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Copyright for AI-Generated Visual Content in Video Games

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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

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast - Art, Law and the Athlete: Protecting Equine Imagery in the Studio and Market

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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

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Pursuing Copyright Clarity amidst the Gen AI Creativity Revolution

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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

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Copyright Protection for Architectural Plans: What You Need to Know

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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

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Dr. Thaler Is Right, in Part

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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

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5 Steps to Get Your AI-Assisted Work Registered

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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

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How to copyright register a website

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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

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Understanding Copyright Protection for Creative Writers: What You Need to Know

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

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IP Goes Pop! S6 Ep #3 The (Copy)Right Tool for the Job- The Copyright Tool Kit

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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

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Trump v. Woodward

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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

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South Korean Copyright Office Issues AI Guidance

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In June 2025, South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Copyright Commission released two guides related to the intersection of artificial intelligence ("AI") and copyright law. These guides, the...more

Venable LLP

Development Contract Considerations for AI-Generated Works and Copyright Ownership

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In a recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the court refused to register a work where its sole author was an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. This holding is in line with the Copyright Office’s...more

IR Global

Copyright Protection Explained

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What Is Copyright Protection? When Should A Copyright Be Filed? What is copyright? Copyright is a United States Constitutional right that provides protection to works of original authorship...more

DLA Piper

Copyrightability of genAI Outputs in the US: Key Developments

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Key takeaways from the US Copyright Office’s Copyrightability Report and the DC Circuit’s March 2025 Thaler decision - On January 29, 2025, the US Copyright Office issued Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2:...more

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D.C. Circuit Denies Copyright to AI Artwork - What Humans Have and Artificial Intelligence Does Not

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Can a non-human machine be an author under the Copyright Act of 1976? In a March 18, 2025 precedential opinion, a D.C. Circuit panel affirmed prior determinations from the D.C. District Court and the Copyright Office that an...more

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Robots Are Coming—But They Still Can’t Register Copyright

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Key Takeaways - Non-human machines cannot be authors under the Copyright Act of 1976....more

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DC Circuit Holds That AI Cannot Be an Author Under Copyright Law

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the Copyright Office’s position that artificial intelligence cannot be an author under the Copyright Act....more

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Another Chinese Court Finds that AI-Generated Images Can Be Protected by Copyright: The Changshu People’s Court and the ‘Half...

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On 7 March 2025, the Changshu People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) announced that it had recently concluded a case on the topical issue of whether AI-generated works can be protected by copyright. In the case, a...more

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Appellate Court Affirms Human Authorship Requirement for Copyrighting AI-Generated Works

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a district court ruling that human authorship is a bedrock requirement to register a copyright, and that an artificial intelligence system cannot be deemed the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Court Rules AI Can’t Author a Copyrighted Work

On March 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in the Thaler v. Perlmutter case, which confirmed the refusal of copyright registration for a work created entirely by an artificial...more

Perkins Coie

Copyright Office Solidifies Stance on the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office released part two of its artificial intelligence (AI) report addressing the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. This new report is largely consistent with the...more

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When the Machine Becomes the Creator: Artificial Intelligence v. the Human Creator Requirements of U.S. Copyright Law

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On March 18, 2025 the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter et al., confirming that U.S. law requires human authorship. Specifically, the question presented to the Court was “can a...more

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Navigating the Intersection of AI and Copyright: Key Insights From the US Copyright Office’s Latest Report

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The US Copyright Office recently released Part 2 of its Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Report, addressing the copyrightability of outputs generated from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This report is the second...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Who Owns Creativity? — AI in Entertainment

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the film and television industry in content creation raises many legal and business issues. One key issue is the ownership of the works generated using AI and the ability to register...more

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Client Alert: Can Works Made with Generative AI be Copyrighted?

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In response to the increased use of sophisticated artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies capable of producing expressive material, the U.S. Copyright Office (“CO”) published a two-part series on the copyrightability of...more

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