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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/21/2025

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

The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part One)

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 7/25/2024

Since the release and popularization of platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E, the past few years have seen a staggering proliferation of art made using text-to-image models—familiarly known as “AI art.” Tens of millions of...more

Infringing gin part II: Court of Appeal victory for M&S against Aldi’s copycat design

A&O Shearman on 3/15/2024

Designers and brand owners will be comforted by Marks & Spencer’s Court of Appeal victory. It reinforces the importance of registering designs to protect against copycat products and, as the first Court of Appeal decision...more

Copyrightability? Think Outside the Checkbox

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/22/2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment that a customer intake form was not copyrightable because it lacked requisite originality. Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway...more

No Gold for Inaccurate Copyright Application

McDermott Will & Schulte on 8/6/2019

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court decision invalidating a copyright registration because the registration contained knowingly inaccurate information. Gold Value Int’l Textile v. Sanctuary...more

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

The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part One)

Infringing gin part II: Court of Appeal victory for M&S against Aldi’s copycat design

Copyrightability? Think Outside the Checkbox

No Gold for Inaccurate Copyright Application

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