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Generative AI and Copyright Law

Karl Zielaznicki, Victoria D. Summerfield & Eliza Cen

Generative AI can do it all. However, its increasing popularity means that users of GAI programs face substantial intellectual property risks — particularly when businesses use GAI for marketing and other public-facing purposes.

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How the Supreme Court Saved the Internet from Itself: 'Gonzalez v. Google' and 'Twitter v. Taamneh'

Erick Franklund

The Internet is still standing, but the Supreme Court's reasoning in theGonzalez opinion remains perplexing. Gonzalez and Taamneh are a story about how the Supreme Court "saved" the Internet from itself, and the Court needed both cases to do so.

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The Problem With Sup. Ct. Majority Opinion In Andy Warhol Foundation

Nicole D. Galli & Andrew J. Costa

Commentary The high court's decision's future application is anything but clear and clarification of the parameters of a "transformative" fair use is left open for another day.

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9th Circuit Bases Attorney Fees On What Class-Action Clients Get In Hand

Avalon Zoppo

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made clear its view — that class-action plaintiffs' lawyers generally should not be awarded fees that exceed the amount their clients get from a settlement — as the court struck down a $1.7 million fee award in which a copyright plaintiffs' class received less than $53,000 in an infringement dispute settlement.

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Online Extra: The Other Recent Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Ed Sheeran

Stan Soocher

The lion's share of attention to copyright-infringement claims against Ed Sheeran over his song of the Year "Thinking Out Loud" recently focused on the trial in New York federal court in which a jury found in Sheeran's favor in the lawsuit brought by the heirs of a co-author of the 1970s soul-song classic "Let's Get It On." But in September 2022, a related infringement suit over the same songs' matching chord progression and harmonic rhythm was allowed to go forward.

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The Other Recent Infringement Lawsuit Judgment Over Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' Image

The Other Recent Infringement Lawsuit Judgment Over Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud'

Stan Soocher

The lion's share of attention to copyright-infringement claims against Ed Sheeran over his 2016 Grammy-winning Song of the Year "Thinking Out Loud" recently focused on the trial in New York federal court. But in September 2022, a related infringement suit over the same songs' matching chord progression and harmonic rhythm was allowed to proceed.

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All Is Not Fair In Love and Warhol

Jonathan Moskin

A new balance must be struck between the new use and the exclusive right of authors to make derivative works, and part of that balance includes a clearer focus on the statutory fair use factors as well as the commercial nature or not of the new work. As a practical matter, how much the decision changes in this "troublesome" area remains to be seen.

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Music Rates and Royalties In 2023

Jeff Brabec & Todd Brabec

Part Two of a Two-Part Article Part One of this article discussed mechanical licenses and interactive streaming services. Part Two covers songwriters and music publishers, and record labels.

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Copyright Office On AI-Works Registrations

Isha Marathe

The U.S. Copyright Office recently found itself waffling on a copyright registration it granted, and then revoked, within a span of months. The work in question, a comic book, transcended the traditional artificial-intelligence authorship debate it contained an amalgam of human-created text and generative AI-created artwork.

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Authorship and Copyright In Hybrid AI-Human Collaborative Works

Aaron Dunn & Chris King

The United States Copyright Office recently issued a letter ruling on the copyrightability of Kristina Kashtanova's comic book-like work, Zarya of the Dawn. The Kashtanova ruling indicates that the Copyright Office's determination of copyrightability of works involving use of AI will rely on whether the author is able to control and foresee with some measure of predictability the output of the authorial process

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