IP & Media Law Updates

9/23/2025 4:29:22 PM

The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office

By Brian Murphy

These are extraordinary times. And this is an extraordinary case. In 2020, Shira Perlmutter was appointed Register of Copyrights by Dr....

12/19/2023 10:42:14 PM

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...

3/15/2023 7:29:00 PM

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...

6/4/2020 9:45:17 PM

By Craig Whitney Caren Decter Christina Campbell

On May 21, 2020 the Copyright Office published a long-awaited report on Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (the...