Follow Us
Call 855-808-4530 or email Gro[email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently upheld a final refusal by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) to register a visual work entitled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” According to the application filed with the USCO by plaintiff Stephen Thaler, the image was not the product of human authorship but was instead “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine,” which the plaintiff called the Creativity Machine and identified as the “author” of the work. The plaintiff named himself as the copyright claimant, however, on the basis that he was the “owner of the machine.”
Continue reading by getting
started with a subscription.
Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright
By Stan Soocher
Reversing and remanding, the Ninth Circuit emphasized: “The district court’s approach of reducing choreography to ‘poses’ is fundamentally at odds with the way we analyze copyright claims for other art forms, like musical compositions.”
AI’s Growing Impact On the Gaming Industry
By Katherine A. Baker, Jeffrey M. Kelly and Joshua L. Kirschner
The gaming and wagering sector has begun to cross paths with artificial intelligence technology in ways both predictable and unforeseen. As with other industries, AI technology inevitably has found its way into various components of the gaming experience. What is striking, however, is how AI is revolutionizing gaming for operators, regulators, suppliers and patrons alike.
Student Athletes Try to Form Labor Union
By Jeffrey Campolongo and Scott M. Badami
Does the ability to receive remuneration for being a college athlete mean that the students are deemed employees of the university? Do employment laws apply? Are labor laws enforced? Does OSHA enter the equation? What about HIPAA concerns relating to medical conditions and injuries?
By Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Copyright © ALM Global, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
