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Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Ninth Circuit Revives Copyright Suit Over Sam Smith’s “Dancing with a Stranger” and Reaffirms the Jury’s Role

On April 29, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived the copyright infringement case filed by Sound and Color, LLC against Sam Smith, Normani, and related parties (collectively, “Defendants”) concerning the hit song...more

BakerHostetler

What Thomson Reuters v. Ross Does and Doesn’t Say About Fair Use and Generative AI

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The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibas’s summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., Case 1:20-cv-00613-SB (D. Del.), has largely oscillated between predictions that the...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Interoperable or Infringing: Ninth Circuit Requires “Something More” for Rightsholders to Claim Derivative Works

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In a closely watched appeal, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently vacated a permanent injunction from the District of Nevada against software provider Rimini. Oracle Int’l Corp. v. Rimini St.,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Equitable Estoppel Defense Denies Lego Full Victory in Copyright Case

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The world-renowned Danish toy maker Lego has scored an important (albeit partial) win in its nearly 8-year-old copyright litigation against fellow toy maker Best-Lock Construction Toys. On July 25, 2019, Judge Haight of the...more

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