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Indiana Intellectual Property Blog
Copyright Registration Before You Sue (and Why Photographers Keep Learning This the Hard Way)
A photographer in Indianapolis shoots a wedding, a storefront, a plate of food. The picture shows up on someone else’s website. A friend says “send a cease-and-desist.” Another friend says…
Jotwell
Insightful New Empirical Study Measuring Market Effects
The Copyright Act is turning fifty this year. One of the many things that has not changed in U.S. copyright law is a ongoing struggle to map the territory of…
Intellectual Property
Phonorecords V Cannot Be Another Rate Freeze by Another Name
By Kevin Casini
Phonorecords V Cannot Be Another Rate Freeze by Another Name The Copyright Royalty Judges' September 10th Order (Order 10) in the Phonorecords V proceeding suggests that the proposed settlement governing…
Missouri Lawyers Media
Operator of AI music generator can’t escape copyright suit
Listen to this article In Brief Federal judge denies motion to dismiss derivative-work copyright claim filed by operator of AI music generator Plaintiffs did not have to identify specific infringing…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
The Fifth Circuit Does Fifth Circuit Things in Copyright Embedding Case–Emmerich v. Particle
By Eric Goldman
Here is a real-time video of me trying to read any new Fifth Circuit opinion on Internet Law: Odds are that the outcome will be terrible; and even if not,…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Terms of Service Just Got Teeth: Reddit’s Scraping Suit Against Anthropic Survives
By Daniel Lass
Last week, a federal District Court judge largely rejected Anthropic’s demurrer to Reddit’s suit accusing it of improperly gathering user content to train its AI model Claude. Reddit, Inc. v.…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Copyright update: The Fifth Circuit says “no” to the Ninth Circuit server test and “maybe” to URLs as copyright management information (CMI)
The Internet is, at its core, a system of knowledge consisting of files stored on computers that are linked and made accessible to the public by URLs. The Fifth Circuit…
Iprmentlaw Blog
IPRMENTLAW Highlights (September 7-13, 2026)
TRAI Repeals 12-Minute TV Advertising Cap The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) repealed its long standing regulation capping television advertisements at 12 minutes per clock hour. This was done…
Turtle Talk
Indigenous Issues in Pop Culture: The Copyright Case Behind the Yellowstone TV Series’ Tribal Land Conflict
A new copyright lawsuit alleges that some of Yellowstone’s most recognizable Tribal storylines first appeared in an earlier, unproduced television series. Lauren Salkin alleges that she spent more than a…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SAD Scheme Plaintiff Must Pay $40k to Defendant–Guangzhou Tinpod v. Schedule A Defendants
By Eric Goldman
The plaintiff is Guangzhou Tinpod Electronic Technology Co. The plaintiff initially sued under the XYZ pseudonym and hasn’t updated the case caption, even though its identity is no longer sealed.…