Technology Sector, Copyright Litigation, Authorship

Anthropic and Meta Win Major, but Limited, AI Copyright Lawsuits

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/18/2025

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

AI vs. Authors: Two California Judges, Two Directions and More Uncertainty on Fair Use and Copyright

Polsinelli on 7/14/2025

Key Takeaways - Courts Lean Toward Fair Use for AI Training: Two California rulings suggest that using copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence (AI) may be considered fair use if outputs are transformative and do...more

Kadrey v. Meta - Fair Use as a Matter of Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 7/2/2025

Kadrey v. Meta! On the merits! A doozy of a summary judgment opinion in form and substance. "The devil is in the details," but even for non-lawyers, at least the first five pages are a must-read - there are almost no legal...more

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

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/19/2025

Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) cannot be designated as the...more

Copyright Office Solidifies Stance on the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works

Perkins Coie on 3/19/2025

Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office released part two of its artificial intelligence (AI) report addressing the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. This new report is largely consistent with the...more

AI IP Year in Review - Five Key Takeaways from the 2024 House Judiciary Hearing on AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 1/28/2025

As companies—and more recently, courts—have struggled to address the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation, legislators are embroiled in a struggle of their own. Over the past two years, the Senate and House have...more

AI IP Year in Review - The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 1/22/2025

Since platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E became popular, using text-to-image models to generate “AI art” has surged, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-generated art and human-created works. This...more

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