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Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

Notable court filings in entertainment law.

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Players on the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Keeping Track of Developments in Cases That Pit Creative Content Against AI Programs

Stan Soocher

2024 starts off with court decisions and procedural rulings that took shape in 2023 in lawsuits that were filed over the collision of creative content with generative AI programs. Most of the complaints allege copyright infringement and related claims prompted by the unlicensed copyright works that AI companies input into their AI programs.

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How Likely FTC's Comments On Copyright & AI May Become Policy

Isha Marathe

The FTC said that the misuse of training data like infringing on a work's copyright license is tantamount to unfair competition, thus implicating consumer protection with copyright policy and securing the agency's jurisdiction in the regulatory space.

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Interviews With Defense Lawyers In Authors' AI Suit Against Meta

Ross Todd

Whether there's a fair use right to use copyrighted texts to train learning language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA is one of the central legal questions facing companies developing generative artificial intelligence. District Judge Chhabria then knocked out a significant chunk of the plaintiffs' initial claims — a win for Meta's legal team. Following are interviews about the case with these defense lawyers.

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Players On the Move Image

Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

Columns & Departments

Fresh Filings Image

Fresh Filings

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

Notable court filings in entertainment law.

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Entertainment Law & Finance Is Going Digital Only. Here's What You Need to Know.

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The final print edition of Entertainment Law & Finance will be our January issue.

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Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright

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."

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AI's Growing Impact On the Gaming Industry

Katherine A. Baker, Jeffrey M. Kelly & 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.

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