By Andrew Denney | Ryland West | April 27, 2023
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is on trial for a copyright lawsuit in which he is accused of ripping off R&B legend Marvin Gaye's hit "Let's Get It On" to make his own chart-topping "Thinking Out Loud."
By Charles Toutant | April 26, 2023
"I think there are folks out there, given how the internet is, who probably say, 'Hey, that's a cool picture.' I don't know if most people know they are violating the law," plaintiffs lawyer Jonathan O'Boyle said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis
By Amanda O'Brien | April 17, 2023
Local firms are preparing for an approaching wave of regulation and scrutiny by both federal and state governments. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) are under the spotlight.
By Aaron Dunn and Chris King | April 12, 2023
The United States Copyright Office recently issued a letter ruling on the copyrightability of Kristina Kashtanova's comic book-like work, Zarya of the Dawn. The Kashtanova ruling indicates that the Copyright Office's determination of copyrightability of works involving use of AI will rely on whether the author is able to control and foresee with some measure of predictability the output of the authorial process.
By Alaina Lancaster | April 12, 2023
Whyte's colleagues and attorneys said the San Jose judge was a "dean" who provided advice and leadership to the Northern California legal community.
By ALM Staff | April 11, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Peter Brown | April 10, 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL) to operate until the end of the national emergency. The NEL offered access to millions of digitized books on its database, including thousands of contemporary works still under copyright. Four major book publishers filed suit in the Southern District seeking to enjoin IA and its free library system from infringing the publishers' copyrights for their books. This article discusses the case Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, where District Judge John Koeltl rejected all of IA defenses and granted the publishers' motion for summary judgment to enjoin IA's infringing activities.
By ALM Staff | April 3, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Allison Dunn | March 31, 2023
The judge declined, however, to grant the defendants' request for sanctions against plaintiffs counsel Mathew Kidman Higbee and his firm Higbee & Associates, which specializes in copyright law.
The Legal Intelligencer | Event
By Amanda O'Brien | March 29, 2023
Attorneys shouldn't fear having their actions thrown back at a corporation if it becomes a defendant. "Your job as a lawyer is to distinguish things," Brian Savage argued at a forum hosted by Dechert.
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