The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which works under the umbrella of the Librarian of Congress, sets statutory-license royalty terms and rates. The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently issued two notable decisions about the CRB.
What are some ways in which creatives and media companies capitalize on viral content? Can IP law keep pace with AI-driven internet culture? And why are gamers so obsessed with a club-wielding piece of lumber?
Questions on who owns AI training models using copyrighted material are no longer hypothetical, they are already the subject of active litigation, with several cases moving beyond the pleading stage.
Sampling portions of preexisting songs and sound recordings in new works became common in the 1980s, with the rise of hip-hop music and the widespread availability of digital sampling technology. This article examines several 2026 court decisions involving music sampling disputes.
Most sampling disputes are settled, but today there are enough legal guidelines to constructively analyze potential or actual sampling claims. This article examines several 2026 court decisions involving music sampling disputes.
It’s been an active season for the federal appeals courts on the copyright law front. This article summarizes three of these recent circuit court decisions.
A current work-for-hire dispute over rights to the musical adaptation, cast album compositions and sheet music based on the children’s horror novel Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium explores the inter-relationship of work-for-hire and copyright-ownership language in agreements signed both before and after the Goosebumps play was created.
A current work-for-hire dispute over rights to the musical adaptation, cast album compositions and sheet music based on the children’s horror novel Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium explores the inter-relationship of work-for-hire and copyright-ownership language in agreements signed both before and after the Goosebumps play was created.
Following what has become a global trend, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that EU copyright law allows the bloc’s member countries, including Italy, to require platforms like Meta to negotiate compensation with news publishers for online press content.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently held that a cease-and-desist letter can establish personal jurisdiction, finding that cease-and-desist letters sent to Floridian licensees that went beyond merely informing others of the sender’s intellectual property rights are sufficient to establish the minimum contacts necessary to exercise personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants.
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