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COVID Vaccine Patent Infringement Case Transferred From Mass. to Virginia Due to Lack of Personal Jurisdiction

"... [E]ven if those agreements were some evidence of the transaction of business in Massachusetts, jurisdiction would not lie because the claims here at issue do not arise from the alleged in-forum activity." the court wrote.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Copyright on the Bubble: A Look at 'Slice of the Ice' Dispute

With the Stanley Cup just around the corner, this month's column deals with a recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Grondin v. Fanatics, which involves an item of hockey memorabilia called "Slice of the Ice," a "Lucite sculpture in the approximate shape of the Stanley Cup, with a hockey puck–shaped piece in the center filled with melted ice gathered from the rink used in a prominent hockey game."
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Rules Against Andy Warhol in Copyright Fight Over Prince Portrait

Decision spurs unusually sharp back-and-forth between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the fair-use doctrine.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Non-Functional by Design?—Court Considers the Applicability of Copyright Act to 'Look and Feel' of a Website

Over the past few months, AI voice tools have been more widely released, and they work. It is trivial to use them to create a track that sounds, to the casual listener, like it was recorded by the famous artist of your choosing, and the micro-genre of AI-generated "covers" of existing songs by anomalous artists (or other public figures, like President Biden) has exploded on TikTok. So what legal recourse, if any, do these artists have?
11 minute read

Law.com

1st Circuit Reinstates Artist's Copyright Claims, Holds Federal Res Judicata Law Recognizes 'Alternative-Determinations Doctrine'

"We see no reason to disagree with the Restatement or our sister circuits in this regard, at least with respect to the broad outlines of the alternative-determinations doctrine as the Restatement describes it," stated Chief Judge David J. Barron. "Indeed, as the Restatement and our sister circuits recognize, there are good reasons for applying the doctrine, at least in some circumstances."
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Adult Film Producer Sues Man for Allegedly Pirating 49 Movies

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Litigation Daily

Unblurred Lines: Thinking Out Loud With Ed Sheeran's Copyright Trial Lawyers at Pryor Cashman

Ilene Farkas, Donald Zakarin and their team did a lot to ease the nerves of modern music makers last week when they convinced Manhattan jurors that Sheeran's Grammy-winning song "Thinking Out Loud" did not copy "Let's Get It On," the Marvin Gaye hit written by Ed Townsend.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Derivative or Not? IP Attorneys Weigh In on Major AI Art Copyright Class Action

A trio of AI art generators—Stability AI, Deviant Art and Midjourney—are looking to dismiss a class action complaint against them alleging copyright infringement. IP attorneys weigh in on the central arguments of the case and the impact it might have on this evolving issue.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

While Trump Civil Trial Delivers Drama, Copyright Case Elsewhere in SDNY Courthouse Features Free Concert

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."
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Careful With That Pic: Lawyers Are Filing More Copyright Suits for Photographers

"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.
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