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Covering major verdicts and appellate decisions in the copyright arena
By Thomas Kjellberg and Robert W. Clarida | July 24, 2023
A discussion of 'Finch v. Casey' concerning 99 songs co-written by Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey—aka KC—while they were members of KC & The Sunshine Band in the 1970s. The case is "one of only a handful of cases touching on the interplay between the Copyright Act's statute of limitations, and its termination-of-transfer provisions."
9 minute read
By Avalon Zoppo | July 17, 2023
The appellate court panel will not have "the final word" on social media embedding, an intellectual property professor says.
4 minute read
By Jonathan Bick | July 11, 2023
The primary legal difficulty associated with AI training is the acquisition and use of training data without the consent of the owner of said training data.
6 minute read
By Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme and Nicholas Saady | July 11, 2023
Despite the uncertainty raised by the recent SCOTUS decision in Abitron v. Hetronic International, it sends a clear message to rights owners (whether they be businesses, brands or individuals): obtain and enforce your trademark rights on a global basis because the Lanham Act does not "rule the world."
8 minute read
By Riley Brennan | July 10, 2023
Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, novelist Richard Kadrey, and horror writer Christopher Golden filed the class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against OpenAI and Meta Platforms for direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, violations of 17 U.S.C. Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unjust enrichment, violations of the California and common law unfair competition laws, and negligence.
5 minute read
By Matthew Romano | July 5, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently upheld a district court's decision, ruling that the prevailing defendants, Hasbro and Klamer, were not entitled to attorney fees in a copyright lawsuit from Markham Concepts regarding "The Game of Life."
4 minute read
By Allison Dunn | July 3, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
4 minute read
By Mary S. Mathew and Aleksandra Sitnick | June 30, 2023
The rise of AI-generated art raises various legal challenges regarding intellectual property, particularly about copyright in such works, while carrying trademark implications, according to Dentons' Mary S. Mathew and Aleksandra Sitnick.
6 minute read
By Allison Dunn | June 29, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
3 minute read
By Stan Soocher | June 29, 2023
The lion's share of attention to copyright-infringement claims against Ed Sheeran over his 2016 Grammy-winning Song of the Year "Thinking Out Loud" recently focused on the trial in New York federal court. But in September 2022, a related infringement suit over the same songs' matching chord progression and harmonic rhythm was allowed to proceed.
5 minute read
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