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,...
1/23/2025 2:48:29 PM Copyright in Motion: Ninth Circuit Recognizes Kinetic Sculptures as Eligible for Copyright Protection By Brian Murphy In a decision published last week, a panel of the Ninth Circuit held that kinetic sculptures - works that incorporate movement as a...
11/11/2024 10:10:24 PM Can You Avoid Copyright Claims By Modifying Props Used in Your Ads? By Brian Murphy In Crystal Castles, the arcade game released by Atari in 1983, the player controls Bentley Bear, a bruin tasked with collecting gems...
9/30/2024 2:50:10 PM Trump in a “River of Trouble” for Infringing Copyright in Classic Isaac Hayes Song By Brian Murphy Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...
8/16/2024 2:10:40 PM Predictably, an Oral License to Use Beat Track in Song Results in Copyright Infringement Case By Brian Murphy Plaintiff Brian White is a professional musician who writes and records beat tracks that he sometimes licenses to other artists. (We Got...
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...
5/29/2024 2:17:23 PM Tenth Circuit Refuses to Award Profits Under Copyright Act for Unauthorized Use of Photo in Ad By Brian Murphy I Dig Texas (IDT) and Creager Services (Creager) are competitors that sell attachments for skid steer loaders, a type of heavy machinery...
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...
1/23/2024 2:05:42 PM French Montana and the Scope of Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings vs. Compositions By Brian Murphy You have to tip your hi-hat to Eddie Lee Richardson, a/k/a Hotwire the Producer, a/k/a the plaintiff in this case. When he was 16 years...
12/29/2023 2:51:23 PM Mickey Mouse (Version 1.0) Enters the Public Domain in the U.S. By Brian Murphy So, it is happening. The animated short “Steamboat Willie,” which was released in 1928 and features an early version of Mickey Mouse,...
12/26/2023 7:46:04 PM Hallmark Holiday Movies and the Scènes à Faire Doctrine By Brian Murphy During the holidays, the television in my octogenarian parents' home toggles back-and-forth between Fox News (my father's choice) and the...