Posts tagged with "copyright"

  1. AnonymityCopyright

    Court will not allow TikTok creator to identify anonymous Redditor

    June 29, 2026 - 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 . . .

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  2. CopyrightSocial Media

    Embedding video may not be copyright fair use

    April 27, 2026 - 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 . . .

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  3. Artificial IntelligenceDMCA

    AI model training case raising DMCA anticircumvention issues moves forward

    April 16, 2026 - Plaintiff record companies sued defendant Udio, an AI music generation platform that allows users to create songs from text prompts and audio inputs. Plaintiffs alleged . . .

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  4. Copyright

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

    April 6, 2026 - 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 . . .

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  5. CopyrightDMCA

    Supreme Court rejects contributory liability in long-running Cox case

    March 25, 2026 - 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 . . .

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  6. Artificial IntelligenceCopyright

    Infringement case against OpenAI failed because there was no copyright registration

    January 12, 2026 - 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, . . .

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  7. CopyrightDMCA

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

    January 6, 2026 - 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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  8. Artificial IntelligenceCopyright

    Voice cloning case presents novel AI copyright issues

    July 11, 2025 - 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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  9. CopyrightLitigation

    Court lets authors expand copyright case to target Databricks’ new AI models

    June 26, 2025 - 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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  10. CopyrightSocial Media

    TikTok and Meta terms granted other users remix rights

    April 29, 2025 - 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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