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The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next
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The Briefing: Turkey, Trademarks, Copyright, and Cranberry Sauce – IP and Recipes
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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Copyright Office Goes After Registration Issued to AI-Created Graphic Novel
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing an appeal by computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who argues AIgenerated works should qualify for copyright protection, contrary to the U.S. Copyright Office’s stance that only human-authored...more
Clover, SC — Shumaker has achieved a federal victory for artistic integrity, with a judge awarding a Clover, S.C. artist $158,400, including maximum Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) damages, in a case reaffirming the power of...more
2025 marked a pivotal shift in the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology by intellectual property (IP) practitioners, driven by new regulatory guidance, landmark decisions, and the release of...more
The video game industry is being transformed by the integration of generative AI into creative workflows. AI-generated characters, environments, and other visual assets are becoming increasingly common, offering new...more
On the third episode of "The Tack Room," Partner Kayla Pragid speaks with senior counsel Terry Middlebrook and nationally recognized equine and sports portrait artist Kyle Lucks about the meeting point between creativity and...more
A collision is on the horizon. The collision is between a strict interpretation of the human authorship requirement under U.S. copyright law, and the ascendence of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) as an essential...more
If you create or use architectural plans, understanding how copyright law works is critical. Home-plans are reused far more often than many assume. Builders may reuse design drawings without approval. Homeowners may hand...more
When Dr. Stephen Thaler asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the human authorship requirement for copyright protection last month, many observers dismissed the effort. Thaler’s claim—that his generative AI system should...more
In August 2025, a pair of California parents filed suit in California state court against OpenAI (Raine v. OpenAI, Inc.) after the death of their teenage son, alleging that the company’s generative-language model played a...more
Patentees face many challenges in trying to prove literal infringement, particularly when dealing with competitors who make trivial modifications or superficial changes to the patented invention. In such situations, the...more
The copyright termination right is one of the most important protections congress created for authors. It providers creators a “second bite of the apple,” a rare opportunity to reclaim ownership of their copyrights 35 years...more
Artificial intelligence is changing the creative world faster than the law can keep up. Artists, designers, and meme creators are now using AI tools to brainstorm, illustrate, and even finish parts of their work. But the...more
Theft of physical artworks and jewels is a vivid reminder that while creative value can be timeless, its embodiments are not. That contrast frames a core truth about intellectual property (“IP”): its relative permanence rests...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the creative landscape. With a simple prompt, AI has the power to elevate amateur sketches and napkin doodles into brand-worthy logos, proprietary code, novel innovations, and creative...more
On October 9, 2025, Dr. Stephen Thaler and team submitted a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking “[w]hether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a...more
Reinforced Human Authorship: Italy's new AI law amends Article 1 of the Italian Copyright Law (ICL) to clarify that copyright applies to AI-assisted works only if there is a substantial human intellectual contribution. This...more
The copyright office can copyright register and protect 'creative works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression.' This can include all sorts of creating things like lyrics for a song, a screenplay for a movie,...more
If you are crafting a book, screenplay, film, or any other creative work, copyright law can be both a shield and a tool for protecting your ideas. Imagine spending years finalizing a creative work only to discover another has...more
On 6 August 2025, the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) ordered that Projector Films Pty Ltd and director David Ngo (the Respondents) be stopped from promoting, causing to promote or authorising the Melbourne...more
In a July IP Hot Topic, we wrote about a pivotal summary judgment ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic that added another data point in the newly forming fair use landscape for copyright actions against GenAI companies. In that case,...more
Many of us remember the case of Naruto, a crested macaque who, perhaps accidentally, took a selfie using a camera placed in the field by a wildlife photographer. If we were interested in copyright law, this case naturally...more
Filing for a copyright application doesn’t have to be an overly complex chore. You just need the right tools for the job. In this fun and informative episode, IP Goes Pop! podcast hosts Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue...more
Who owns the rights when you co-create something? It’s not always as simple as you think. In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. explain copyright ownership in creative collaborations—and...more
When a key engineer leaves for a competitor, they can take more than just experience, they may walk away with years of intellectual property hidden in code reviews, issue tickets, and chat threads. As ideas now flow across...more
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