year, 2021
ABF Fellow
Fewer than 1% of lawyers
He has called it before
Ahead of the internet. Now ahead of AI.
In 1998, before most people understood the legal issues behind hyperlinks, frames, and meta-tags, Peter co-authored Hyperlinks, Frames and Meta-Tags: An Intellectual Property Analysis in IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology. It became a course resource at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard's Berkman Center.
This book is for you if
You use AI, or the people around you do.
Business owners
Executives
Entrepreneurs
Professional service providers
Creators
Consultants
Agencies
Educators
Teams
Especially if your employees, contractors, vendors, or clients are already using AI on your behalf.
Meet the author
Peter Nieves, Esq.
Peter Nieves is an intellectual property attorney, educator, speaker, and AI-law advisor who helps business owners, creators, professionals, and companies protect their people, content, clients, and businesses in the age of artificial intelligence. With 28 years of experience in patent, trademark, copyright, and related technology matters, including 15 years working with AI-related inventions and legal issues, Peter brings a practical, business-minded perspective to AI use.
He is the founder of Nieves IP Law Group and creator of the AI: Dos and Don'ts Masterclass, where he teaches business owners and professionals how to benefit from AI while reducing legal, business, confidentiality, ownership, and client-trust risks.
Intellectual property attorney with 28 years of experience
Founder of Nieves IP Law Group
Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and AI law
15 years on AI-related patent and technology matters
Creator of the AI: Dos and Don'ts Masterclass
Speaker and educator who has trained over 50,000 people
Recognized by Chambers USA for Intellectual Property
Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year
New England Super Lawyer, 2013 to 2026
Managing IP Star, 2013 to 2026
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (top 1% of lawyers)
Top Patent Prosecutor, Patent Buddy / Patent Research Review
New Hampshire Union Leader 40 Under Forty
Firm named a Best Law Firm for Patent Law, 2024 and 2025
Firm clients have included Georgetown, Constant Contact, Harman Kardon, startups, and businesses from small to Fortune 500.
What industry leaders
say about Peter
“Peter is a Master of understanding Intellectual Property, and understands the future! He is all-in on AI and not just as a practitioner of law, but as an Entrepreneur himself!”
Billy Gene
Agency owner, marketing teacher, podcast host
“Peter's skillset in protecting ideas through intellectual property combined with his commitment to training and serving others makes him a powerful resource to entrepreneurs.”
Pedro Adão
8-figure entrepreneur, speaker, trainer
"Overall, very professional. You're very believable... Without you telling me anything, I believe you have a lot of credibility. You walk with a very credible kind of swag."
Grant Cardone
Entrepreneur, author, speaker, investor
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