District court grants music rights technology company ClicknClear’s motion to dismiss false advertising claims brought by competitor, holding that statements about what music rights are needed for performing arts and...more
3/2/2026
/ Advertising ,
Business Litigation ,
Consumer Confusion ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Entertainment Industry ,
False Advertising ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Lanham Act ,
License Agreements ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Music Industry ,
Unfair Competition ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
At Loeb’s AI Summit in New York last week on Feb. 11, I had the opportunity to moderate a cross‑industry roundtable about intellectual property. The event brought together attorneys from entertainment, media, tech and...more
2/16/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Contract Terms ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Fair Use ,
Innovative Technology ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Management ,
Web Scraping
District court denies motion to dismiss copyright infringement claim against Tesla and owner Elon Musk based on their use of images from the movie Blade Runner 2049 to create an AI-generated image that was displayed at an...more
2/13/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Automotive Industry ,
Contributory Infringement ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Elon Musk ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Motor Vehicles ,
Movies ,
Tesla
Fifth Circuit affirms ruling that statutory termination of copyright grant, as well as contingent copyright renewal rights, apply worldwide and are not limited to rights in United States. In 1962, Cyril Vetter and Don Smith...more
1/19/2026
/ Appeals ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Copyright Ownership ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Heirs ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
International Jurisdiction ,
Music Industry ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
The Copyright Act
In action against OpenAI based on its use of Ziff Davis’ online publications in GPT series of large language models, district court denies motion to dismiss claims for contributory copyright infringement, for removal of...more
1/12/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Contributory Infringement ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Management Information (CMI) ,
DMCA ,
Innovative Technology ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Trademarks
In suit claiming 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick infringed 1983 magazine article about real-life fighter pilot training program that inspired original 1986 Top Gun film, Ninth Circuit affirms summary judgment in defendants’...more
1/12/2026
/ Appeals ,
Breach of Contract ,
Contract Interpretation ,
Contract Terms ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Magazines ,
Movies ,
Paramount Pictures ,
Summary Judgment
District court finds Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s use of cropped photographs of rock band Van Halen as part of exhibit about instruments used throughout rock and roll history constituted fair use, dismissing photographer’s...more
District court denies AI developer Cohere’s motion to dismiss, finding that news publishers plausibly stated claims for direct copyright infringement, including for “substitutive summaries” generated by Cohere’s AI models,...more
In copyright suit brought by music publishers against AI developer Anthropic, district court denies Anthropic’s motion to dismiss amended claims of secondary copyright infringement, finding publishers plausibly alleged that...more
10/17/2025
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Copyright Management Information (CMI) ,
DMCA ,
Induced Infringement ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
Music Publishing ,
Publishers ,
Vicarious Liability
District court dismisses rap star Drake’s suit against UMG Recordings alleging that rival Kendrick Lamar’s hit “Not Like Us” defamed him by calling him a “certified pedophile,” holding that “diss tracks” constitute...more
10/17/2025
/ Celebrities ,
Criminal Liability ,
Defamation ,
Free Speech ,
Harassment ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
Music Publishing ,
Musical Sound Recordings ,
Opinion-Based Content ,
Public Figures ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
In copyright infringement action against Showtime and producers of television series Penny Dreadful, Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal, holding that plaintiff failed to allege striking similarity between series’ characters and...more
9/22/2025
/ Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Copyright Ownership ,
Dismissals ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Online Gaming ,
Showtime ,
Television Broadcast Stations ,
Television Shows
In copyright infringement and false designation of origin action brought by owners of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, district court holds that San Francisco-based Perplexity AI Inc. is subject to personal...more
9/3/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
CPLR ,
Dow Jones ,
Forum Selection ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Lanham Act ,
License Agreements ,
Long Arm Statute ,
Newspapers ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Printed Publications ,
Publishers ,
Publishing Copyrights ,
Trademarks ,
Wall Street Journal ,
Websites
In President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Robert Woodward arising from Woodward’s publication of audio recordings of Woodward’s interviews of Trump in 2019 and 2020, district court dismisses Trump’s second...more
District court denies rapper 50 Cent’s motion to preliminarily enjoin release of horror film Skill House, holding plaintiff failed to show likelihood of success, or even serious questions, on merits of his right of publicity...more
District court denies motion to reconsider dismissal of claims that OpenAI removed copyright management information in violation of Digital Millenium Copyright Act, holding that inconsistency between dismissal order and...more
Georgia state court grants summary judgment dismissing defamation claim targeting ChatGPT output accusing radio host of embezzlement, in light of disclaimers notifying users that ChatGPT sometimes generates inaccurate...more
6/2/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Defamation ,
Embezzlement ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Gun Laws ,
Innovative Technology ,
Liability ,
Negligence ,
Radio Broadcasting ,
Second Amendment ,
Summary Judgment