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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Artist’s side hustle lands him in DMCA litigation with autonomous vehicle company

May 22, 2024 - 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 . . .

X avoids much of music industry copyright lawsuit

March 12, 2024 - 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 . . .

Print-on-demand platform avoids liability for illustrator’s copyright claims

March 11, 2024 - 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 . . .

Game developer prevails in action over bogus DMCA takedown notices

March 7, 2024 - Defendant posted some videos on YouTube about the game Destiny 2. The videos stayed online for eight years with no issues until Bungie, the game's . . .

GenAI and copyright: Court dismisses almost all claims against OpenAI in authors’ suit

February 13, 2024 - Plaintiff authors sued large language model provider OpenAI and related entities for copyright infringement, alleging that plaintiffs’ books were used to train ChatGPT. Plaintiffs asserted . . .

DMCA subpoena to “mere conduit” ISP was improper

February 12, 2024 - Because ISP acted as a conduit for the transmission of material that allegedly infringed copyright, it fell under the DMCA safe harbor in 17 U.S.C. . . .

cPanel gets injunction to shut down sophisticated counterfeiting enterprise

January 4, 2024 - The purveyor of cPanel - the well-known hosting automation software - has successfully obtained an injunction against an overseas enterprise accused of engaging in an . . .