Bloomberg Law “Udio AI music-generation service was sued by independent music creators alleging the company used their works without permission to flood the market with AI-generated music in violation of their intellectual property rights. The proposed class action is similar to copyright-infringement suits filed by the major music labels against Unchartered Labs Inc., Read more
Bloomberg Law “Apple Inc. flouted copyright law when it used pirated materials and copies of e-books sold on its own books app to train its AI tool Apple Intelligence, a pair of State University of New York professors alleged in a federal lawsuit. Apple’s OpenELM model, one of several comprising Apple Read more
Bloomberg Law “Disney, Warner Bros., and other entertainment giants put a new twist on the copyright war against generative AI by focusing lawsuits on audiovisual outputs rather than training data, altering both the obstacles and pathways to victory. The studios’ assaults on AI content companies Midjourney Inc. and Minimax allege copyright Read more
Bloomberg Law “A Texas federal judge rightly denied Activision Blizzard Inc. attorneys’ fees after defeating professional wrestler Booker T’s copyright infringement lawsuit over a character in the video game-maker’s Call of Duty series, the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday. The judge conducted a “careful analysis” to determine that the lawsuit wasn’t objectively unreasonable Read more
Bloomberg Law “The way courts will view the fair use argument for training generative artificial intelligence models with copyrighted materials will be tested Thursday in a San Francisco courtroom, when the first of dozens of such lawsuits reaches summary judgment. Meta Platforms Inc. and a group of authors including comedian Sarah Read more
Reuters “March 6 – Apple (AAPL.O, opens new tab convinced a New York federal court on Thursday to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by tech journalist Dan Ackerman, who accused the tech giant of ripping off his book about the landmark video game “Tetris” for a movie on the same subject. Read more
Bloomberg Law ” Volkswagen Group of America Inc.—a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG—is entitled to attorneys’ fees from a dismissed VDPP LLC lawsuit that accused the German automaker of incorporating patented camera-related technology into surround-view monitoring systems in its vehicles. VDPP and its attorney, William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP, engaged in abusive Read more
Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music (WMG.O)opens new tab over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the Read more
ABA Journal “Musician Dustin Ballard has turned a spare room in his Dallas home into a soundproof studio. Inside are relics from another era: a ukulele, a fiddle, a smattering of 45s and an Edison phonograph. But when he sits down at his PC to make music, he’s immersed in Read more
The ABA Journal “Several legal novelists, including John Grisham and Scott Turow, are among 17 authors joining with the Authors Guild in a proposed class action lawsuit against the artificial intelligence program OpenAI. The Sept. 19 suit alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted work to train the chatbot ChatGPT, report Reuters, Read more