26 Sep, 2024 California Passes New Legislation Prohibiting Unauthorized AI Replicas By Samantha Rothaus Jordan Thompson California’s 2024 legislative session has resulted in some major new protections against the harmful use of artificial intelligence...
07 Feb, 2024 Copyright: Italy Amends the Legislative Framework for Collective Rights Management By Ernesto Apa Chiara Marchisotti In collaboration with Angelo Aimar CLARIFYING PROPORTIONALITY OF LICENSE FEES TO NEGOTIATED RIGHTS VALUE AND COLLECTING SOCIETY...
23 Jan, 2024 French Montana and the Scope of Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings vs. Compositions By Brian Murphy You have to tip your hi-hat to Eddie Lee Richardson, a/k/a Hotwire the Producer, a/k/a the plaintiff in this case. When he was 16 years...
05 Oct, 2023 New Solutions, Old Problems: The Thaler Case and Why AI Creations Will Not Be Granted Copyright Protection Easily By Lydia Mendola Thanks to Marianna Riedo for collaborating on this article In its recent ruling in the case of Thaler v. Perlmutter,[1] the United States...
05 Oct, 2023 Jeff Koons’ Serpents Burrows Into the Market as Italian Supreme Court Rules That Public Display of a Work Amounts to “First Publication” By Chiara Marchisotti Thanks to Benedetta Pelizzari for collaborating on this article In its decision of August 7, 2023, No. 23935, the Italian Supreme Court...
03 Apr, 2023 The Risks and Rewards of Generative AI By Sara Edelman Paavana Kumar Samantha Rothaus Howard Weingrad Andrew Richman +2 more... Show less From generating sophisticated music, artwork, text and video to having a conversation, passing complex standardized tests and, even, as...
27 Mar, 2023 The Training Wheels are Off: The Copyright Implications of Training Generative AI By Marc Rachman Sarah Benowich Eva Jiménez With the introduction of several readily available applications, artificial intelligence (AI) has leaped into the mainstream and brought...
06 Feb, 2022 The Eleventh Circuit's Melodramatic (?) Copyright License Interpretation (About a Telenovela!) By Brian Murphy El Señor de los Cielosthe plot summary, to be my kind of fare. The series tells the story of Aurelio Casillas, a drug lord who has la...
17 Jan, 2022 Rapper Fat Joe Lost the Signed Contract ... But Still Wins Case Over Ownership of "All the Way Up" By Brian Murphy Lawyers often tell clients: put it in writing. A corollary, which often goes unsaid (but perhaps shouldn't), is: save a copy. This case...
31 Dec, 2021 Taylor Swift Can't Catch a Break, Break, Break, Break ... By Brian Murphy Taylor Swift just can't ... give it the slip ... skip out on it ... pay no mind to it ... Oh, Jiminy Cricket. I'm just going to say it....
24 Dec, 2021 Works from 1926 (and Pre-1923 Sound Recordings) Enter the Public Domain in the U.S. By Brian Murphy On January 1, 2022, all literary works, compositions, and films first published in 1926, and all pre-1923 sound recordings, will enter...
20 Dec, 2021 Vegan Dog Treats and Copyright By Brian Murphy Chef Chloe Coscarelli - the first vegan chef to be crowned a winner on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars - has been waging a years-long,...
23 Nov, 2020 Image Rights and Their Clash with Copyright Law: New Challenges and New Horizons By Lydia Mendola Images play a pivotal role in modern society, as they can convey various messages and acquire autonomous informational, commercial, or...
16 Nov, 2020 Which Legal Protection for Street Art? By Lydia Mendola The EUIPO’s recent declaration of invalidity of one of Banksy’s registered trademarks again raises the issue of the appropriate legal...
30 May, 2020 Nothing "Fishy" About Use of Children's Song "Fish Sticks n' Tater Tots" in Documentary about Burlesque Dancers, Court Rules By Brian Murphy Fish Sticks n' Tater Tots. A typical school lunch during Lent in a Catholic grammar school. Also the title of a children's song written...
19 Mar, 2020 Is "This Land is Your Land" in the Public Domain? By Brian Murphy In 2004 - four Presidential election cycles ago - the website JibJab posted a wildly popular video in which animated versions of...