The Copyright Office released a “pre-publication version” of its long-awaited AI and fair use report just a day before the Register of Copyrights was dismissed. Inside the timing, the fallout, and what it all means.
Late Friday afternoon—a time traditionally reserved for burying news and slipping out of the office—the U.S. Copyright Office quietly dropped…
In Vetter v. Resnik, a federal district court treated U.S. termination rights as a global eraser. Now, on appeal, it’s time to set things straight.
If you think the current administration’s tariff policies threaten to strain international relations, Vetter v. Resnik wants you to hold its beer. In Vetter, a federal district court in Louisiana…
A dispute over stage rights in To Kill a Mockingbird is testing the boundaries of copyright termination—and has drawn the U.S. Copyright Office into the fray.
It’s one of America’s most beloved novels, but To Kill a Mockingbird’s courtroom drama has now spilled off the page and into actual courtrooms. The fight centers on who…
I’m back. The courts never left. While I was moving firms, they were moving cases. From AI to Mariah, here’s everything I missed—rounded up and casually swept behind the couch.
When I announced last month that I was switching law firms, I proudly assured everyone it would still be business as usual for Copyright…
A Los Angeles jury needed less than three hours to clear Disney’s Buena Vista unit of copyright infringement—so why did it take five years and millions in legal fees to get there? With another no-access verdict in the books, it’s time for a more efficient approach.
Last week, a Los Angeles jury deliberated for just…
A five-year copyright battle over ‘Moana’ is heading to trial—despite the works sharing only very broad thematic similarities. Here’s why, and what you need to know.
For the second time in two months, a substantial similarity lawsuit is heading to trial—this time over Moana, one of Disney’s most successful and enduring animated films.
This latest…
Judge Bibas’s second take in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases.
“Highly fact-specific.” “Narrowly decided.” A case with “potentially limited impact.”
Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v.
A federal district court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just turned an “admittedly novel” termination theory into a final judgment, risking global copyright chaos. The Fifth Circuit awaits.
Last July, I wrote about Vetter v. Resnik, a case out of the Middle District of Louisiana that threatened to upend decades of settled copyright law. The…
Public domain works are free—unless misinformation and aggressive claims deter the public from freely using them. From Hergé to Chaplin, some estates won’t let go.
Over the past weekend, hundreds of thousands of comic fans from around the world flocked to southwestern France for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, one of Europe’s largest comics…
After a two-week trial, a California jury found that Apple TV+’s Servant didn’t infringe the copyright in Francesca Gregorini’s The Truth About Emanuel because the defendants lacked sufficient access to her film.
It’s no “I see dead people,” but as far as copyright infringement jury trials go, it’s a pretty good twist ending for M.…
