Is My Guitar Pedal a Klone or a Counterfeit? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
(Podcast) The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next
The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Cease and Desist Letters: Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Right Way
PODCAST: PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Cease and Desist Letters: Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Right Way
The Briefing: Anthropic, Copyright, and the Fair Use Divide
Will I Get Sued if I Create Another Hospital Drama? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
The Briefing: The Supreme Court Dodges the Discovery Rule Question—What That Means for Copyright Enforcement
(Podcast) The Briefing: Who Owns WallStreetBets? Trademark Use in Commerce and the Reddit Battle
The Briefing: Who Owns WallStreetBets? Trademark Use in Commerce and the Reddit Battle
(Podcast) The Briefing: Sinking the Rogers Test? What Pepperdine’s Lawsuit Could Mean for Hollywood
The Briefing: Sinking the Rogers Test? What Pepperdine’s Lawsuit Could Mean for Hollywood
(Podcast) The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim
The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim
Unexpected Paths to IP Law with Dan Young and Colin White
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(Podcast) The Briefing: Who Owns Jack Nicklaus? Lessons for The Creator Economy From a Brand Battle
The Briefing: Who Owns Jack Nicklaus? Lessons for The Creator Economy From a Brand Battle
(Podcast) The Briefing: Trademark Smoked: The Fall of General Cigar’s COHIBA Registration
The Briefing: Trademark Smoked: The Fall of General Cigar’s COHIBA Registration
A class action copyright infringement lawsuit brought by U.S. authors against the AI company Anthropic has reached settlement, avoiding a trial set to begin in December. The class of plaintiff-authors alleged in the suit that...more
The latest development in U.S. copyright law is that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) company Anthropic has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors and publishers for a record $1.5...more
Anthropic, a leading developer of artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs), has reached a settlement in a closely watched dispute with a class of authors and publishers who alleged copyright infringement arising...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following. • The New York Times reports that AI company Anthropic will settle a copyright infringement...more
We have passed the midpoint of 2025, and the landscape of intellectual property law continues to evolve at a rapid pace, shaped by emerging technologies, and shifting judicial interpretations. From pivotal Supreme Court...more
Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs[1]...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now part of daily life, powering customer service chatbots, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, automated email responses, and personalized shopping recommendations. But as these systems...more
As lawsuits over artificial intelligence and copyrights continue to unfold, two recent federal court decisions from the Northern District of California provide early insight—conflicting at times—into how judges will begin to...more
In a July IP Hot Topic, we wrote about a pivotal summary judgment ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic that added another data point in the newly forming fair use landscape for copyright actions against GenAI companies. In that case,...more
Robin Hood, the legendary antihero, is beloved for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. But what if he stole from the rich and then gave to his own bank account, with the explicit intent of writing checks to the...more
Summary judgment was recently granted for defendants based on fair use in two copyright infringement actions challenging the training of large language models (LLMs), one against Meta relating to its Llama LLMs, and the other...more
It is undeniable that artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere and having unprecedented rapid effects on business and society. The law, however, evolves at a slower pace and it takes key decisions by courts and government...more
Voice actors received a rare, if incomplete, victory against alleged AI infringers in a recent opinion from an SDNY judge in Lehrman v. Lovo, Inc. Voice actors Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage filed an action against AI...more
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the legislature and the courts relating to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Since the founding of our nation, there has been ongoing debate about whether legal matters...more
The evolution of generative artificial intelligence has prompted courts in two highly-publicized recent federal district court decisions to apply copyright law’s doctrine of fair use to the “training” and output of generative...more
In a major win for Meta, a federal court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by prominent authors who claimed their books were illegally used to train the company’s Llama models. But the ruling doesn’t give AI companies a...more
2025 Summer Associate Wade Marshall contributed to this article. Recently, two Northern District of California decisions revealed fault lines in the forming fair use terrain for GenAI copyright infringement actions. Both...more
Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to...more
A federal judge has ruled that training Claude AI on copyrighted books—even without a license—was transformative and protected under fair use. But storing millions of pirated books in a permanent internal library? That...more
Recently, major technology companies, Anthropic and Meta each secured landmark victories in separate copyright lawsuits. The companies had been sued by authors and their publishers, regarding claims that these companies’ AI...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
In recent days, two federal judges in the Northern District of California issued significant decisions covering the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law. Specifically, in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC and...more
District court holds that Anthropic’s use of books to train its Claude large language models and its use of purchased copies of books to create digital permanent library constitute fair use, but its use of pirated books to...more
Since generative AI began its rapid ascent in 2022, the creative, tech and legal industries have grappled with a fundamental question: does using copyrighted works to train AI models violate the rights of creators, or does it...more