
House Administration Committee Holds Hearing on U.S. Copyright Office Modernization
On June 26, the Committee on House Administration held a hearing titled The U.S. Copyright Office: Customers, Communities, and Modernizations Efforts. The hearing featured Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and […]

Transparency in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Transparency is an essential element of an AI ecosystem that is developed and used in a responsible, respectful, and ethical manner. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has raised so many issues […]

May 2024 Roundup of Copyright News
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court was unusually busy with copyright cases, as were lower courts around the country. Here is a quick snapshot of some of copyright-related activities that […]

April 2024 Roundup of Copyright News
In April, the creative community celebrated World IP Day amid a flurry of copyright related activities. Congress was busy with a variety of copyright issues with an AI and authorship […]

Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works
Where and how should we draw the line between protectable and non-protectable AI-generated works? There is little doubt that most of the focus relating to the impact of artificial intelligence […]

March 2024 Roundup of Copyright News
In March, the courts remained extremely busy with a range of copyright cases including a final conclusion to a monumental fair use case. Here is a quick snapshot of those […]

February 2024 Roundup of Copyright News
In February, the courts remained extremely busy with the multitude of ongoing AI copyright cases while the Copyright Office continued to ramp up its modernization efforts. Here is a quick […]

Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part II
In part one of this blog, we looked at a number of photography and documentary film copyright cases that have been decided since the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith opinion was […]

Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part I
In May of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated fair use decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (referred to as Warhol throughout this blog). At the […]

January 2024 Roundup of Copyright News
In January, there was big copyright news coming out from the courts, including two final judgments entered by a court involving concessions of willful copyright infringement and forfeiture of the […]