Copyright
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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Court lets authors expand copyright case to target Databricks’ new AI models
Five copyright holders sued Databricks and Mosaic ML, claiming their copyrighted works were used to train artificial intelligence systems without permission. Plaintiffs originally alleged that . . .
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TikTok and Meta terms granted other users remix rights
Plaintiff sued TikTok and Meta after other users on those platforms incorporated clips from her video into their own posts, allegedly without her permission. She . . .
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X can claim trespass to chattel in data scraping case
X Corp. sued Bright Data Ltd. for unauthorized access to X's servers and the scraping and resale of data from X’s platform. Plaintiff sought the . . .
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Court blocks part of Texas law targeting social media content
Two trade associations - the Computer & Communications Industry Association and NetChoice, LLC sued the Attorney General of Texas over a Texas law called House . . .
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Artist’s side hustle lands him in DMCA litigation with autonomous vehicle company
A dispute between a digital artist and his former employer over content rights resulted in a court allowing the employee's DMCA claim while striking the . . .
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X avoids much of music industry copyright lawsuit
Plaintiffs sued X for copyright infringement arising from X’s users uploading tweets that contained copyright-protected music. Plaintiffs accused X of “trying to generate the kind . . .
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Print-on-demand platform avoids liability for illustrator’s copyright claims
Plaintiff illustrator (known for his works involving fish) sued defendant print-on-demand online platform operators for copyright infringement. Defendants’ platform enabled third parties to upload designs . . .