Supreme Court Narrows Contributory Copyright Liability
April 2, 2026
Big news in the world of copyright. The Supreme Court just held that a service provider is contributorily liable only if it intended its service to be used
Call of Duty Lawsuit Ends Without Attorneys’ Fees for Activision
September 22, 2025
The Fifth Circuit just weighed in on a copyright fight between retired wrestler Booker T. Huffman and video game giant Activision. Huffman claimed that Activision’s
AI’s secret ingredient: Text, Data, and Fair Use
September 15, 2025
Data Mining Includes Copyrighted Materials Text and data mining (TDM) means collecting large volumes of data from the internet. From that data, large language models
Fair Use and AI Training: Buy It or Bye-Bye
August 20, 2025
A recent court decision gave AI developers a roadmap for staying out of copyright trouble—and a big flashing warning sign for what not to do.
AI Training, Fair Use, and Meta
July 2, 2025
What Is Fair Use? We recently covered the Copyright Office’s report on AI training and fair use. Fair Use is a part of copyright law
Copyright Office Report on AI Training and Fair Use
June 16, 2025
Can AI Use Copyrighted Material Under Fair Use? Can AI systems rely on the fair use doctrine when training on copyrighted works? That question sits
AI and Copyright: Court Rules Against Fair Use in Training AI Models
February 26, 2025
On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware delivered a landmark decision in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross
Did Fair Use Get a Face-Lift?
June 6, 2023
The Origins of the Prince Photograph Dispute In 1981, Lynn Goldsmith photographed the music artist Prince for Newsweek magazine. 15 years later, she licensed one
Developments in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
April 11, 2023
The U.S. Copyright Office Responds to the Rise of AI-Generated Works The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has noticed the increased number of copyright applications that
Ignorance Of The Law May Be An Excuse In Copyright Registration
March 9, 2022
Supreme Court Decision in Unicolors v H&M On February 24th, 2022, the Supreme Court has published a decision, Unicolors v H&M. Overall, the decision makes
Non-Fungible Tokens and Copyrights
November 15, 2021
NFT’s Explained What is a non-fungible token? Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique pieces of data stored on a digital ledger- a blockchain. Non-fungible just means
New Way Of Enforcing Copyright Against Infringers
January 11, 2021
In late December, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act established the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). In simple terms, the CCB is like a small claims
The Copyright Office’s new GRTX option
October 28, 2020
New Group Copyright Registration for Short Online Works Have you ever wanted to get federal copyright protection on a whole group of your best hot-take