Fighting knock-offs in the fashion industry is notoriously difficult. Copyright, trademark, and trade dress laws offer some protection for branding and marketing materials used to sell fashion products, as well as for...more
The recent ruling in a lawsuit against Anthropic highlights a growing complexity in how courts are approaching fair use in the context of AI training. Judge William Alsup held that developing Anthropic’s Claude model was...more
7/18/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Data Protection ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
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Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Management ,
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Transformative Use
After previously dismissing infringement claims on the ground that using copyrighted works to train a large language model qualified as fair use, a federal judge in California has now also dismissed a key Digital Millennium...more
A lawsuit between the Chicago Cubs and the owner of a rooftop venue near Wrigley Field raises important questions about the scope of intellectual property rights and the extent to which a property owner can profit from the...more
A recent lawsuit filed by photographer Jackson Lee against MediaNews Group illustrates the important distinction between copyright and the right of publicity. Lee claims the publisher used his photos of Beyoncé, Jennifer...more
A recent lawsuit against actor and comedian Marlon Wayans underscores the practical value created by securing a copyright registration early and the associated risk doing so creates for a third-party user....more
A political shake-up at the U.S. Copyright Office has triggered operational chaos and legal uncertainty, leaving creators and copyright lawyers questioning the validity of recent registrations. Following the Trump...more
6/5/2025
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Copyright ,
Copyright Litigation ,
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Copyright Registration ,
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Trump Administration
A day before the firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, the third installment of the office's series of reports on copyright issues and AI was released. The 113-page document covers a lot of ground, not the least of...more
In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge Bilas, the District of Delaware judge in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH and West...more