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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Innovating with AI: Ensuring You Own Your Inventions

When you're thinking about using AI to develop your company's technology, there are two primary areas that I like to think about. First is ownership. Currently, under U.S. law, the outputs of artificial intelligence are not...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Data Mining for AI Systems Training Permitted Under German Law

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In a landmark decision, a German district court recently decided that copying images to create a data set that can potentially be used for training generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems does not infringe German...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Pitch - October 2024

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more

International Lawyers Network

THAT’S NOT TRUE: Thoughts, Novel or Not, On Truth, Context, & Defamation

Defamation cases are hard ones in the real world. Recent US matters involving Dominion Voting,  Sara Palin, and even Cheetos show that these cases continue to interest the general public as well as legal cognoscenti....more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - November 2024

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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office asked a federal judge on Thursday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the Cleveland Browns to test the “Modell Law,” a state law designed to stop teams from leaving cities that...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Court Dismisses AI Scraping Claim, But Grants Leave to Amend

We have previously reported on the Jobiak case which raises the interesting issue of whether an AI-scraped job database is subject to copyright protection and is infringed. We were hoping that the court would make substantive...more

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Patent Poetry: What’s Happening with AI and Copyright Law

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Not surprisingly, a lot is happening at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP) law. Here’s a roundup of some recent developments in the area of copyright law and AI....more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

IP Alert: From King James to the King of Jazz: IP Issues in Tattoo Art

Copyright law protects creative works that are “fixed in any tangible medium of expression”—but it is hard to imagine that the drafters of this language envisioned that the human body would become such a popular medium of...more

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(Podcast) The Briefing: The Dark Side of Halloween – Unlicensed Costumes and the Legal Haunt

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Halloween is here, but beware! That killer costume might come with a lawsuit instead of candy. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the legal threats associated with unlicensed costumes on this spooky episode of The...more

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The Briefing: The Dark Side of Halloween – Unlicensed Costumes and the Legal Haunt

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Halloween is here, but beware! That killer costume might come with a lawsuit instead of candy. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the legal threats associated with unlicensed costumes on this spooky episode of The...more

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Final Rule on DMCA Grants Circumvention Exemptions

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On October 25, 2024, the Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden adopted a final rule granting exemptions to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provision that prohibits circumvention of technological measures that control...more

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Copyright Claims Board Stats

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The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) was established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act passed by Congress on December 27, 2020 and began accepting claims in June 2022. It is a voluntary and virtual...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

What is a Deepfake and How Might it Impact Your Business?

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its various synthetic media outputs, deepfakes are just one of many new risks to businesses. Deepfakes pose considerable threats to companies, potentially damaging...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - October 2024 #5

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A federal judge late Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to lock down UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus at noon Thursday until the university comes up with a proposal for...more

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Patent Poetry: 2 Live Crew Heirs Win Right to Reclaim Music

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Luther Campbell, the former leader of 2 Live Crew, and the heirs of two other group members have won a legal battle over the rights to the group’s music. Lil’ Joe Records, owned by Joseph Weinberger, bought the group’s...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – Guardrails for AI use across government operations, Perplexity lawsuit, thousands of creative professionals sign...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Artists’ Copyright Infringement Suit Against AI Companies Can Proceed

In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2025

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Intensifying international crises, increasing regulatory burdens, and uncertain macroeconomic conditions have led to an era of caution for manufacturers, but hidden among those challenges are exciting opportunities for...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Testing the Limits of Copyright Protection for A.I.-Generated Art - Colorado Artist Challenges Registration Refusal in Court

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Two years ago, the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition sparked controversy after awarding a blue ribbon to a work generated in part by A.I. Jason Allen, the artist responsible for the work, said at the time, “I won,...more

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If Provider Knew Product Would Be Used to Infringe, It Is a Contributor

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In a case brought by a group of record labels against an internet service provider (ISP) for contributory copyright infringement of more than 1,400 songs, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the provider,...more

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Jurisdiction “Found”: Navigating E-Commerce Boundaries in Copyright Disputes

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In a copyright case, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit determined that the district court had jurisdiction over two Chinese companies that consented to jurisdiction in any judicial district in which a third-party...more

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Is cheating copyright infringement? CJEU clarifies specific protection of computer programs

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In its recent judgment in Sony Interactive Entertainment v. Datel, the CJEU ruled on the specific copyright protection of computer programs under Directive 2009/24/EC (Case C‑159/23). The CJEU found that while “cheating...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

First Significant EU Decision Concerning Data Mining and Dataset Creation to Train Artificial Intelligence

A court in Hamburg, Germany, has decided a copyright infringement case in a way that sheds light on how European courts may apply the text and data mining (TDM) exemption to AI model developers. The exemption is contained in...more

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Five Intellectual Property Considerations for Talent Partnerships

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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the intersection of technology and entertainment raises new challenges and opportunities in the realm of talent partnerships. With generative artificial intelligence’s growing...more

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To Recuse or Not to Recuse? That is the Question Potentially Facing Supreme Court Justices on Book Publisher Copyright Case

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What happens if two-thirds of the U.S. Supreme Court justices have a conflict of interest in a case presented before the Court? The speculative possibilities are abundant in such a situation—do all of the affected Justices...more

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