It has already caught the attention of most copyright watchers that Judge Bibas of the District Court for the District of Delaware (3rd Circuit) reversed his own 2023 summary judgment ruling in the copyright AI case Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence. Thompson, which owns the legal research database Westlaw, sued Ross for copyright infringement after the latter built its competitive ...
Two bills are back in motion in the U.S. Congress—the AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act, and the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA). As I argued in a post for The Hill last May, if the first bill is to become law, then the second bill should also become law. While the AM radio provision arguably has some public-serving benefits, ...
The so-called “copyright war” began years before I joined the fight, arguably in 1999, when defenders of the P2P platform Napster equated music piracy with liberty. Thus, rather than a rational discussion about the interdependence of creators and technology, Big Tech cultivated a syncretic foundation from which to sell the paradox that devaluing individual rights was somehow good for democracy. ...
“Where AI merely assists an author in the creative process, its use does not change the copyrightability of the output. At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by AI, it cannot be protected by copyright.” – Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2, Copyrightability, USCO – Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of a planned three-part ...
“One might expect a 140-year history of Supreme Court precedent would have led to a grant of summary judgment below, sparing everyone unnecessary time and money,” states the brief for Jeffrey Sedlik to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. “Copyright infringement should have been decided by the district court as a matter of law, not at trial by a poorly-instructed ...
