Copyright Lately

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Rights holders and AI advocates are both calling the Third Circuit’s Ross decision a win.

The first federal appeals court to examine fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS Intelligence.

Cyril Vetter’s new Supreme Court counsel says the worldwide-termination question should percolate.

Three weeks after a judge knocked out the heart of the Dem Bow lawsuit against Bad Bunny and much of the reggaetón industry, the plaintiffs want him to reconsider his reconsideration.

The court declines to adopt the server test’s fixation-based reasoning but reaches much the same result under a “transmit requirement” that adds a new permission question.

A music photographer says artist Elizabeth Peyton turned his photo of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher kissing into a painting, which sold at Sotheby’s for $1.92 million.

A federal court held that twelve of the Juan Antonio Corretjer poems Roy Brown set to music are in the public domain.

Six decades after the JFK assassination, a conspiracy book dragged the Zapruder film into a new copyright dispute.

The Crave copyright case was open and shut once a judge compared the books.

Five new amicus briefs urge the Supreme Court to undo the Fifth Circuit’s worldwide-reversion rule, warning it would sow international chaos while quietly stripping foreign creators of the very rights it claims to expand.

Reaction videos, reggaetón riddims, nine-year-old tweets, and a poet’s second loss to Taylor Swift.

Four major music companies bought into a disputed copyright, hired a Supreme Court heavyweight, and filed a cert petition arguing that the Fifth Circuit sent U.S. termination rights on an unauthorized world tour.

The Ninth Circuit granted en banc rehearing in Sedlik v.

Tentative reactions to a tentative ruling: court’s draft order would hand Twitch streamer Denims a fair use win in Ethan Klein’s reaction-video lawsuit, but the analysis it skipped could matter later.