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Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney: Navigating AI Copyright Challenges and Fair Use Implications

ArentFox Schiff on 6/23/2025

The Walt Disney Company and Universal City Studios Productions are among the latest plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence (AI) developer....more

DC Circuit Court Rules AI Cannot be Author of Copyrighted Work, and NIST Finalizes AI Report — AI: The Washington Report

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints on 3/31/2025

On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human...more

Artificial Intelligence Presents Challenges for Intellectual Property Laws’ Focus on Human Creation

Benesch on 3/25/2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to generate content closely resembling human output present issues with respect to IP ownership. Maybe you have asked ChatGPT to create a flashy advertisement or write some code...more

Balancing Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Human Authorship a “Bedrock Requirement of Copyright”

Haug Partners LLP on 9/11/2023

Whether it is a smartphone, a fraud alert received from a financial institution, a vehicle modifying its settings based on current driving conditions, or political ads that will soon infiltrate our airwaves, artificial...more

Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 3/21/2023

In recent months, we have been saturated with media coverage involving artificial intelligence (“AI”). Almost daily there are articles about AI platforms including DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT,...more

Recent Developments and Challenges in Protecting Intellectual Property Created With Artificial Intelligence

Saul Ewing LLP on 12/1/2022

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create works of art and inventions raises interesting legal challenges to the protection of intellectual property (IP). The plain language of the Copyright Act and Patent Act present...more

Delivering Architectural Plans May Create Implied License - Hunn v. Dan Wilson Homes, Inc.

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/11/2015

Where an architectural draftsman left his design firm mid-project and later used partial plans drawn during his employment to complete the project, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the ruling that the...more

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