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Covering major verdicts and appellate decisions in the copyright arena
By Jimmy Hoover | May 18, 2023
Decision spurs unusually sharp back-and-forth between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the fair-use doctrine.
5 minute read
By Stephen M. Kramarsky and John Millson | May 15, 2023
Over the past few months, AI voice tools have been more widely released, and they work. It is trivial to use them to create a track that sounds, to the casual listener, like it was recorded by the famous artist of your choosing, and the micro-genre of AI-generated "covers" of existing songs by anomalous artists (or other public figures, like President Biden) has exploded on TikTok. So what legal recourse, if any, do these artists have?
11 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | May 12, 2023
"We see no reason to disagree with the Restatement or our sister circuits in this regard, at least with respect to the broad outlines of the alternative-determinations doctrine as the Restatement describes it," stated Chief Judge David J. Barron. "Indeed, as the Restatement and our sister circuits recognize, there are good reasons for applying the doctrine, at least in some circumstances."
6 minute read
By ALM Staff | May 12, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read
By Ross Todd | May 11, 2023
Ilene Farkas, Donald Zakarin and their team did a lot to ease the nerves of modern music makers last week when they convinced Manhattan jurors that Sheeran's Grammy-winning song "Thinking Out Loud" did not copy "Let's Get It On," the Marvin Gaye hit written by Ed Townsend.
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By Isha Marathe | May 2, 2023
A trio of AI art generators—Stability AI, Deviant Art and Midjourney—are looking to dismiss a class action complaint against them alleging copyright infringement. IP attorneys weigh in on the central arguments of the case and the impact it might have on this evolving issue.
6 minute read
By Charles Toutant | April 30, 2023
"I think there are folks out there, given how the internet is, who probably say, 'Hey, that's a cool picture.' I don't know if most people know they are violating the law," plaintiffs lawyer Jonathan O'Boyle said.
4 minute read
By Andrew Denney | Ryland West | April 27, 2023
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is on trial for a copyright lawsuit in which he is accused of ripping off R&B legend Marvin Gaye's hit "Let's Get It On" to make his own chart-topping "Thinking Out Loud."
2 minute read
By Charles Toutant | April 26, 2023
"I think there are folks out there, given how the internet is, who probably say, 'Hey, that's a cool picture.' I don't know if most people know they are violating the law," plaintiffs lawyer Jonathan O'Boyle said.
4 minute read
By Amanda O'Brien | April 17, 2023
Local firms are preparing for an approaching wave of regulation and scrutiny by both federal and state governments. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) are under the spotlight.
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