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SDNY Blog
Judge Kaplan: Evasion Of YouTube’s Anti-Scraping Measures By AI Firm Can Violate DMCA, Even For Free Public Videos
In an opinion Friday, Judge Kaplan denied a motion by AI video developer Runway AI to dismiss a putative class action brought by YouTube creators. The creators allege that Runway…
The IP Law Blog
The Briefing: No Copyright Claim Needed: How Creators Are Using the DMCA to Challenge AI Training
https://youtu.be/hVLop-0X00w Can bypassing YouTube’s protections to collect AI training data violate the DMCA? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss TED Entertainment…
IP Brief
Copyrights on YouTube: Enforcement and Reality
By Andrea Arndt
Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions highlight an environment of uneasy compromise. Originally published by Investor’s Digest. Reprinted with permission. During the past two decades, YouTube has operated at the uneasy…
The IP Law Blog
The Briefing: Copied, Generated and Forfeited! The AI Copyright Ruling in Doe v GitHub
https://youtu.be/4FDTks-FE4M If AI generates something that looks like your work without crediting you, is that a DMCA violation? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and…
IP IQ
New Code, Old Rules: 9th Circuit Says GitHub Copilot’s Output Is Not a “Copy” Under the DMCA
AI developers who train large language models on copyrighted code just cleared a significant legal hurdle. On September 16, 2026, the 9th Circuit affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs' claim in…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Weekly Top Posts – September 25, 2026
Every week, lawyers add sharp, timely commentary to the Library at LexBlog, covering the issues shaping their practices and industries. The Weekly Top Posts highlights the pieces that stood out…
RopesDataPhiles
Ninth Circuit Rules Generative AI Outputs Are Not “Stripped Copies” Under the DMCA
By Briana Fasone, Regina Sam Penti, Chloe Meyers, Oceania Eshraghi
Introduction On September 16, 2026, the Ninth Circuit held in Doe v. GitHub, Inc. that outputs produced by a generative AI coding tool are newly generated works, not copies of…
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…
Gibson Dunn
Ninth Circuit Clarifies Limits of DMCA Liability for AI-Generated Code
The decision provides an important defense to claims that an AI tool violates the DMCA merely because it generates material resembling a plaintiff’s work without identifying the original author or…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
After $6M and 17 Years Fighting the Record Labels’ Copyright Lawfare, the Court Awards Vimeo $16k in Costs–Capitol Records v. Vimeo
By Eric Goldman
The record labels sued Vimeo for user-caused copyright infringement in 2009. The case is still ongoing in 2026. How old is this lawsuit? If it were a person, it would…