On May 17, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 205), making the state the first to enact a comprehensive legislative framework to regulate artificial intelligence (AI)...more
The original frontman of The Guess Who, Burton Cummings, terminated his public performance license agreements in the hope of preventing what he calls a The Guess Who “cover band” from performing the works he penned for the...more
5/2/2024
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False Advertising ,
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Misrepresentation ,
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Trademark Registration ,
Trademarks ,
Unfair Competition
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a federal district court's determination that Netflix made fair use of the plaintiff's video in the 2020 Netflix show “Tiger King,” citing last year’s US...more
Proposed bills at the federal and state level were announced January 10, both intended to protect recording artists and the music industry from unauthorized “soundalike” vocals created using artificial intelligence (AI)...more
On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia held that the US Copyright Office did not abuse its discretion in determining that works generated entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) systems are...more
In an early test of a potential landmark lawsuit involving generative AI coding tools, a claim for breach of open-source licenses partially survived the defendants’ motion to dismiss. The case joins a recent trend of...more
6/16/2023
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California ,
Coding ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Data Breach ,
Infringement ,
Licenses ,
Machine Learning ,
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The Copyright Office indicated that material created using AI may be copyrightable if a human author sufficiently controls the creative process.
Less than a month after denying copyright protection to AI-generated...more