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White Stripes File Copyright Suit Against Trump for Campaign's Use of Music

The suit from Jack White and Meg White contends the Trump campaign misappropriated the signature riff from their song "Seven Nation Army" in a video posted to social media.
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Law.com

Federal Judge Greenlights Birkenstock's Claims Against 'Knock-Off' White Mountain Sandals, Clogs

While the court has found Birkenstock has met its burden from the pleading standpoint in the early stages of the litigation, the defendants say Birkenstock won't be able to prove its case on the merits, said White Mountain's New York-based attorney Edmund J. Ferdinand III of Meister Seelig & Fein.
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2nd Circuit Appeals Court Upholds Copyright Ruling Against Internet Archive 

The court rejected an appeal from the nonprofit digital library and owner of the Wayback Machine, stemming from a lawsuit brought by Hatchett, Penguin Random House, Wiley and HarperCollins over Internet Archive's practice of scanning and lending digital books. 
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Law.com

Hold On, I'm Suing: Artists' Protests Over the Trump Campaign's Use of Their Music

When artists do take action over political-campaign usage, it's usually in the form of a cease-and-desist letter sent to a candidate's representatives. In some instances, artists file lawsuits, but to date there's been just a smattering of notable court decisions. This article provides a refresher on these rulings as well as a look at the recent lawsuit by the estate of Isaac Hayes over the Trump campaign's use of the classic soul song "Hold On, I'm Coming."
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Appeals Court Upholds Ruling That an Online Archive's Book Sharing Violated Copyright Law

In a statement Wednesday, the president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, Maria Pallante, called the decision a victory for the publishing community.
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Georgia Court Tells Trump Campaign to Stop Using 'Hold On, I'm Coming'

While many artists have publicly complained about use of their songs by political campaigns, the case filed by the estate of Isaac Hayes is one of the few to reach a courtroom.
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Law.com

Womble Bond Dickinson, McCarter & English Net a Quarter of Requested $4.78M Fees Following $14.7M False Advertising Win

The jury's split decision—finding for defendants as to trademark and fair use, for plaintiff as to UDTPA and the Lanham Act, and for one defendant but against another as to copyright—is a strong indicator that plaintiff's claims were not as 'inextricably interwoven' as they may seem," wrote U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr.
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California Company Tushbaby Sues Sellers of Imitation Infant Carriers

Tushbaby's viral popularity led its inventor to land a "Shark Tank" appearance, but now it's fending off imitators it says are originating in China.
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'Show Us the License': Hayes Estate Says Trump Illegally Playing Soul Classic 'Hold On, I'm Comin'' at Rallies

Plaintiffs in the Georgia suit contend that the former president has illegally used "Hold On, I'm Comin'" since 2020 and are challenging the campaign to show the license it claims to have.
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Writers Sue Anthropic for Allegedly Stealing 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Books to Train AI Models

The complaint, filed on Monday in the Northern District of California, accuses the San Francisco-based company of illegally downloading and copying pirated versions of the material to feed to its large language models, which are designed to simulate human communication and generate predictive written responses to prompts by algorithmically processing the datasets they ingest.
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