10/27/2025 3:32:27 PM Santos v. Kimmel: "deceptive conduct" does not preclude fair use. By Amanda Barkin Well, President Trump commuted former Congressman George Santos's sentence just 84 days into his 87-month prison term. Now that Santos...
3/10/2025 7:09:13 PM JUDGE RAKOFF’S DECISION IN INTERCEPT MEDIA V. OPENAI COPYRIGHT CASE CREATES SDNY SPLIT By Michael Salik In a surprising split with recent Southern District of New York (SDNY) precedent, the court in Intercept Media, Inc. v. Open AI, Inc. has...
2/11/2025 11:55:47 PM BREAKING: COURT RULES THAT DEVELOPER'S USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL TO TRAIN AI IS NOT FAIR USE By Jeremy Goldman This morning, the court in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence produced one of the first major rulings to address the application of...
2/3/2025 6:44:58 PM Key Insights on Copyright and AI from the U.S. Copyright Office’s 2025 Report By Zach Lewis For years now, the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law has been the center of attention for artists, creators,...
1/29/2025 1:19:17 PM Second Circuit Clarifies When Content Moderation Risks DMCA Safe Harbor By Jeremy Goldman The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently published an important decision in Capitol Records, LLC v. Vimeo, LLC (Jan. 13,...
7/10/2024 3:15:15 PM Tracy Anderson vs. Megan Roup - Round 3 By Amanda Barkin A federal judge tossed Anderson’s copyright claim against former employee (and current competitor), Megan Roup, for alleged infringement...
6/27/2024 3:26:22 PM 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...
5/13/2024 2:14:53 PM 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...
5/9/2024 4:01:02 PM Breaking News: The Supreme Court Finds Against 3-Year Limit on Copyright Damages By Nicole Bergstrom Edward H. Rosenthal In a decision issued this morning, the Supreme Court rejected the three-year cap on damages in copyright infringement actions espoused by...
3/28/2024 8:23:46 PM Citing Warhol, 10th Circuit Reverses Tiger King Fair Use Ruling By Caren Decter Back in 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important fair use ruling in Warhol v. Goldsmith—holding that Warhol's use of Goldsmith's...
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...
10/12/2023 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...