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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
There were several notable developments in March in the AI copyright lawsuits previously reported here. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic scored partial dismissals in their respective cases. These results show that the...more
Several industry organizations have recently published AI guidelines, including the Digital Medicine Society (DMS), in partnership with Google and the Mayo Clinic. The DMS playbook includes both a strategy guide and an ROI...more
Lingo Telecom, a Georgia-based VoIP service operator, has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for using AI-generated deepfake technology to spoof President Joe Biden’s voice in a series of robocalls. A Louisiana political...more
The AI sector continues to experience regulatory growing pains. Tech companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new AI laws, which require more transparency in their model training. Meta, in particular, had to halt its...more
In the entertainment industry, Sony Music asserted that AI companies don’t have permission to use its recording artists’ works for AI training. In response to the industry’s concerns over the use of AI, members of Congress...more
Visual artists sued Google last week, alleging that Google’s AI-powered image generator, Imagen, was trained on their copyrighted content without authorization. The proposed class action asserts claims of direct copyright...more
Upon hearing the word "transformer," thoughts of change and adaptability often come to mind, sometimes evoking images of those iconic shape-shifting robots. However, when it comes to artificial intelligence, the word...more
On December 27, 2023, the New York Times filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging massive copyright infringement. This promises to be the most high-stakes intellectual...more
...We round out our series with a summary of several developments around the world that focus on the adequacy of the various jurisdictions' laws in addressing the opportunities and risks arising from generative AI....more
On August 28, 2023, two photographers filed a petition for rehearing en banc, urging the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its recent decision in Hunley v. Instagram, which held that Instagram could not be held liable for secondary...more
The United States Supreme Court recently issued its first opinion in the realm of copyright since its 2021 decision in Google v. Oracle, this time focusing not on software and source code, but on pop art and the publishing...more
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology promising to disrupt how artwork is created, software is developed, and text is written. This disruption brings with it a host of new legal questions surrounding...more
In the cloud-based age where numerous tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Apple have launched cloud music services, many kept abreast of ongoing legal battles over online service providers’ liability for users’ music...more
Mit dem Urheberrechts-Diensteanbieter-Gesetz (UrhDaG) wird ein völlig neues Haftungsregime in Deutschland etabliert. In diesem Beitrag werfen wir nun einen näheren Blick auf die Voraussetzungen, unter denen Diensteanbieter...more
Wie ist der aktuelle Gesetzgebungsstand zum Urheberrecht? Spätestens seitdem das Bundeskabinett im Februar 2021 seinen Gesetzesentwurf zur Reform des Urheberrechts vorgestellt hat, dürfte die anstehende Reform auch...more
A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The Supreme Court’s...more
After more than a decade of litigation that included multiple trials and appeals, the Supreme Court of the United States finally put an end to the copyright infringement case Oracle brought against Google. The case was about...more
In this week's podcast of The Briefing from the IP Law Blog, attorneys Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v...more
In this week's episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith)....more
On April 5, 2021, after 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court published its decision in the much-watched Google v. Oracle dispute. The Court held that use of certain “declaring code” from the Java API in the Android...more
In a non-precedential Order issued by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—on remand from the US Supreme Court’s April 2021 decision upholding Google’s fair use defense to Oracle’s copyright infringement claim—the...more
The Court cleared Google of copyright infringement in terminating a 16-year long dispute as to whether Google’s Android mobile platform had infringed Oracle’s Java programming language’s copyright. However, the Court did not...more