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Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Use of Copyrighted Works for AI Training Purposes is Exceedingly, Spectacularly, and Quintessentially Transformative

On June 23, 2025, the Northern District of California federal district court issued the first substantive district court decision regarding the intersection of copyright law and generative artificial intelligence. The case...more

Snell & Wilmer

Second Circuit Holds Musical Works Registered Under the Copyright Act of 1909 Are Limited to the Deposit Copy

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The Second Circuit recently decided Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, considering whether Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” infringed the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

It’s a Taking: Copyright Deposit Requirement Violates Fifth Amendment

Addressing the issue for the first time, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the Copyright Act of 1976’s requirement to deposit two copies of a work with the Library of Congress within three months...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

D.C. Federal District Court Holds Work Created Entirely by an AI System Cannot Be Copyrighted

On August 18, 2023, in Thaler v. Perlmutter, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the U.S. Copyright Office's motion for summary judgment, affirming the Copyright Office's...more

Weintraub Tobin

The De Minimis Concept in Copyright Cases – The Ninth Circuit Says What it is and What it Isn’t

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In a recent case, Bell v. Wilmott Storage Services, LLC, decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. In essence, the Ninth Circuit...more

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