Previously on this blog, we reported on Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement action against her and several co-defendants over the song “Flowers.”[1] On March 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
On February 11, 2025, a U.S. District Court in Delaware issued a decision of first impression finding that a technology startup’s use of copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence platform infringed the copyright holder’s rights and did not constitute
In a recent mixed decision that some news outlets reported as a win for art and antique dealers and others described as a win for conservationists, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the federal
We recently reported on a preliminary injunction issued in Mary Miss v. Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., temporarily barring the Des Moines Art Center from destroying Greenwood Pond: Double Site, artist Mary Miss’s well-known outdoor environmental art installation that is in
On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part Two of its planned reports on the intersection between copyright and generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Titled “Part 2: Copyrightability,” the Report addresses a hot issue—the extent to which AI-generated outputs
A lawsuit pending before Judge J. Paul Oetken of the District Court for the Southern District of New York may soon underscore the need to rethink the legal remedies available for potential legal violations aided by generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”).
The recent copyright law landscape is rife with infringement lawsuits alleging that one song substantially copied the musical elements of another. As a music industry norm, songwriters frequently split the copyright of a single song with one or more co-authors,
On December 16, 2024, Shira Perlmutter, head of the U.S. Copyright Office,[1] provided the relevant subcommittees of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees with an update on the Copyright Office’s ambitious investigation into the intersection of generative Artificial Intelligence
On August 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s legal victory in the copyright lawsuit fellow artist Joe Morford brought against him alleging that Comedian (2019), Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana
On May 3, 2024, U.S. District Judge Stephen H. Locher of the Southern District of Iowa granted artist Mary Miss’s motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the demolition or removal of her outdoor environmental artwork entitled Greenwood Pond: Double