What has become known as the “Sad Beige Lawsuit” ended on May 28, 2025, when influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford (“Gifford”) voluntarily dismissed all claims against fellow influencer Alyssa Sheil (“Sheil”)
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AI and Copyright: What a Recent Court Ruling Means for AI Creators and Intellectual Property Rights
In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming
Continue Reading AI and Copyright: What a Recent Court Ruling Means for AI Creators and Intellectual Property RightsThe First U.S. AI Copyright “Fair Use” Ruling Favors Copyright Owners
Yesterday, in the first U.S. ruling on the closely scrutinized question of fair use in the AI-related copyright litigation context, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bilbas, sitting in the U.S. District
Continue Reading The First U.S. AI Copyright “Fair Use” Ruling Favors Copyright OwnersCopyright Claims Board Stats
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) was established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act passed by Congress on December 27, 2020 and began accepting claims in June 2022. It
Continue Reading Copyright Claims Board StatsDevelopers’ Liability for Infringing Generative-AI Outputs
The advent of generative-AI tools has brought challenging questions of accountability to the forefront, especially when those tools generate content that may infringe on someone’s copyright. Determining liability—whether it falls
Continue Reading Developers’ Liability for Infringing Generative-AI OutputsSCOTUS Extends Copyright Damages
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion holding that the U.S. Copyright Act does not have a time limit for monetary recovery. That means that copyright owner can
Continue Reading SCOTUS Extends Copyright DamagesCopyright Smalls Claims Proceedings
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued a final rule amending the procedures for the still-new “small claims court” proceedings before the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) established last year that we
Continue Reading Copyright Smalls Claims ProceedingsArt or Infringement: The Copyright Battle Over Images of Prince
On Monday, March 28, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a copyright case about Andy Warhol’s artwork that will evaluate the scope of the fair use defense, which permits a
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New Copyright Claims Board
The quicker, streamlined, and less expensive method for resolving copyright infringement matters valued at under $30,000 will soon be available to copyright enforcers. Currently scheduled to begin hearing cases in
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U.S. Copyright Office Weighs in on the Right to Repair Digital Devices
The U.S. Copyright Office (“USCO”) is expanding the right to repair digital devices via exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”)’s rules governing access to devices and software, which
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