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AI-Training Ruling Finds No Fair Use Image

AI-Training Ruling Finds No Fair Use

Mason Lawlor

A recent AI copyright ruling out of federal court could have a sprawling impact on how companies, both big and small, use the technology responsibly.

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Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled Image

Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled

Catherine Nyarady & Crystal Parker

The Second Circuit’s decision may have significant downstream implications for other digital lending services, making it more difficult to operate absent licensing agreements with copyright holders of the various works they seek to distribute. With Internet Archive deciding against petitioning the Supreme Court, we may well see similar litigation pop up in other jurisdictions outside the Second Circuit until the issue is more widely settled.

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Artists Release Silent Album to Protest Change In UK Copyright Law Image

Artists Release Silent Album to Protest Change In UK Copyright Law

Steve Salkin

More than 1,000 artists are credited on a “silent” record released on February 25 in protest over changes that the UK government is considering to its copyright law, changes which critics say will make it easier for AI models to use copyrighted material without securing a license.

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IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & George Soussou

Federal Circuit: PTAB Jurisdiction Exists Over Expired PatentsFederal Circuit: No Estoppel on Unadjudicated Claims

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Amazon-Backed AI Company Agrees to ‘Guardrails’ On Using Copyrighted Lyrics to Train Claude AI Product Image

Amazon-Backed AI Company Agrees to ‘Guardrails’ On Using Copyrighted Lyrics to Train Claude AI Product

Michelle Morgante

Music publishers have reached a partial agreement with Anthropic that requires the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company to implement “guardrails” around its use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its flagship product, Claude.

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Copyright Cases Roundup

Stan Soocher

A roundup of recent cases in entertainment-related copyrights.

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Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement At the Supreme Court Image

Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement At the Supreme Court

Catherine Nyarady & Crystal Parker

In February 2024, the Fourth Circuit addressed a jury’s 2020 damages award of $1 billion finding Cox secondarily liable for its subscribers’ copyright infringement through illegal copying of copyrighted songs. Both Cox and Sony filed petitions for certiorari.

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Upcoming Event: Copyright Year In Review

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

CLE sponsored by the Copyright Society of the South, Nashville, TN, Dec. 12, 2024.

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Fifth Circuit Rejects Majority 'Independent Economic Value' Test for Infringement Damages Image

Fifth Circuit Rejects Majority 'Independent Economic Value' Test for Infringement Damages

Stan Soocher

Most of the federal circuit courts that have addressed what qualifies either as a "compilation" or as a single creative work apply an "independent economic value" analysis that looks at the market worth of the single creation as of the time when an infringement occurs. But in a recent ruling of first impression, the Fifth Circuit rejected the "independent economic value" test in determining which individual sound recordings are eligible for their own statutory awards and which are part of compilation.

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Artist Challenges Copyright Office Refusal to Register Award-Winning AI-Assisted Work Image

Artist Challenges Copyright Office Refusal to Register Award-Winning AI-Assisted Work

Emily Bullis

Copyright law has long struggled to keep pace with advances in technology, and the debate around the copyrightability of AI-assisted works is no exception. At issue is the human authorship requirement: the principle that a work must have a human author to be eligible for copyright protection. While the Copyright Office has previously cited this "bedrock requirement of copyright" to reject registrations, recent decisions have focused on the role of human authorship in the context of AI.

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