27 Jun, 2024 Time to Face the Music? Major Record Labels Sue AI Companies over Sound Recordings Allegedly Used in Training Data By Zach Lewis Last year, when a “fake Drake” song created using artificial intelligence made major headlines, we questioned whether generative AI would...
13 May, 2024 BLOCKBUSTER RULING: Federal Court Holds That Copyright Act Preempts X's Web Scraping Claims By Jeremy Goldman In a blockbuster ruling that is bound to have far-reaching implications, including in the swarm of copyright infringement cases brought...
27 Mar, 2024 Tennessee's New ELVIS Act Governs Use of Persona and AI By Dorian Thomas Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, affectionally known as the “ELVIS Act,”...
06 Dec, 2023 Plaintiffs' Argument that Meta's Large Language Model is an Infringing Derivative Work Makes Judge's Head Explode 🤯 By Brian Murphy Today I report on another opinion out of the Central District of California that addresses whether generative AI tools infringe upon the...
13 Nov, 2023 The Generative AI Journey Continues By Brian Murphy When it comes to tech powered by generative AI, we are on the verge of a Cambrian Explosion, a period during which we can expect an...
30 Oct, 2023 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...
12 Oct, 2023 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...
15 Mar, 2023 BREAKING NEWS: AI-Assisted Works Can Be Protected by Copyright By Craig Whitney Contrary to certain perceived notions that all AI-generated works were not copyrightable, the U.S. Copyright Office has issued a policy...
01 Mar, 2023 The Dawn of a New Era: U.S. Copyright Office Registers Comic Book Featuring AI-Generated Images By Zach Lewis The current boom in artificial intelligence (AI), including programs like DALL-E and ChatGPT, has sparked widespread conversation and...
27 Feb, 2023 Thanos Prevails (For Now) In VFX Lawsuit Against Disney By Amanda Barkin Last week a federal judge threw out for the second time a visual effects software creator’s copyright claim against Disney for using its...
18 Jan, 2023 Do AI generators infringe? Three new lawsuits consider this mega question. By Jeremy Goldman We’re witnessing a massive revolution in artificial intelligence. Tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Copilot...