If You Choose Not to Decide, You Still Have Made a Choice The Copyright Act’s three-year limitation period doesn’t limit damages to the...
In an August 18, 2023 decision, a judge ruled that works generated by artificial intelligence (AI)[1] are not copyrightable. This may...
Instagram isn’t liable for copyright infringement because it provides embedding tools that allow third-party websites to retrieve and...
In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court found that an Andy Warhol silkscreen of the singer Prince, sourced from an original Lynn Goldsmith...
xThis may be news to the photographers who continue to make claims against news organizations, but use of photographs in news reporting...
The recent decision in Petersen v. Diesel Power Gear [1] highlights the risks to executives and owners of any business that engages in...
Patent and trademark applicants need to be pretty careful in their registration applications, but the Supreme Court has made things a bit...
Here are seven resolutions – not including the obligatory “get in shape” or “be more organized” – that you may want to consider for 2022....
A California judge has dismissed the copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims of a photographer who sued...
Social media platforms make it easy to embed photos or videos that appear on their sites. For example, Instagram and Facebook’s embedding...
At its core, indirect copyright infringement requires direct infringement, plus an indirect infringer who knew of it, and either...
This article has been updated as of April 1, 2021.Oscar Wilde said, “there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one...
The 5,593 page Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“Act”) that Congress passed in the days before the holiday is largely touted as a...
A news organization can fairly use a copyrighted photo from an Instagram post when the social media post is itself a key element of the...
A multi-million dollar verdict in favor of New York graffiti artists is now final. We previously wrote about the case when first filed in...
Most lawsuits in the United States follow the American Rule: win or lose, each party pays their own attorney. The Copyright Act is...