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Covering major verdicts and appellate decisions in the copyright arena
By Richard L. Hathaway | October 9, 2023
Recognizing that U.S. "copyright law protects only works of human creation," the court determined that the Copyright Office "acted properly in denying copyright registration for a work created absent any human involvement."
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By Edward D. Lanquist and Dominic Rota | September 26, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith sent ripples through the legal and artistic communities. Months later, legal scholars and art journalists continue to debate whether the decision opens the door for federal courts to act as "art critics." Many, however, downplay how the Supreme Court's decision impacts the ways in which copyright owners may enforce their rights against generative AI tools.
14 minute read
By Riley Brennan | September 25, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
3 minute read
By Jane Wester | September 20, 2023
"Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin and legal thriller writer John Grisham are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
4 minute read
By ALM Staff | September 20, 2023
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
2 minute read
By Riley Brennan | September 19, 2023
Counsel for the plaintiff, Gwendolyn R. Acker Wood of Acker Wood Intellectual Property Law, said it is "extremely difficult to prosecute a copyright infringement case and to prevail because the case law and the statutes are so rigid, or antiquated, and give very little recourse to people who want to protect their creation."
6 minute read
By Isha Marathe | September 19, 2023
The U.S. Copyright Office is proving to have a high bar for creativity when considering copyright authorship when artificial intelligence is involved—leading to several AI generations likely ending up in the public domain.
4 minute read
By Robert W. Clarida and Thomas Kjellberg | September 14, 2023
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently upheld a final refusal by the U.S. Copyright Office to register a visual work that was not the product of human authorship but was instead created by a computer algorithm. The sole legal issue of the case, Thaler v. Perlmutter, was whether a work autonomously generated by an AI system is copyrightable.
7 minute read
By Riley Brennan | September 12, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
2 minute read
By Mason Lawlor | September 8, 2023
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has allowed only a portion of small technology company Card Isle's copyright infringement lawsuit against Edible Arrangements to proceed past summary judgment.
5 minute read
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