When the machine gets you in trouble: from Usenet to AI agents

Even in cases decided thirty years apart, there remains a necessary volitional nexus between human conduct and machine action for there to be liability. The . . .

Reddit DMCA anticircumvention decision strengthens the value of structured data licensing

Plaintiff Reddit sued defendants SerpApi and Perplexity AI over alleged efforts to bypass technological measures restricting automated access to Reddit-related content appearing in Google search . . .

Court will not allow TikTok creator to identify anonymous Redditor

Plaintiff, a TikTok creator with roughly one million followers, makes his living livestreaming on the platform. After an anonymous Reddit user posted a 27-second clip . . .

Embedding video may not be copyright fair use

Plaintiff, a professional videographer, sued defendant, an operator of an online hip-hop news publication, for copyright infringement. Plaintiff had recorded two videos: a short clip . . .

Teacher’s X repost was fair use and not copyright infringement

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed with prejudice all claims brought by plaintiff author Keith Bell against Bartholomew Consolidated . . .

Supreme Court rejects contributory liability in long-running Cox case

Plaintiffs sued Defendant for secondary copyright infringement, alleging that Defendant, an internet service provider, was liable because it continued to provide internet access to subscribers . . .

Infringement case against OpenAI failed because there was no copyright registration

Thinking about suing an AI company for copyright infringement? Do not overlook the basics. Before any court will consider the merits of an infringement claim, . . .

Does the DMCA safe harbor cover infringing images in an email?

Plaintiff photographer sued Pinterest for copyright infringement, alleging Pinterest displayed his and other photographers’ copyrighted images in notifications sent outside of the Pinterest website. Pinterest . . .

Court bars expert from accessing AI source code in high profile copyright case

Plaintiffs sued Stability AI for misusing their copyrighted artwork to train generative AI models. As part of the lawsuit, plaintiffs sought to designate a University . . .

Voice cloning case presents novel AI copyright issues

Two professional voice actors based sued Lovo, a company that sells AI-generated voiceover software alleging, among other things, copyright infringement. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant took . . .