The Briefing: Authors Get Mixed Results with Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit
The Briefing: Authors Get Mixed Results with Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit (Podcast)
Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - DMCA Takedowns – Benefits to Internet Service Providers
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - DMCA Takedowns – Benefits to Content Owner
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?
Instapundit: America's IP Laws Need to be "Pruned Back"
Copyright Safe Harbors: Establishing Protection Against Infringement Claims
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a case involving a deceased religious leader who owned the copyrights to works reflecting his teachings. The Court found that the copyrighted...more
Keith Rhinehart started the Aquarian Foundation church in 1955, with a mission to study “Modern Spiritualism, Christianity, Eastern and Metaphysical Thought.” Bruce Lowndes joined the church in the 1970s and grew close with...more
Can you protect a personal “aesthetic” or “vibe?” Social media influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford believes so, as she recently sued fellow social media influencer Alyssa Sheil in Texas Federal Court, in what is now known as the...more
Suppose you have uncovered a copyrighted work from another that contains copyright management information such as a copyright notice. However, you want to remove or alter this copyright management information. Should you...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision, granting Vimeo qualified protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor provision. Capitol Records, LLC v. Vimeo,...more
In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to...more
Online shopping has become increasingly popular in recent years. E-commerce sales surpassed $6.5 trillion in 2023 and are expected to total over $8.1 trillion by 2026. Convenience of product variety and online competition...more
Viral DRM is a content creator specializing in weather videos. Their content is attractive to many people who love to watch storm and weather videos. Recently, Viral DRM has been on a rampage filing lawsuits in California...more
Court Largely Grants Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss in AI Training Data Case - On Monday, a district court largely granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss in Andersen et al. v. Stability AI et al., one of a series of...more
We have already seen one MASS SOFTWARE PIRACY case filed this year by Siemens, and now on the heels of that lawsuit (also filed in Texas) there is another lawsuit filed by Ansys, Inc. filed by the Law Offices of John F. Lumen...more
As policyholders look back at the insurance coverage landscape of 2013, a major take away point is that the courts continue to debunk the myth that there is no coverage for intellectual property claims under the advertising...more