News publishers just cleared a key hurdle against Cohere in a copyright fight over AI-generated “substitutive summaries” of their reporting.
If you’re only keeping a loose eye on the fifty-plus AI copyright lawsuits now crawling their way through federal courts, you may have missed an important new ruling last week out of the Southern District…
Thanks to international copyright treaties, Ronald Reagan’s public domain speech may be protected in Canada—even as Canada gets tariffed for using it here.
President Trump just imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian goods—punishment for Ontario airing ads that quote Ronald Reagan warning against tariffs.
The commercials, which ran during the World Series…
The Seventh Circuit just reminded musicians: register the right copyright or risk losing even when tracks sound indistinguishable. But what if the artist actually did register correctly—and nobody noticed?
Eddie Lee Richardson thought he did everything right.
When the then–16-year-old producer known as Hotwire heard his beat “Hood Pushin’ Weight” playing behind French Montana‘s…
Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.
What a wild week. Just three days after launching Sora 2 with a brazen policy that let users create videos featuring copyrighted characters unless rightsholders explicitly…
I tested OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app. Within minutes I was generating branded cartoon clips. Hollywood’s AI headache just got animated.
OpenAI just launched Sora 2, its new AI video app, and the results are both powerful and unsettling. The tool makes it easy to spin short, polished videos from text prompts or…
A federal judge has dismissed an artist’s copyright infringement lawsuit over a Lion King ride concept, finding no substantial similarity after filtering out Disney’s own IP.
In what may be the year’s most self-defeating copyright case, an aspiring Disney designer just learned how hard it is to sue Disney for copying your copy of Disney.…
Fair use wins, exclusivity loses, the Ninth Circuit finally publishes, and the future of a psychic network’s lawsuit looks hazy. Time to catch up.
Hi everyone! If you’ve been wondering why Copyright Lately has been quieter than the salad bar at a Golden Corral, it’s because I have this pesky habit of practicing law for…
It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.
Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion for training its Claude AI models on nearly 500,000 pirated books downloaded from shadow libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror. The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that…
Donald Trump just took another copyright loss, as court holds that interviewers, not their subjects, own rights in recorded conversations.
While Donald Trump was making headlines Friday with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, a federal court quietly handed him another legal defeat. Southern District of New York Judge Paul…
