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 Call of Duty: Black Ops…
Text and data mining (TDM) is basically grabbing lots of data from the internet. From that data, large language models and AI extract patterns and can generate text.Accessing large amounts…
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.The case: Anthropic, the folks behind…
We posted an article recently covering the Copyright Office’s report on AI training and fair use.Just to review quickly, Fair Use is the provision of copyright law that allows for…
Can AI systems use copyrighted materials under the fair use doctrine?The fair use doctrine is a provision of copyright law that allows for limited usage of copyrighted material in certain…
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 Intelligence Inc., ruling that the…
In 1981, Lynn Goldsmith photographed the music artist Prince for Newsweek magazine. 15 years later, she licensed one of those photos to Vanity Fair as a single-use artist’s reference for…
The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has noticed the increased number of copyright applications that contain or include AI-generated works and has launched an initiative to examine the copyright law and…
On February 24th, 2022, the Supreme Court has published a decision, Unicolors v H&M, that will make challenging the validity of a copyright registration much harder. Under the US Copyright…
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 they are unique and can’t be exactly…