12/19/2023 10:42:14 PM U.S. Copyright Office Rejects Another AI-Assisted Work By Michael Ling On December 11, 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office continued its chain of rejections as it denied—for the second time—Mr. Ankit...
10/30/2023 10:20:57 PM Court offers first glimpse into whether AI machine learning is copyright infringement or fair use By Jeremy Goldman As we previously blogged, multiple generative AI platforms are facing lawsuits alleging that the unauthorized use of copyright-protected...
10/19/2023 1:10:38 AM New Laws Will Require Certain Companies to Disclose Formerly Anonymous "Beneficial Owners" By Jeffrey Marks Lee Silver Jonah Brill Ian Padilla Jong +1 more... Show less A federal law taking effect on January 1st 2024, and a New York law awaiting Governor Hochul’s signature, will require certain companies...
10/12/2023 3:49:07 PM Will the Copyright Office Issue a Copyright to a Non-Human Author, After All? By Alycia S. Tulloch In a not-so-surprising turn of events, on October 11, 2023, Dr. Stephen Thaler, of Imagination Engines, Inc., filed a notice of appeal to...
9/29/2023 4:31:57 PM Do I Really Need to Worry About Those Photos in the Background? By Melissa Georges Michael Kelley v. Morning Bee, Inc. and Apple, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-8420-GHW2023 WL 6276690 (S.D.N.Y Sept. 26, 2023) If you work in the...
9/29/2023 4:27:15 PM Supreme Court to Weigh in on Damages for Copyright Infringement By Nicole Bergstrom Back in March I posted about the deepening Circuit Court split on how far back a plaintiff could look for damages in a copyright...
9/13/2023 8:59:15 PM Digital Disharmony: Ghostwriter's AI-Generated Track Mimicking Drake and the Weeknd's Vocals Ineligible for Grammy By Alycia S. Tulloch Recording Academy CEO, Harvey Mason, Jr., now says that Ghostwriter’s AI-generated song “heart on my sleeve,” is not eligible for a...
9/8/2023 4:47:16 PM Copyright Office Seeks Public Input on AI-Related Copyright Matters By Alycia S. Tulloch The Copyright Office has officially issued a request for comments on issues relating to artificial intelligence and copyright. This...
8/31/2023 4:22:22 PM Second Circuit Rejects Claim That Obscuring Murals Violates VARA By Edward H. Rosenthal In this post from March 2022, I wrote about a case pending in the the Second Circuit that raised the question whether an institution's...
8/30/2023 10:52:02 PM Can Trump Sue Over The Use Of His Mug Shot On Merchandise? By Edward H. Rosenthal Donald Trump claims he never heard the term "mug shots" before his arraignment last week in Atlanta. He says that "they didn't teach me...
8/19/2023 11:37:01 AM Court Confirms Artificial Intelligence Tools Cannot Register Copyright By Alycia S. Tulloch After the years-long saga surrounding whether a two-dimensional piece of artwork created by Dr. Thaler’s Creativity Machine could be...
8/11/2023 6:54:11 PM Lawsuit Against Dua Lipa Continues as Plaintiff Alleges “Just Enough” Facts By Khasim Lockhart Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” lawsuit continues. Introduction: On March 4, 2022, Larball Publishing Company, Inc. and Sandy Linzer Productions,...
7/17/2023 1:20:08 PM The Supreme Court Limits the Extraterritorial Reach of the Lanham Act, Overturning a $96 M Award from the Lower Court By Francesca Campione On Thursday, June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court delivered a decision in the case Abitron Austria GmbH et al. v. Hetronic...
7/15/2023 9:05:34 PM It's a Barbie World, Burberry Wants In By Molly Rothschild Barbie fever is everywhere. Even at the TTAB. Mattel, Inc., the maker of the famous Barbie toys, brought an opposition in the TTAB...
7/12/2023 7:17:02 PM You're Invited: Frankfurt Kurnit and Women of the Vine & Spirits are Hosting an AI Event By Kimberly Maynard Frankfurt Kurnit is proud to host a Women of the Vine & Spirits Regional Event on Thursday, July 20th, beginning at 4PM ET, at our New...
7/12/2023 3:42:54 PM 3 Developments in the Nation’s Rise in Book Bans By Molly Rothschild We blogged earlier this year about the top banned books of 2022. As we predicted, the spike in book bans across the country—and lawsuits...