9/2/2025 7:20:37 PM AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings By Alex Reese By Alex Reese and Tom Pardini Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings...
7/22/2025 1:08:38 PM Growing Momentum for AI’s Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings By Alex Reese Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether...
3/28/2025 11:56:10 PM Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI By Eugene Mar Su Li Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement...
3/26/2025 6:46:21 PM Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI By Su Li Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement...
2/14/2025 6:48:11 PM Ruling Against Fair Use Defense for AI Training Seems To Be Narrow, but Is It? By Farella Braun + Martel In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge...
2/3/2025 7:13:24 PM Is Fair Use Threatening to Swallow Computer Copyright Protection? By Eugene Mar This case tested the contours of the landmark Google v. Oracle computer software code fair use decision. Astronics, a military aerospace...
1/30/2025 6:26:42 PM Copyright Office Report Further Clarifies Human Authorship Requirement for Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works By Farella Braun + Martel In a long-anticipated report from the U.S. Copyright Office providing guidance on the copyrightability of works created by and/or with...
6/1/2024 8:24:00 PM 7 Ways Companies and Content Creators Can Navigate Copyright Law for a Successful Partnership By Sushila Chanana In recent years, the advent of the social media “influencer” has revolutionized advertising. Companies often partner with influencers to...
5/13/2024 8:57:32 PM No Three-Year Bar on Copyright Damages (For Now): SCOTUS Issues Opinion in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. By Jeffrey Fisher Victoria Huang In a 6-3 majority decision in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al., the Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act...
4/15/2024 10:47:48 PM Copyright Law for Influencers and Brands: How Content Creators and Companies Hiring Them Can Navigate Copyright Law for a Successful Partnership By Sushila Chanana In recent years, the advent of the social media “influencer” has revolutionized advertising. Companies often partner with influencers to...
2/28/2024 7:46:38 PM Will the Supreme Court Limit Copyright Damages? Implications of Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. By Jeffrey Fisher Victoria Huang The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. (Case No. 22-1078) on February...
2/1/2024 1:11:12 AM Is the Copyright Threat to Generative AI Overhyped? Implications of Kadrey v. Meta By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry In November 2023, Meta successfully had nearly all of the claims against it dismissed in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. suit, a...
12/15/2023 6:58:00 PM Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence: AI Copyright Law and Fair Use on Trial By Sushila Chanana On Sept. 25, 2023, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation in the District of Delaware), determined that fact questions surrounding...
11/22/2023 10:17:51 PM It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI: Intellectual Property and Data Privacy Concerns With Nonprofits’ Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems By Cynthia Rowland In today's rapidly changing technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines and being discussed constantly. To...
11/10/2023 11:07:28 PM Fair Use Question Goes to Trial in AI Copyright Lawsuit – Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence By Sushila Chanana On September 25, 2023, a United States Circuit Judge determined that fact questions surrounding issues of fair use and tortious...
1/9/2023 7:34:00 PM Nonprofit Websites and Terms of Use - Best Practices and Common Pitfalls By Cynthia Rowland Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. Happy New Year, everyone! In episode 26, Cynthia Rowland and her guest Nate...